Re: Too complex scripts (was: Re: McGuffey Readers and animals)

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 18:25:55 +0100, Carsten Becker
<naranoieati@...> wrote:

>
> Hehe, yes. Barry's brainchild is a leaf script with holes in
> it for indicating vowels. I've never seen a longer example
> of it, though. Is there one, Barry? BTW, this thread was
> actually about "McGuffey Readers and animals"!!!!! Dammit!
Pah, McGuffey's readers is old hat, my man :)

I never made a longer example of the leaf script, mostly because i'd
run out of time to make one up when I had created that script. I might
have to take it back up again though.
>
> Look at all those nifty scripts like Malayalam/Tamil,
> Java/Balinese, Thai/Khmer, or even Chinese. Those ones are
> very complex actually, concerning either the system or the
> letters or both, but are still used. The Javanese and
> Balinese scripts have been replaced by the Latin script
> according to Omniglot, though.
That's true, and that's my point, a script, even when used for natural
languages doesn't always necessarily get "simplified". Many actually
become more eomplex (like many of the Indic scripts have compared to
their ancestral Brahmi).

I think taking up of the Latin script is more because it's easier to
communicate with the world when your language is written in an
alphabet a lot of the world already uses. Plus it's easier to use
Latin letters with computers as well.





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