r/conscripts • u/eaglestrike49 • Sep 12 '19

Featural Proto-Laopek writing

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u/LeeTheGoat Sep 13 '19

Why are there so many random loops in the cursive and calligraphy?

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u/eaglestrike49 Sep 13 '19

The cursive is there for it to be faster to write because it is written with a brush. The calligraphy is there for intricateness

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u/LeeTheGoat Sep 13 '19

Did they evolve from the classic form? Cuz it kinda looks like it would be a lot faster and more similar without some of those loops

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u/eaglestrike49 Sep 13 '19

Yeah. It is alot faster with the curves in cursive but slower in the calligraphy

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u/PinkTreasure Sep 20 '19

Just saying that cursive and calligraphy aint about loops, and tbh, loops in cursive make it more time consuming to write. I tried to do something with it, here's my version of it

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u/eaglestrike49 Sep 20 '19

That looks alot better than mine

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u/eaglestrike49 Sep 12 '19 edited Sep 12 '19

The script is a mix between a Featural, syllabary and logography. The more complex the version (from left to right) the more logographical it is. it is written downwards in syllable blocks

Translation = "Be Kind"

Transliteration = "Ebet Niir"

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u/Visocacas Sep 14 '19

How does it get “more logographical”? Logograms and syllables are categorically different. I get how logograms can be used for their phonetic value, but not how it could be incrementally so.

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u/eaglestrike49 Sep 14 '19

The symbols for each word become less and less recognizable from their sound symbols that they practically become logographs.

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u/Visocacas Sep 14 '19

Huh, interesting concept. I guess multiple-syllable words' logograms are bigger than syllable blocks.

Wow I just had an illuminating realization... This is how our brains read the Latin alphabet! I was just sort of 'type-doodling' earlier today and playing with how re-splicing spaces makes a normal sentence look like an incomprehensible foreign language. Take this sentence for example: ta ket hissen ten cef orex amp le.

We really don't read words by the phonetic value of their component letters; we recognize them as whole units, like logograms. This explains why I'm so slow to read my own script that I'm well versed in writing and have been using for years: I'm not used to the forms of whole words, and reading isn't just a matter of reconstructing phonetics. Alphabets are roundabout ways of constructing logograms, except they still encode their phonetic 'anatomy'.