Re: writing system

On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 22:33:00 +0100, Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...>
wrote:

> 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.
Wouldn't the Arabic script have this "drawback" much more prominently? And
of course most of the northern American "syllabaries". I mean, this doesn't
really seem to be a problem for a script to be used in the real world, so
why should it be a problem for fictional scripts?



On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 05:21:48 -0800, B. Garcia <madyaas@...> wrote:

>Also with Hangul,
>the saving grace is that brush writing forced assymetry on some of the
>glyphs.
From what I know, this was only a secondary development, the original
characters being strictly geometrical. According to the Hangul-article on
Wikipedia: an "old legend holds that King Sejong visualized the written
characters after studying an intricate lattice".

gry@s:
j. 'mach' wust