Re: Conscripts (was Re: Moi, le Kou)

On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 11:38:22 +0900 Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
writes:
> Wow!  I think the first alphabet that comes up on the page has a very
> "carved" look to it; how did you do it?  :-)
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If you're talking about the big chart, i think that's just a relic of the
processing that the picture went through on its way from word processor
to web page.  I think it had to do with translating it into a picture and
then resizing it.

> >There's also an ideographic (actually morphemograph?) system,
> created for
> >my anthropology class the semester before this past one, found at
> >http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~bh11744/theszhes.gif
> Neat!  Did you right that on computer paper?  =^)  (I'm looking at
> the
> holes...)  It looks very mysterious, like something you'd find
> inscribed on
> a tomb or cenotaph somewhere and have to decipher.
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Thanks!  Holes?  Do you mean the dots going down the columns, next to the
column lines?  I think that was just pencil or pen or some other writing
tool.  I believe that i wrote it on regular unholed printer paper.... ah
hah, now i remember.  The lines and the dots were made on the computer.
I layed-out a place for the passage to be written at the beginning of the
project's write-up, and i made a chart, and put dots on each line so that
the morphemographs would be all pretty much the same size, in a nice neat
layout.  i think.

> <G>  Some kinds of boustrophedon would give me a headache trying to
> figure
> out orientations, especially in alphabets where some letters are
> mirror
> images or rotations of each other.  Korean's especially bad in that
> respect;
> I sometimes read vowels wrong because they're
> rotations/reflections/inversions/aiee!
>
> YHL
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Ack!  Having different scripts for different directions is much easier,
believe me.  :-)


-Stephen (Steg)
 "Word making is world making."
     ~ _The Beginning of Desire: Reflections on Genesis_
          by Avivah Zornberg