Re: Vowel "colors" and chromoglyhs (Re: Synaesthesia)

Great idea, Danny!  But I pity one of your people, stranded here with just a
pencil and a white piece of paper!  What marvelous inks they must devise.
And how expensive the art of writing would be!

Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net
Eskkoat ol ai sendran, rohsan nuehra celyil takrem bomai nakuo.
"My shadow follows me, putting strange, new roses into the world."



----- Original Message -----
From: "Danny Wier" <dawier@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 3:36 PM
Subject: Vowel "colors" and chromoglyhs (Re: Synaesthesia)


> A thought just came to me. (That happens occasionally.) A long time ago, I
> was toying with the idea of a syllabry, where the shape of each letter
> representing the consonant while the *color* of that consonant represents
> the associated vowel. I wanted a type of "spectrum" where the front high
> (I-type) vowels were at one end and the front back (U-type) vowels were at
> the other. Since red is the lowest frequency and purple is the highest,
> maybe red could be /i/ and purple /u/. The center of the spectrum, green,
> represents /a/. Yellow is /E/, orange /e/, blue-green /O/, blue /o/.
>
> Black would represent either the high central vowels /i-/ or /u-/ (barred
> letters), or a consonant without a vowel. Gray could be the schwa /@/. But
> how would front rounded vowels or back unrounded vowels be represented?
>
> ~Danny~
>
> "What do we do when it's all been said, no new ideas in the house and
every
> book has been read?" -- Bono
>
>

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