Re: A New Conlang For Your Consideration
From: | John Quijada <jq_ithkuil@...> |
Date: | Saturday, January 24, 2004, 18:29 |
Rhiemeier wrote:
>This is amazingly complex, on a par with Rick Morneau's
>_Lexical Semantics_. The script looks a bit like Klingon drawn
>with a ruler.
Yes, the superficial resemblance to Klingon is intentional. I've always
loved the look of Klingon piqaD but always hated the fact that it was used
by everyone as a boring old alphabet. What I wanted was to combine a
Klingon-esque look with the mutational principles of the Ethiopic and
Brahmi scripts, not to create a syllabry like those two scripts, but rather
to use the character mutations to convey grammatical information, hence
a "morpho-phonemic" script.
Also, thanks for the comparison to Rick Morneau's work. I only discovered
his page this week and it is amazing. Wish I'd seen it earlier, he has
some very elegant solutions to grammatical problems I struggled with for
years.