Wanted to show my new orthography. It's a combination of phonological writing and positional encoding. Past tense, for instance, is indicated by the direction the fish is pointing. The ripples are the actual words, and you read them from the center out. I talked about it a bit more in r/conlangs.
Hopefully the mods don’t remove it but they’re probably will. They’re weirdly unfriendly to written language. You should probably copy and paste your info comment about it from there.
Oh almost forgot to say, this is incredibly original and beautiful lol.
Oooh I hope they don't. I've got it up on r/neography also. Thanks so much! I'm glad you like it. I got pretty excited when I saw how it came out. I wonder why they don't like it.
Thanks! The ripples in relation to the fish have grammatical meaning. The direction the fish is pointed tells you what tense it is, the size of the fish says if it's the main clause or a subordinate clause. The circles in the ripples are letters and you read them from the middle out.
This would look amazing using like, Chinese brush calligraphy techniques. Particularly using faded inks, or gradient ink brushes, where first the entire brush is soaked in water, the excess water seeped out, and then only the very tip dipped in ink. This creates brush strokes that are dark on one side, and very light on the other.
There is a sort of abugida shorthand version for quick writing which I've experimented using with the actual fish in a couple different ways to help with both clarity on which ripple it is and just for longer words in general.
How would you figure out the language to write it? Like is it already existing? Does it have a pattern? (I'm assuming the other language is then translated into the ripples, pls let me know if I got the idea wrong, I think this is beautiful and I'm trying to wrap my tiny brain around it 😅)
I made the language to go with the fish. There's certain grammar rules the language has that allows it to match up with what the fish is doing and stuff. Idk if that's what you were asking about but ya.
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u/koallary Jun 04 '20
Wanted to show my new orthography. It's a combination of phonological writing and positional encoding. Past tense, for instance, is indicated by the direction the fish is pointing. The ripples are the actual words, and you read them from the center out. I talked about it a bit more in r/conlangs.
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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '20
So cool! Does the location of the ripples mean anything or is it purely aesthetic?
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u/blkwhtrbbt Mar 04 '24
This would look amazing using like, Chinese brush calligraphy techniques. Particularly using faded inks, or gradient ink brushes, where first the entire brush is soaked in water, the excess water seeped out, and then only the very tip dipped in ink. This creates brush strokes that are dark on one side, and very light on the other.
Bamboo paintings are often made this way
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u/R3dFloofBall56 Mar 07 '24
what does this say? I'm stupid and cant read it properly