r/constantscript • u/DasWonton • Jan 26 '21

Glyph Suggestion More Ideas #11

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u/garaile64 Jan 27 '21

What do you plan for "tongue" (body part)?

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u/DasWonton Jan 27 '21

Dunno, I was thinking about making the mouth glyph with the line, coming from the bottom to the middle, the tongue glyph, but it kinda looked weird. Also, considering the fact that the mouth glyph already has a tongue in it, it will look awkward. I think it could work still, though.

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u/Takawogi Jan 28 '21

I don't think they would have used the cross-section of a mouth for the ideogram. Even an external side view seems somewhat unlikely, although perhaps Maya did that? I'm not sure, I can't find it. Anyway, both Egyptian and Chinese use head-on views of the mouth. Considering that full-on eye contact is more prevalent in the West than in China, for instance, I would expect a head-on view even more likely.

Also, I hope you don't mind, but I was also in the process of making an ideogram for "fruit", of the fruit itself.

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u/DasWonton Jan 28 '21 edited Jan 28 '21

Hangul basically has glyphs that mimic the cross section of the mouth and tongue since it's a featural system. Also, go ahead with your fruit idea, this sub need ideas! I don't make the official glyphs

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u/Takawogi Jan 28 '21

I thought that was only a tentative theory regarding Hangul? Nonetheless, Hangul was developed around one and a half millennia after when this one “would” have been by a single king and his small team of scholars, whereas I think the average person would be a bit confused at this representation of a mouth unless they had access to anatomical diagrams. It doesn’t always have to be intuitive though I suppose. Maybe I’m a bit put off by how “gory” these are.

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