Re: Latin mxedruli, or do we really need capital and small letters?

Staving Ray Brown:
>On Wednesday, May 26, 2004, at 09:50 AM, Peter Bleackley wrote:
>
>>Staving Javier BF:
>>>[Danny Wier]
>>>
>>> > > 1) If your conlangs are written in two-case
>>> > > alphabets/abjads/syllabries, what are the rules?
>>>
>>>It just occurred to me: Could a case be made for a higher-
>>>than-two-case system, say, a three-case system with uppercase,
>>>lowercase and 'middlecase'?  Come to think of it, in a way
>>>that's what we actually have already... counting small caps!
>>>Any idea for a four-case system?
>>
>>I've got an idea for a six-case system
>>Sentence-initial
>>Word-initial
>>Medial
>>Word-final
>>Sentence-final
>>Proper Names.
>
>Yikes - no paragraph-initial and no paragraph-final cases!! You'll have to
>use white space!
>
>Yep - what gain is there in this except that you'll be able to write whole
>paragraphs without white spaces? But IMO it's main effect will be to
>increase the burden on learners of the language (and possibly make reading
>more difficult).
The purpose is to make the writing system as cursive as possible. It's
written boustrophedon on wax tablets with a stylus, and one only lifts the
stylus from the tablet at the end of the paragraph. It's intended for yagh
tyalpy tyubvul, an isolating language. I do not inflict my writing systems
with such auxlangy design criteria as ease of learning!

Pete

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