Re: SCript

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.
[snip]
>        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}
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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)
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At 6:33 pm -0400 29/5/02, Steg Belsky wrote:
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>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.



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