[84906] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: idea for writing system
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lawrence John Rogers)
Mon Jul 28 01:14:31 2008
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From: "Lawrence John Rogers" <roger158@msu.edu>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:13:44 -0400
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That's right. It's a common feature of the logo/syllabo-phonetic to have
minor alterations on characters carry semantic or phonetic oomph. You know,
I don't know how I'd handle that. Making small additions to glyphs is both
a challenge to the developer and to whatever software he might hope to
develop for the implementation of this. For now, I'm hesitant to take any
glyphs and slice them. I don't like altering canonical forms, I've seen it
turn out stilted-looking. I recognize these people are professionals with
skills. Studying the forms, like Okrand's Atlantean language or John
Emerson/ Okrand's Atlantean alphabet, has yielded for me a deep appreciation
of the type of learning tool these people are constucting. What Okrand did
with Atlantean was a high art form. Okuda's glyphs so far give me the same
general impression.
Klingon presents the opposite stylistic challenge to Atlantean: very, very
little is supposed to resemble anything we know or even could imagine. It
has this "ink blot meets blunt force trama" aesthetic which I think should
cross the language-related into the graphic.
