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Re: Tasratal alphabet, website

From:Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
Date:Tuesday, November 6, 2001, 2:48
On Monday, November 5, 2001, at 02:44 , Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:

> Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> writes: > >> Anyway: >> >> http://pegasus.cityofveils.com/tasratal.phtml >> >> There's a .gif with the alphabet and another .gif at the bottom showing >> the "to find happiness, one should not seek it" translation written in >> the >> "native" and less-than-a-week-old alphabet. ^_^ > > Great! A beautiful script, very elegant and appealing. One of the best > designs I have ever seen! I like the way it reflects phonetic features > in the letter shapes, and combines consonant and vowel letters into > syllbale units, and that even clearer than Korean. This is what I > always wanted to design (and will certainly design some day)!
Thank you very much! :-) (I always hated the fact that vowels could go in one of two positions in Korean. Then again, considering the alphabet's advantages, I shouldn't complain.) I look forward to seeing your own alphabet designs in the future. ^_^ Yoon Ha Lee [requiescat@cityofveils.com] http://pegasus.cityofveils.com 100,000 lemmings can't be wrong.