Re: writing system

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.

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