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Re: Colored Scripts

From:Padraic Brown <agricola@...>
Date:Sunday, January 20, 2002, 19:42
Am 19.01.02, Adam Walker yscrifef:

> Though I never worked out the native writing for B-G-2-3, I do know it uses > colors. There are basic shapes to represent the patterns and then colors to > represent to color used in that pattern. It seems like writing would be a > pain -- having to pick up a different brush, pen, whatever for every letter. > I think *this* script was only used in ecclesiastical texts. The everyday > script would have to symbolically represent the colors too.
Kind of reminiscent of "red letter" bibles and missals; where Jesus's words are all in red. Everything else is in black.
> Adam
Padraic. -- Gwerez dah, chee gwaz vaz, ha leal.