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

From:Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...>
Date:Thursday, May 27, 2004, 8:59
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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