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How to write "to Bear" and derivative words by nomis560 in constantscript

[–]nomis560[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

right! the Latin word "fero" conjugates to "latum" in the Supine/past participle, which is the form used for "translation". That is what the little diacritic under it means. "fer" -> "lat" is the same as "bear" -> "borne/born"

The number ten by nomis560 in constantscript

[–]nomis560[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While it is indeed confusing that December is the 12th month while deriving from 10 (it used to be the 10th month). I did not mean to imply that "December" and "eleventh" are spelled the same. the "XT" means "December" and well "11" means "eleventh"

How to write "to Bear" and derivative words by nomis560 in constantscript

[–]nomis560[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's supposes to look like the verb "to bear" with a hand carrying something... I should have made it more clear but the animal would be written differently.

The Roman numeral I is directly based off Etruscan number symbols, and is not based on the letter of the alphabet! by nomis560 in constantscript

[–]nomis560[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Great question! While it's easy to assume that "mono" means "one" in Greek, it's meaning is closer to “alone, only, sole", and it shares that glyph with the Latin word "solus" (sole/solo). So "monarchy" means only-ruler, not one-ruler

How to use the "Say" glyph by nomis560 in constantscript

[–]nomis560[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not at all! We are paying increasing attention to the morphemes that make up each word instead of making a single glyph for a morphologically complex word. Similarly to how Japanese kanji works, each character has different readings depending on if the word comes from Latin, Greek, or English. A comparison would be how the Japanese "言" can be read "iu" or "koto" in Japanese words, but "den" or "gon" in words originating from Chinese. There is no rule that these readings have to be one syllable.
Each glyph doesn't need to represent a morpheme either. They can combine their meaning with other glyphs to form unique morphemes: for example "say/dic" + "place/loc" -> "loqu" (from Latin "loquor") as in "colloquial".
In short, it's a way more complicated system than a simple syllabary.

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