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

From: "Sally Caves" <scaves@...>

[this is about my "color vowel" syllabry proposal]

> 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!
It would if you're talking about writing on paper. I'm thinking a
computer-based script. And a method for writing a language in a traditional
consonants-only setting, like Old Hebrew, Ugaritic, Old South Arabian. That
would work with a type of shape-based syllabry like Canadian, rather than
pointing symbols in different directions.

This would be a major problem for the color-blind, however.

Now that I do remember it, there's a language in Africa (?) that uses a
multi-colored writing system!

~Danny~

"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups." -- George
Carlin