tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jul 26 21:30:41 2008
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Re: idea for writing system
So has anyone ever tried to find all the places where Okuda's glyphs show up
in the movies/shows/etc. and copy them down?
This is similar to what I had to do with Atlantean. No one had ever really
put a few years into copying down the entire corpus from all the books or
movies. If only all the necessary Star Trek materials averaged .25 dollars
a shot on e-bay. We'll see... Thank God for screen capture. And
photoshop. And whatever else I'll need or want.
Once and if I get far enough along on this, does anyone have anybody in mind
who could help me program software that could wield this behemoth like a
font? I've glimpsed software for Egyptian and Chinese and it's off the
scale.
I sort-of like the idea of a glyph per suffix. But it's just so artificial.
I can't think of a single complex writing system that assigns a single sign
to a grammatical suffix UNLESS that sign represents the same CV or VC
syllable which that character is. So I might avoid that idea. But it
sounds super cool.
The thing with complex writing systems is that there's usually about 3 ways
to write the same word. In Classical Mayan, there's something like 5-10
glyphs that all have the same syllabic value for all the syllables of the
syllabary (it's an aesthetic thing mostly, partially historic/regional).
>> That pdf article seems to indicate that Okuda's glyphs include something
>> above 50, maybe into the 100's.
>
> Eh? Show 'em to me. He's never made that many.