Re: Kuraw - Handwritten

Barry Garcia wrote:


>>One other thing: I guess kuraw COULD be written alphabetically, as there
>is that possibility, but you'd be using the vowel killer diacritic a
lot....

No, you wouldn't have to.  Once the vowel diacritics become "letters" in
their own write ;-), the consonant chars. would lose their intrinsic vowel.
This is attested in the history of the Kash script, which started out
exactly like Kuraw. So from an original state of e.g. "l-o p(a) t-i"
'lopati' vs. "l-o p(a) t\" 'lopat', you might pass thru a stage
"l-o-p-a-t-i" vs. "l-o-p-a-t\", but eventually people would figure out that
the killer is no longer necessary.  You might have to introduce w/y symbols
to take care of situations like "kuraw" written k-u-r-(aw) vs. suffixed
?kurawi, but maybe not.

Kash incidentally still harks back to the old syllabary in abbreviations:  L
K Ho e.g. stands for "Landiñ Kaçili Holunda" 'Bank of the Holundan People'.
>which would lead to something unappealing to a Saalangal.
>I'm REALLY happy
>with how kuraw looks in "type" and in hand writing, that i really do think
>i'll use it for tattoos :).
A while back there was a young guy at my gym who, from a distance and
without my glasses, seemed to have an interesting band-tattoo on his biceps.
Not your usual barbed wire or tribal.  As I squinted and moved closer, it
was clearly a script of some sort; it began to look like Devanagari, but
when I finally got close it was Hebrew, enclosed in some baroque squiggles,
and he said it was the word for "power".  I almost said "Funny, you don't
look Jewish" but thought better of it.  Given the ethnic background of
almost everyone in Holland MI., far more likely he could be a Dutch Reformed
seminarian.......

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