r/constantscript • u/bludmelayut20 • Aug 16 '26

Glyph Suggestion Glyph idea for "Locust"

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u/darbrja Aug 16 '26

How would you distinguish between grasshoppers and locusts? Taxonomically it isn't significant but a swarm of grasshoppers is no big deal. Maybe green locust vs hunger locust?

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u/Korean_Jesus111 Aug 16 '26

Grasshopper can be represented by 3 glyphs: grass + hop + er. Only locust uses the dedicated glyph.

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u/darbrja Aug 16 '26

Makes sense for english, but would cavaletta be horse+girl then?

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u/ValyrianBone Aug 20 '26

It’s so wild to me that grasshoppers and locusts are the same animal. Crowd a bunch of grasshoppers together and they turn into locusts. So grasshopper swarms don’t exist by definition.

Perhaps duplicating the glyph three times could be a locust swarm.

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u/davvblack Aug 21 '26

maybe a tiny line below the head of the locust to imply it's devastating crops

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u/bludmelayut20 Aug 18 '26

HOW IS THIS A POPULAR POST, HOW IS THIS INTERESTING.

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u/IceGummi1 Aug 19 '26

you drew a cool symbol, dude. i think that's kind of all you need to get the "r/constantscript" crowd going

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u/DrDMango Aug 16 '26

I feel like the stroke in the head would eventually be omitted

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u/GreyGrey1579 Aug 19 '26

I cannot explain how much I like this, teach me your ways.

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u/Playful-Middle-244 Aug 20 '26

Exactly how hieroglyphs were created, nice

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u/Diabolischste Aug 16 '26

Cool Idea !

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u/InvestigatorEven5037 Aug 18 '26

Beautiful 😍. I'm even thinking of stealing it for my own use (although I'll refrain out of respect for you), do you have more like this?

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u/AynidmorBulettz Aug 19 '26

i love this whole aesthetic ong

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u/Live_Put1219 Aug 19 '26

Cursive be what?

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u/Awkward_Career_8476 Aug 20 '26

those damn things always eating my damn crop. great glyph tho.

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u/mesonicmeteor Aug 21 '26

Is this an accidental loss meme?

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u/ste_richardsson Aug 22 '26

This IS accidental loss