Re: writing system

--- Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> wrote:

> Hallo!
>
> On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 04:31:53 -0500,
> Geoff Horswood <geoffhorswood@...> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 04:59:33 -0800, B. Garcia
> <madyaas@...> wrote:
> >
> > >On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 06:24:27 -0600, Thomas R. Wier
> <trwier@...>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >> IMHO, the most beautiful script is Tengwar;
> second thereto being only
> > >> Georgian mkhedruli. I don't know where Tolkien
> got his inspiration, but
> > >> there are eery resemblances in shape and
> sometimes in value to mkhedruli:
> > >> Sindarin <s> is almost identical to mkhedruli
> _sani_, and the whole feel
> > >> of the alphabet is similar.
> > >>
> > >
> > >While _I_ on the other hand find tengwar pretty,
> but not nearly as
> > >beautiful as the many forms of Arabic, or grass
> script Chinese. I also
> > >tend to prefer Indic style scripts as well
> (evidenced by my Kuraw)
> >
> > I actually don't think much of the Tengwar script.
>  It always makes me
> > wonder what the dyslexia rate among elves is!  All
> the letters look far too
> > similar for it to feel very comfortable.
>
> Yes, this is indeed a drawback of Tengwar.  Most of
> the letters look
> all too similar.  This is something not easy to
> avoid when designing
> featural alphabets.  Most of my earlier designs for
> featural alphabets
> suffered from the same problem.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Jörg.
>
I once did a featural script, but put all the
'features' as diacritics. Including vowel features. It
was interesting, and not hard to read for me.

=====
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