Re: notelangs

That's an idea I hadn't considered when I was designing my own informal
"ohmygosh in college the professors talk VERY fast" speedwriting system.
There are about a half dozen characters that I write faster in Cyrillic than
any Roman characters.  If I ever get to grad school I'll have to keep that
idea in my head.

I have a question about alphabets... it seems to me that there's nothing new
under the sun when it comes to alphabets and even writing systems in
general, and it's rather depressing.  I've given up temporarily on writing
my own scripts because the best I can do is (apparently) reinvent either
Arabic or Korean.  I suspect if I weren't so dead-set against using things
that look like English or Latin, I'd have reinvented the Roman alphabet as
well.  Does anyone have any suggestions for new or exotic ways of thinking
about writing systems, beyond the poring over dictionary and encyclopedia
entries that I've already done?

Sarah Marie Parker-Allen
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"There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even
though the end may be dark."
-- J.R.R. Tolkien

> -----Original Message-----
> Behalf Of Eamon Graham
>
> I've also been known to use cyrillic, runic and old Irish (roman,
> not ogham) letters for various abbreviations.
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