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Interesting idea on materials. I guess Rune is shaped so as it was mainly carved in wood with a simple knife. Would the Eastern scripts have made the jump to p
by ljf 6y ago
Interesting idea on materials. I guess Rune is shaped so as it was mainly carved in wood with a simple knife.
Would the Eastern scripts have made the jump to paper or similar mediums sooner?
- jjtheblunt 6y agoOur Germanic linguistics professor (Elmer Antonsen in Urbana) had taught us the characters for runes were also optimized to consider the grain of the wood, for writing on wood.
- laszlokorte 6y agoIn german "letter" (the symbol) is "Buchstabe" which is based on "Buche"(beech, a kind of tree/wood) and "Stab" (stick). So "Buchstabe" means "wooden stick(s)".
- jjtheblunt 6y agoStab has an English cognate in "staff", same meaning you wrote.
- trianglem 6y agoI tried to come up with my own alphabet once. If you stick with the simplest possibilities you end up with an alphabet very similar to runes or the number system used by certain monasteries. A line with a cross line in various iterations etc.