Re: KuJomu - the writing

Tim May wrote:

>  > Feedback, please!
>
> It's pretty.
Thank you :)

> Not the kind of script form I generally like - too many
> spiky straight lines
You know, it actually has too  many straight lines for me, too.  But it just
happened that way :\

> and not enough unity among the characters
Actually, a lot of the ones that probably look like individual characters are
actually two or even three characters together.  It reads left to right, but
also up to down or down to up, depending on the context.  They're supposed to
all fit together somehow; I think it looks pretty cool when I actually take the
time and make it all good.

> but
> in the mass it has a certain undeniable charm.  I wish more scripts
> were presented with long examples like this.  A well-informed choice
> of text, too...  That said, I'd like to see a list of canonical
> character-forms and their meanings
Me too.  I haven't come up with a satisfactory (to me) way to present the
"alphabet" yet.  I haven't written it all down since before it was complete
(*many* years ago), and even then I kept realizing that I had forgotten one and
having to append it.  I caught some of the thread on how everybody was doing
their "alphabet" but for a completely phonetic language it just doesn't seem to
apply.. I mean, there is no "A", per se, but several different A-sounds...
where/how to even start?  I think I've got at least 55 characters, but I'm not
sure.

Another downside is I've never come up with a numeral system (characters for
numbers? I don't know what to call it) I liked, either.  I tried borrowing some
from Arabic for a while but they didn't seem to fit well.

> and examples of calligraphic and
> printed styles.  The last isn't something you can produce quickly, of
> course.
Ah, I *do* like my formal writing.  I came up with it one day when I needed
something to write on and couldn't find anything but a paper plate.  All formal
documents in this culture are written in circles, from inside out.  There isn't
really a script vs. printed version, though.  I toyed around with the idea
awhile ago - I really wanted to make something that went from top to bottom or
*anything* different than left to right, but nothing satisfied.  So - that's the
boring extent of it; laterally left-to-right normally, and circles for formal
docs.

I guess I could scan a plate... gotta find something else to translate.

Thanks for looking :)

-G