Re: Got an idea

On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 19:29:15 -0500, Matt Arriola <azathoth500@...>
wrote:

> I read about someone (on this list?) converting their conscript into
> cuneiform, and then eventually turning it into a kind of shorthand.
That would be me, for Thagojian.

> I tried this for myself and this is what I got:
Here is the first line of Beowulf in Thagojian Demotic...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v169/darthspacey/beowulf1.gif

I don't know whether I'm going to apply a second round of "evolution" to
the script, to simplify it even further. I guess a thousand-ish years pass
between the pure cuneiform phase and the start of texts in the Hellenistic
script (based on Greek/Coptic/Hebrew)...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v169/darthspacey/thagojian.png




Paul