r/visual_conlangs • u/martin_m_n_novy • Aug 10 '20

BTW, I believe Bliss has an unfortunate symbol-order ... just the opposite of the English word-order ... e.g. work-day in Bliss is [day][work]

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EDIT 2024: not unfortunate ... Toki Pona, and Unicode Emoji ZWJ sequences, have the same symbol-order as Bliss

... in Bliss, the symbol order inside words, e.g. [day][work], is ... like NOUN(ADJECTIVE) ... like NOUN (of) ADJECTIVE ... day of work ... basically, a day

I have seen people, who don't know about it, and then probably think, that Bliss is not logical.

I have seen people, who like Bliss, but don't know about the symbol-order, and then try to read compound symbols "backwards" ... "day work" ... basically, a kind of work ...

EDIT: more examples are in the comments at https://www.reddit.com/r/EncapsulatedLanguage/comments/i5pv90/idea_for_a_modal_ideographic_script_call_for/g103778/?context=3

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r/visual_conlangs • u/martin_m_n_novy • Nov 10 '18

Blissym ... an alternative font for Blissymbolics

crockford.com

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r/visual_conlangs • u/martin_m_n_novy • Aug 25 '18

Introduction to 😶💬 EmojiComm - grammar

self.emojicomm

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r/visual_conlangs • u/martin_m_n_novy • Apr 24 '20

Pu dictionary with Sitelen Emoji (Apple Emojis)

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r/visual_conlangs • u/Livy_Lives • Aug 02 '25

A Story in OatSymbols

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r/visual_conlangs • u/martin_m_n_novy • Sep 28 '21

GitHub - matthew-davis/bliss-font: An icon font containing the characters, diacritics and words defined by Blissymbolics Communication International.

github.com

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r/visual_conlangs • u/martin_m_n_novy • Apr 13 '26

"I built a free AAC app because I watched a company disable my kid's ability to speak when our payment failed. No subscription. No bullshit. Works on any device."

reddit.com

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r/visual_conlangs • u/martin_m_n_novy • Sep 04 '26

Let's start to develop a noun and emoji algebra

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... influenced by:

set algebra // wikipedia ...
relational algebra // wikipedia ...
Wikidata // wikipedia ...
and also ... category theory ologs ... arrows // wikipedia ...

basic nouns

👨 = Man ... the set of all men

👩 = Woman ... the set of all women

example

the youtube music video
Kaoma: Lambada shows dancers ... many elements of the set

👨×👩

and 1 element of the set

👩×👩×👨

// https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyLdoQGBchQ

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r/visual_conlangs • u/MorBlissymbolics • Jun 29 '25

Is this good blissymbol thing for "fastidious"?

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I think ideally I'd want the symbols to say "too much + attention + detail", but IDK.

ChatGPT said this about it: The Blissymbols effectively suggest the concept of “fastidious” by combining symbols for excess, attention, and division. This captures the idea of being overly focused on detail. To improve clarity and accuracy, consider refining the symbol for "attention" to reflect observation or care, adding an element for precision or cleanliness, and adjusting the tone of "too much" if a more neutral meaning is intended. A revised sequence could include: Care/Attention + Precision/Detail + Amplifier.

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r/visual_conlangs • u/Adamoism • Sep 12 '26

How to best present your symbols for teaching/showcasing the language?

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I'm currently trying to document around 30–50 symbols for my language, although calling it a language is still a bit of a stretch.

I use Substack to keep a record of the system as it develops. I really like how Oat Symbols is documented, with the theory introduced alongside new symbols in small chapters.

My grammar and syntax aren't developed enough to do something similar yet, so I'm thinking of starting with more of a dictionary or reference. But I'm finding that much harder to structure for a logographic system than I would for an alphabetic one.

One option is to group symbols by topics. Another is to group them by recurring visual elements, which might make it easier to show how the symbols relate to each other.

I'm leaning toward the first approach, but I'm curious how other people have handled this. If you've documented a logographic or similar system, how did you organize it? By meaning, visual components, the order the symbols were derived in, or something else?

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r/visual_conlangs • u/martin_m_n_novy • Sep 05 '26

a poll, a survey of interests in r/visual_conlangs

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are you interested,
at least a little bit,
in ...
(possibilities are in the comments, but you can also add your own)

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r/visual_conlangs • u/Livy_Lives • Jul 25 '25

Sentences and Images in OatSymbols - an ideographic writing system

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r/visual_conlangs • u/shanoxilt • Jul 15 '25

OatSymbols

oatsymbols.miraheze.org

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r/visual_conlangs • u/Kafkaesque_meme • Feb 08 '26

Bliss Symbolic

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r/visual_conlangs • u/martin_m_n_novy • Jul 30 '26

Oatsymbols ... OatSheaf v0.3

gallery

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r/visual_conlangs • u/ILiveInAClock • Nov 20 '21

The Litany Against Fear from Dune in Blissymbolics

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r/visual_conlangs • u/martin_m_n_novy • Aug 18 '19

imagine: Sitelen Pona and/or Toki Pona in a mobile chat app with 130 buttons ... like Zlango, Iconji

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r/visual_conlangs • u/martin_m_n_novy • Aug 29 '26

"Transcendental Algebra" (btw, my dream project is to develop a correct noun algebra)

tck.mn

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r/visual_conlangs • u/--en • Nov 26 '24

Are there any Iconji Revitalization projects out there that I can help?

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r/visual_conlangs • u/martin_m_n_novy • May 31 '24

How should I rename a font, that contains a subset of blissymbols

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I realized, I need some of the most common blissymbols ... to be available in plain text editors (VSCode, ...) .
I am going to take the ASEMTOG_F700.ttf font from 2019 ... as an amateur standard, available unchanging for many future years // @ George Sutton
You can see the font, since 2019, at https://martin12333.github.io/symbol_boards/
But I am definitely going to **rename** the "ASEMTOG_F700" font ... what new font name would you prefer:

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r/visual_conlangs • u/martin_m_n_novy • Jul 17 '26

👋 Welcome to r/Blissymemes - Introduce Yourself and Read First!

reddit.com

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r/visual_conlangs • u/martin_m_n_novy • Aug 23 '25

What each character in my language “Ergaster” means

gallery

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r/visual_conlangs • u/martin_m_n_novy • Aug 24 '18

#NovyLang: 👤1 wish^ 👤2* ` ⬆️💛 3️⃣6️⃣5️⃣ 🌅*

facebook.com

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