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> Van: Paul Bennett <Paul.Bennett@...>
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> Onderwerp: Re: Keyboard Remapping in Win 3.1 & 95
> Datum: woensdag 6 oktober 1999 10:54
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> Rob writes:
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> Van: Roland Hoensch <hoensch@...>
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> Onderwerp: Keyboard Remapping in Win 3.1 & 95
> Datum: woensdag 6 oktober 1999 8:31
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> > Has anyone tried to invent a script anything like Hangul?=20
Coincidentally
> it happens to be an invented script. Invented by some > Korean King wh=
o
> wanted people to be able to read and write more easily.
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> I am very much intrigued by Maya hieroglyphs. They have about the same
> thing: symbols (for syllables) are placed together to form a block. I
> wanted to make something like that: words existing of one form that has
> encoded all sounds of that word, but I never succeeded. Gladilatian has
> something like that (I have no URL) : one form per syllable.
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> Mayan is surely more like Egyptian (or maybe old Chinese), if anything
else.
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> One thing I note about syllabaries is that the possible syllable
structure is
> generally very simple, usually somthing like CV, C(y)V or C(w)V. The
number
> (and nature) of C's is also pretty "manageable", (less than a dozen,
often stops
> and one or two nasals). Mayan looks to have a large number of disyllab=
ic
signs,
> and a far larger number of phonemes than Korean, Japanese, Cretan and s=
o
forth.
> Mayan also looks to use a lot of rebus signs and other visual and
auditory
> punning, as well as ideographic determinatives. Also, IIRC, Mayan uses
> dirrerent glyphs to differentiate some homophones.
The best book on this is Michael Coe's "Breaking the Maya code". It is
great because it tells exactly how words are build up and the way Coe
writes, it looks like the deciphering was like an adventure =E0 la Indian=
a
Jones.
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> Hence, to my mind, it seems more like a particularly imaginative
"variant" of
> the Egyptian system.
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> Just my 0.02,
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> Paul
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