Re: My conscript

On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, H. S. Teoh wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 09:44:04AM -0400, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> [snip]
> > While I never know how an alphabet looks until I see a writing sample
> > (the *original* Chevraqis script looked fine in design until I wrote it
> > vertically and discovered it looked yucky vertically as opposed to
> > horizontally), I like the shapes.  How did you get the shapes to come out
> > so regularly?  My own motor control is lousy with my art tablet.  :-p
>
> Heh. Those shapes were painfully hand-crafted using a *pixel* editor --
> drawn pixel-by-pixel!! They'd *better* come out good, for the amount of
> effort I put into them. :-) I know there are easier ways to do it, but,
> being the perfectionist that I am, I want to make sure every last detail
> is done right. :-P
<rueful look>  I've given up in perfection in art.  I've drawn things by
pixel in the past and it's too frustrating to someone who's used to ink,
pencil and pen.

> > Looks nice.  Only other comment I have is that semi-dyslexic (well, not
> > "for real," but I might as well be) may confuse letters with their
> > up-down mirror images.  This is sometimes problematic in Korean as well,
> > since nearly *all* the vowels are rotations of 90k degrees from one set,
> > and it can be confusing, especially if you're not awake.
>
> True, true. There *is* a systematic (well, kinda) mnemonic for the vowel
> symbols, though. Once you learn the mnemonic, it shouldn't be *that* hard
> to figure it out. Though, yeah, it still can be easily misread sometimes,
Well, it's not so much the existence of a mnemonic than the sheer visual
resemblances.  I regularly misread Korean vowels because of this, though
at any given point I can self-correct, list them all for you, etc.
Hopefully the people of Ferrochromon (?) are less quasi-dyslexic than I.

YHL