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wacky feature recommendations for a writing system? (lemmy.world)
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I'll start with the ones I'm considering: -Clausal distinction by colour of the word -Boustrophedon (alternating direction of writing) -intent indicators

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

For the latin alphabet,

  • UsingCapitalLettersToMarkNewWordsInASentenceInsteadOfSpaces.
  • Reintroducing Þ, Ð, Æ, and Œ to facilitate more phonetically consistent spelling.
  • Nixing the goal of one sound one letter in favor of allowing digraphs where the IPA also uses digraphic construction, IE using Tc to represent the ch sound given that T makes a ta sound and C makes a sha sound.
  • More use of ' for where words have been shortened in pronunciation, Being -> Bein' for example.
  • letters for sounds that may not be in your language but are still common enough to be worth being able to transcribe, X for thr kh in Khubz for example.

For a entirely new script,

  • Consonants are single stroke glyphs with no closed loops or shapes
  • Vowels are single stroke glyphs that must have at least one loop or shape
  • Hangul style consonant blocks with Chinese character style stroke order for how to place the individual glyphs
  • mark a full word by drawing a box around it.
  • write sentences top to bottom, and then from left to right
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I really like your ideas for a new script, it reminds me a lot of xu bing calligraphy (or square word calligraphy) which is a script I really like but also demonstrates how important proper writing technique is to make something look authentic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I just looked that up, imagine if that's what became the way to write simplified chinese characters via Pinyin, or at least as Bopomofo guides next to the original characters

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah that'd be cool, but I feel like there's more artistic value in it than there is utility.