Re: Colored Scripts

Patrick Jarrett wrote:
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> Has anyone ever heard of a script which incorporated colors?
Well, I have had the idea too a while back, but it is still on the shelf. I
wrote something about it in the chapter of the lecture notes for David's
conlang class (the lucky bastard, getting paid to teach conlanging). I could
imagine a culture where a certain set of dyes are readily available, using
them as a distinguishing element in the script. Though I would be careful
not to use color to indicate any low-level significance, such as phonemic
value oslt. It would be a pain picking a new color for each letter. But you
could change color at the syllable/word/morpheme level or better yet, at the
level of a sentence. Different color could be used for different tones,
emphasis/stress, word functions, sentence functions (questions in red,
exclamations in blue etc).

Maarten

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