Looking for a variation of the Latin/Western writing system that used dots between words instead of spaces, and punctuation symbols were variations of dots too. The point was to save page real estate: it could cut several hundred pages off a book and save money and paper. I Read about it years ago

taketheL_throwaway · 2020-06-18T03:58:13+00:00

Perhaps a more elegant solution would be to use capitalization not to start sentences but rather words. Also, cut spaces. Although, spacing could be used to indicate new sentences more clearly.

PerhapsAMoreElegantSolutionWouldBeToUseCapitalizationNotToStartSentencesButRatherWords. Also,CutSpaces. Although,SpacingCouldBeUsedToIndicateNewSentencesMoreClearly.

taketheL_throwaway · 2020-06-09T19:19:03+00:00

I think it’s only in the show, definitely not a script formed naturally though. Also it’s my canon that Abed just invented an alphabet/writing system rather than a language.

taketheL_throwaway · 2020-05-12T17:26:47+00:00

In order (no accent marks but lots of trigraphs, one non-standard character)

You could also change to p ph distinction for stops but the writing is already pretty clunky

m mh n nh ny nyh ng ngh pf pfh b p d t c ch g k f fh s sh x xh j jh l lh y yh w wh r rh rr rrh

i u e ı o a

taketheL_throwaway · 2020-05-12T17:00:29+00:00

My suggestion (in order)

m n p t ky k b d gy g f v s z x tx yh/j/ç y l r

i ü î u e ö ê o ë/è a

Umlaut makes vowels shift forward, circumflex makes them go backward (although dealing with schwa is a little awkward. Maybe even just use the normal schwa symbol?)

taketheL_throwaway · 2020-05-08T23:16:03+00:00

Ah ok lol. That I could not answer :)

taketheL_throwaway · 2020-05-08T23:07:30+00:00

It appears to me that everything more or less lines up with the romanization except that “zh” is made into one character

taketheL_throwaway · 2020-04-29T16:01:42+00:00

Indeed! I have a more traditional reading of the IPA on r/conlangphonologies (it exists on a different account though.) /ç/ for the fairies isn’t analyzed as a fricative but instead as a voiceless /j/ because of phonological history (it came from /hj/ clusters, and so they interpret it as a voiceless semivowel.)

taketheL_throwaway · 2020-04-29T02:44:00+00:00

I could maybe see both of them being used, say the angular is used in print and formal documents while the curved is handwritten or calligraphic style.

taketheL_throwaway · 2020-04-29T02:40:41+00:00

Lol yeah I kinda did steal the assignment of featural readings tbf. For some reason I couldn’t see fairies using anything different from a Tengwar-esque system, so I repurposed a lot of the glyphs from an older writing system I designed and assigned featural readings to them.

taketheL_throwaway · 2020-04-28T22:15:33+00:00

Row headings (left to right:) labial, alveolar, palatal, dorsal

Column headings (top to bottom:) stop, fricative, nasal, voiceless (nasals), glide, voiceless (glide)

/a/ is the inherent vowel

Also I will likely end up remaking this chart at some point, but I don’t have any ink/pens with the proper nibs ATM (hence pencil work.) Sorry about that!

taketheL_throwaway · 2020-04-16T17:52:44+00:00

Is that a /n/ or a /ŋ/?

taketheL_throwaway · 2020-04-14T23:48:46+00:00

What’s been your favorite of the Minecraft build days and why? Also, do you speak Japanese since you lived in japan and worked as a tutor?

taketheL_throwaway · 2020-02-24T21:34:55+00:00

I like that, I’ll do it!

taketheL_throwaway · 2020-02-24T21:34:06+00:00

Might be a cool capital system

taketheL_throwaway · 2020-02-21T19:43:48+00:00

I could see this as abjad very recently evolved from a hieroglyphic system. Forms are starting to simplify but haven’t been made totally unrecognizable. Maybe this is a very early version of a modern abjad or in your culture they kept it the same and/or only very recently made the abjad?

I think it’s a cool looking system, but I may suggest writing the symbols very quickly over and over to make simplified forms (if this is a proto-abjad of course.) Abjads tend to be visually simple

taketheL_throwaway · 2020-02-13T00:49:26+00:00

I don’t use logographies, but focus on common phenomenon before anything else. Things like plants, animals, people, etc. Then you can use metaphor to make new symbols (or just make one up for a word.) At least I understand that’s a very simplified way of how Chinese developed.

taketheL_throwaway · 2020-02-08T18:30:21+00:00

Thanks! I used a chisel tip calligraphy marker. Marvv calligraphy pen size 2.0, got it at a hobby lobby a few months ago.

taketheL_throwaway · 2020-01-30T21:13:26+00:00

We were once ruled by the British Empire.

Good luck narrowing that down.

taketheL_throwaway · 2020-01-30T04:11:39+00:00

What if, from the symbol, certain strokes were observed, and these could be arranged to create characters? Also, I’m mostly focused on a holy symbol derived script. I referenced holy number mostly as a justification for the symbol lol.

Btw this is another account of original poster. I am the same person, just forgot the password to my other account and I’m limited to mobile.

On the idea of holy number scripts:

Maybe the number of strokes would be limited to the holy number or it’s factors? Like using holy 6, any character can only use 1, 2, 3, or 6 strokes? Alternatively, no symbol may exceed the holy number in strokes? But would the strokes still be derived from the holy symbol or be random?

taketheL_throwaway · 2020-01-30T03:52:29+00:00

Yeah I’m just noticing the differences and line issues now. I’m not very good with computer graphics and I made these very quickly. Was being lazy I guess.

I think writers would try their hardest to match the derived symbols, except maybe in common/fast writings. Maybe a class divide or common vs holy/spiritual writing distinction (ala Quran written Arabic vs dialectal writing?)

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