Re: [lostlangs] Re: Hairo Script Brainstorming

At 13:14 7/4/2004, Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:

>>While I like the look, I didn't think, as a rule, Runes were allowed to
>>have both vertical and horizontal lines. Something about engraving into
>>wood, I understand.
>
>That's right.  The cut lines have to run either straight
>or diagonally across the wood fibres.  Cuts that go in
>the same directions as the wood fibres will actually only
>be depressions between the wood fibres, and will disappear
>if the wood swells.
I should have added that this isn't a huge problem tho.
In Germanic runes the form
     ____
    |    |
    |    |
    |    |
    |    |

appears in inscriptions on metal as a variant of

    |\  /|
    | \/ |
    |    |
    |    |

which occurs in other inscriptions.  You get the idea!

At 18:41 7/4/2004, Erich Rickheit KSC wrote:
>I certainly like the look of these letters. I think they suffer
>from the same problem as do Tolkien's letters, as do many featural
>writing systems.  Letters that represent similar sounds resemble
>each other closely;
Yeah, better throw a piece of paper with one sign on each into a
hat, mix well and pull out randomly to assign to phonemes!



/BP 8^)
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