From: Alex Ferguson (abf@cs.ucc.ie)
Date: Wed 25 Oct 2000 - 18:23:37 EEST
Nils Weinander:
> The oldest Vithelan script is used in the Yederjalif, an
> ancient holy book, describing the rites of the High Gods,
> the vedas of Vithela to make a RW comparison. It is extremely
> difficult to learn, because reading it (must be read aloud
> I think) means direct communion with the High Gods. That in
> turn means that the reader experiences a state of Liberation
> while reading. I think the script is a huge set of complex
> runes. I don't know if they are syllabic or logographic,
> but the main point is that they are mystical/magical
> (divine mysticism).
Probably logographic (or even ideographic, in the more precise
> The fourth script (also my idea) was invented on Mokato in
Also rather like Japanese kana (in which caes "-n" is the only
sense). Here, difficulty to learn is a virtue of the choice,
rather than a vice...
> its imperial days. After a rather embarassing incident, the
> chamberlain of the Grand Steward received the script as a
> gift from Hobimarong. The characters represent a consonant/
> vowel combination, (with single letters added later). The
> inspiration is the indian devanagari script.
such single letter). A lot of EI words seem to consist of
(C)V(C) type syllables, though there are inconvenient exceptions
to this. So a "syllabary+" type system would maybe be handy.
(Perhaps this originates from some language where the syllables
were a more consistently good fit (to (C)V(C), or to (C)V), and
the affixes were added later as a "hack" to deal with loan-words
that broke the rules.
Cheers,
Alex.
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