Re: CHAT: Handwriting (was: Re: CHAT: Coming out of the conlang closet)

 --- Aleks Koch wrote:

> What about Handwriting for your conlangs? If you've worked on
> scripts, how influenced are those by your own handwriting? Or have
> they been created using a computer?
All my languages (till now) are written in Latin and/or Cyrillic script, so
there is less work left for me. I am considering the possibility of applying a
script my father created (based on Cyrillic and Greek) in one of my languages.

I am not deeply into conscripting, alas, but I have tried. The result was
something that looked like bent and unbent lines with a thick dot at each end.
This script was not based on any sort of handwriting, but on something on a
painting of my father, that I liked in particular. In the beginning it looked
very nice, but later I abandoned it, for all letters started to look like
teacups :)

Another "game" I sometimes do, works like this: write something quickly, and
then copy it several times, pretending that you don't know the word(s) and the
letters. The same principle as a relay. The result sometimes looks like a very
nice script, but I never attached any actual values to it.

> Uhh so do you make scripts by hand or by computer? (if you do make them)
Only by hand.

Jan



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