I have some of the same questions as Marco, but he was quicker to hit the "Send"
button (by about a day and a half), so I won't simply reiterate his questions.

Something he didn't mention is that some of the glyphs (like S) look like they
are designed to be joined together, while others (like D) clearly cannot be. Is
any joining or ligation intended in this script? Perhaps a brief sample (e.g.
"Now is the time for all good men...") would help me visualize this script in
action.

Please note that my expertise in glyph variation is suspect. My invented script
was deemed "not workable" on this list by one of the world's leading experts,
primarily because the glyphs in my script are too similar and too dependent on
rotations and reflections. So yours may succeed where mine did not.

On a different note, I am puzzled by the lack of the [z] sound in an English
derivative.

Marco wrote:

> - English has a lot of diphthongs, like the [au] in ['hauz] (house), or the
> [ou] in [pi'ænou] (piano): how are these spelled?

but it's important to note that English pronunciation varies wildly, and in the
case of "piano" at least, the vowel I use is closer to a pure [o] than to the
British [eu]. In any case, you may not have wished to capture this distinction
in your script, as I did not in mine.

-Doug Ewell
posting from work in Irvine, California


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Subject: My Invented Script - Sawi
Author: <qalam@yahoogroups.com>
Date: 2001-04-02 3:07 AM

I have the first draft of an invented script up at
http://dvdeug.dhis.org/sawi.png
It was designed for a roleplaying game; it's used for a descendent of
English, with the main phonetic difference being the loss of the z
sound, usually in exchange for the ipa letter ezh sound. Positions
relative to the base line are important; consonants fill the space,
more or less, vowels are at the top and small, and punctuation is at
the bottom and small.

It's the first of my artificial scripts I'm really happy, so I'm
putting it out here to be torn apart. Anything that would be
too painful for a real script? Any failures to understand the
sound structure of English? Is the IPA wrong? (I'm refering to
a 40 year old book, so some of the IPA characters might be wrong.)
Any other comments?

--
David Starner - dstarner98@...
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