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

En réponse à Javier BF :


>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?
Well, one of my first conlangs had a cyrillic-inspired alphabet with three 
cases. The middle case looked very much like the small one but bigger, and 
the capitals were much more ornate. I guess I must have been inspired by 
lettrines :)) . However, I don't remember how the three cases were used :(( .

BTW, how would you call the middle case? "mediuscule"? (would fit in 
French, which has "majuscule" and "minuscule" :)) )

On the other hand, Maggel doesn't have case (it's written in a form of 
Uncial). However, it makes that up by having an Arabic-like system of 
connecting and non-connecting letters, and more opaque ligatures than you 
can ever imagine ;))) . And it exists only in cursive form ;) .


>OTOH, is your system of punctuation marks more complete/accurate
>than that of Roman script, which hardly differentiates between
>several semantically relevant intonations?
I remember when I invented Chasmäöcho to mess up the punctuation system on 
purpose (as well as diacritics. The two tremas indicate stress, and are put 
on both vowels because those form a diphtongue :))) ). For instance, ; 
indicates questions (like in Greek, but in Chasmäöcho you need to put on in 
front and one after the question), : exclamations (same distribution as ;), 
, (the comma) is used as we use the full stop, except that the question and 
exclamation marks don't dispense you from using it, etc... ;)))

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang. 

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