Re: [lostlangs] Re: Hairo Script Brainstorming

On Sun, 4 Jul 2004 10:44:23 -0000, Christian Thalmann <cinga@...> wrote:

>
> Ah, good points, everyone.  Hairo was mainly found carved in
> stone, where grain doesn't matter, embossed in metal, and
> later written with brush and pen.  I also envisaged a style
> of writing in wood where one would drive a metal edge into
> the material with a hammer.  I wonder whether that wouldn't
> split the wood too much, though.
>
Depends on the type of wood and how hard you drive the wedge in ;).

Stone is easier to carve curved lines, but i believe the burmese
script descends from a square form of the script, which later evolved
into the regularly circular script.

The one example of copperplate writing from the Philippines, the
Laguna copperplate inscription (which is apparently not a forgery,
last i read), was written by hammering small indentations into the
copper using an iron stylus and hammer. Each letter is a series of
indentations. I can only imagine how long that took, since the script
is pretty long (and in kawi script).