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Re: writing system

From:bob thornton <arcanesock@...>
Date:Monday, January 3, 2005, 21:24
--- 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. ===== -The Sock "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Send a seasonal email greeting and help others. Do good. http://celebrity.mail.yahoo.com