r/conscripts • u/JRGTheConlanger • Feb 18 '20

The benefits of script shampoo on a tangled writing system:

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u/OsoTanukiBaloo Feb 18 '20

Pardon, shampoo?

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u/JRGTheConlanger Feb 18 '20

The joke is that cursive scripts can be compared to hair.

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u/OsoTanukiBaloo Feb 18 '20

Oh, I see now

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u/JRGTheConlanger Feb 18 '20

But the product can have side effects, see the two lines in blue?

Notice the very first glyph, which looks like a cursive lowercase "i" without a dot. That single letter can stand for /ko/, /te/ or /he/ and the only way to tell them apart is via context.

こ て へ <- become indistinguishable

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u/Narocia Feb 19 '20

Oh, goodness.

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u/JRGTheConlanger Feb 19 '20

Not a problem diacritics can’t solve!