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Re: Glyphica Arcana Page

From:Jefferson Wilson <jeffwilson63@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 21, 2005, 17:05
Paul Bennett wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 00:16:19 -0500, Jefferson Wilson > <jeffwilson63@...> wrote: > >> Just wondering if anyone has looked at my Glyphica Arcana page at >> http://www.meanspc.com/~jeff_wilson63/myths/BabelTarot.html >> >> I haven't received any feedback from this list and comments are >> definitely appreciated. > > Do you have an inclusive OR as well as an exlusive OR, i.e. a marker for > > (A AND B) OR (A OR B)
Overlap the 'and' and 'or' conjunctions: A AND/OR B It looks like I forgot to mention that markers are _intended_ to be overlapped like this. It's one of the design constraints that I struggled with when I developed the different markers.
> I imagine it's a sememe found more often than some people would > realise. For instance, in > > Do you have a lighter, or some matches? > > the answer would not be expected to be "No" if I had both a lighter and > matches. There are other logical conjunctions which could potentially > be useful, I imagine especially so in magical texts, which I rather > suspect could become quite algorithmic in nature, given the right > system of magic. > > Also, I'd recommend more, simpler examples. There's a lot of > information to take in at once there.
Any recommendations? (The basic problem being that I need sufficient "real-world" translations to both make sure that the system won't fail unexpectedly and to figure out what sort of translations are needed.)
> Also also, you could find yourself boxed into a corner if you didn't > think out in advance very carefully what you wanted to write. That's a > potential criticism of every 2D writing system with branching, though, > so don't take it personally.
Well, this system can be laid out in one dimension if you want, and there will be such an example eventually. It's the two-dimensional layouts where things are most likely to break down though, and thus the ones I've been concentrating on. -- Jefferson http://www.picotech.net/~jeff_wilson63/myths/