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.
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