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It would be nice to have some example words and sentences because I can't quite picture how the vowels look.
by snthpy 2y ago
It would be nice to have some example words and sentences because I can't quite picture how the vowels look.
- tcsenpai 2y agoI am in the process of trying to understand how to make a font with diacritics. Meanwhile here is an handwritten example. Note how the vowels can be put in different ways as long as they keep their positions. Also forgive my terrible handwriting. https://imgur.com/a/AAa2m53 https://imgur.com/a/AAa2m53 Anyway, let me try: Let's say you have a upside triangle which is an "L" and you want to write "le" (because why not). You draw the triangle and then you draw just below the triangle the "e" symbol. You can decide if to make it linked to the shape above (sort like a bubble coming out from the bottom in this case) or to keep them separated (so it would be a sort of smiling mouth under the triangle).
- withinboredom 2y agoI don’t know man. Since the invention of pens/pencils, language has gravitated towards not lifting the pencil. It looks like I can write that in cursive in about 2 seconds. In other words, in the same amount of time it takes for me to draw a really shitty triangle, I can have written an entire word.
- hliyan 2y agoSee my sibling reply. This is true of my native script. It started off with straight lines a couple of millennia ago (when stone tablets were used), but when writing moved to palm leaves (http://www.natlib.lk/collections/olaleaf.php http://www.natlib.lk/collections/olaleaf.php), the script gradually became rounded because the sharp stylus used to tear the leaf.
- bmacho 2y agoInteresting. Probably it was indeed the case for a period of time that not lifting your quill was fast. I am not sure that for ball pens or pencils, not lifting has any advantage.
- withinboredom 2y ago> I am not sure that for ball pens or pencils, not lifting has any advantage. You already know the answer if you've ever written anything quickly by hand: it has significant advantages.
- bmacho 2y agoNo. Not for me.
- mlok 2y agoAlso, drawing angles breaks the flow and speed of writing. Back in university, I remember replacing squares checkboxes by circles because it was faster to draw. (And a friend copying me when he noticed it) All those angles seem painful to write by hand.
- tcsenpai 2y agoTotally true. Indeed the goal of creating a conscript, at least for me, is to have fun and be able to keep something like a journal that would look funny and "cryptic" at a quick glance. Maybe one day I will manage to create a cursive that is also nice to see and easy to remember : )
- hliyan 2y agoYou might find my native language, Sinhala, quite interesting: https://www.omniglot.com/writing/sinhala.htm https://www.omniglot.com/writing/sinhala.htm E.g. ක ka කි ki කු ku කෙ ke කො ko
- tcsenpai 2y agoLooking at it, and also long live omniglot!
- jdtig 2y agoMany writing systems of Southeast Asia borrowed this idea and work quite similarly as a result. Here's Burmese, which also writes vowels on all four sides of the consonant they follow: ကာ - ka ကီ - ki ကူ - ku ကေ - ke ကို - ko ကော - kaw
- hliyan 2y agoRemarkable similarities there!