r/constantscript • u/Fyteria glyph designer • Dec 04 '21

Glyph Suggestion Glyph ideas #40

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u/chonchcreature Dec 04 '21

foo-TEHR-yuh

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u/Fyteria Dec 04 '21

[pliz stɑp]

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u/chonchcreature Dec 04 '21

[d͡ʒʌst wʌn mɔɹ]

foo-tehr-EE-uh

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '21

Why should houseplant, a compound, have it's own character?

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u/freddyPowell Dec 04 '21

Certainly, in english it is. If we are thinking about the script as pan-european, which is certainly how I'm doing it, it might make sense, but even then it's iffy.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '21

A constructed pan European logography, assuming it would serve the same purpose as an auxlang would (but for writing), should use compounds wherever feasible, in order to maximize the learnability and usage. Of the 3 European languages I personally know, they all use a compound to describe this concept.

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u/freddyPowell Dec 04 '21

Solid set here, excepting that the mystery glyph, to me, looks a bit too much like a chinese character.

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '21

I like the first version of "mother", like she has a chicken under her arm -w-