beautiful scripts (was Re: Data and Musings...)

In a message dated 02.10.2001 12:52:28 AM, amber@OJNK.NET writes:

>It reminds me a little of Khmer, which is another script I like a whole lot.
>
>On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 09:33:52AM +0200, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>> Indeed, that's a beautiful script! But how can you write that, let alone
read
>> that at normal speed?!! The letters look to intricated and similar to be
>> writing as they are in normal handwriting! Probably a hell difficult to
read
>> and write! :)
    Incidentally, I have been discussin' linguistics with my father. We were
just talkin' about scripts/alphabets/etc. & he mentioned that the Burmese and
Malayalam systems look related. He might be onto something there, eh?
    He likened them to "bug-writing" LMAO not bugs writing, but writing with
bugs!!! ::has mental image of a multi-spectacled wizened old man writing with
emerald dragonflies, opalescent black beetles, etc.::
    My dad also said that long ago - when he was a design student in London -
he tried to re-design the Roman alphabet much like I tried to do when I was
in the third grade in Houston, Texas.
    Both of us had the aim to make it easier to write block-letters faster:
he 'cause he was an industrial designer (& that all good designers re-design
EVERYTHING anyways), me 'cause I had a serious aversion to cursive writing
(slice of my life: "Hey Teach, why do I hafta learn cursive when I will be
told to 'Please Print' the rest of my bloody life? I just got through
learnin' how to print this Roman alphabet stuff!" "Mister Chang, go to the
principal's office im-media-tely!!!" ... cut to principal's office: "Ah,
Mister Chang, again..." "Yepyep.")

    I still print :P~ *thPttt*

    czHANg

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