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Re: SCript

From:Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
Date:Thursday, May 30, 2002, 20:21
At 1:38 pm -0500 29/5/02, Peter Clark wrote:
>On Tuesday 28 May 2002 15:13, Balazs Sudar wrote: >> I thought about a language - still not invented - based on the >> triconsonantal system. What's more important is the idea of its script. I >> had the idea of a script, that describes the triconsonantal roots, and has >> 1 sign for the row of vowels put between the consonants.
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> One thing I like about this list is that it provides so many useful >distractions from the tyrany of pressing distractions,
Amen :)
> *cough* Well, no one seems to have responded, so I might as well.
Oh dear - I meant too {deep blush} ----------------------------------------------------------------- At 3:09 am +0200 30/5/02, =?iso-8859-2?Q?a=2E=20koch?= wrote:
>I tried something like that, actually have it all sitting around here
{sigh} Is nothing new? :) I've thought of similar system on & off over the years; I've even considered - because it cuts down on the need for vowel signs - such a system for BrSc! But it never got as developed as that of =?iso-8859-2?Q?a=2E=20koch?= (aka Aleks) ------------------------------------------------------------------- At 6:33 pm -0400 29/5/02, Steg Belsky wrote: [snip]
> >It sounds interesting... so for instance, if Hebrew were to be written >with this script, the word |dibeir| would be written something like >|#dbr|, where the |#| represents "put a |i| between the first two >consonants and a |ei| between the last two"?
Exactly! At least, that's what I've had in mind & what I understood Balazs to mean.
>Sounds very interesting...
Yes, it is; and what might be interesting would be to develop a writing system where the tri-consonantal combo is written as one symbol, thus each word would have just two symbols: one denoting the vowel pattern + one denoting the triconsonantal combo. I wonder what one would call such a script? :) But to return to Balazs....
> ................. Do you think this thing has a > sense?????
Yes!
> I'd like the people who know arabic, hebrew, or any of these > languages to tell me some opinions... Maybe it's too difficult to be > useful.
My knowledge of Hebrew and Arabic is too meagre to foresee all the pitfalls. But I was never one to be put off by difficulty (quite the reverse, in fact). Please continue, Balazs, otherwise this will be "yet another project for when I retire" ;) Ray. ======================================================= Speech is _poiesis_ and human linguistic articulation is centrally creative. GEORGE STEINER. =======================================================

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