On Wed, 14 May 2008 01:04:46 -0500, oonh wrote:
>
> the good: dunkin donuts makes good flatbread sandwiches
>
> the bad: I have a book of world scripts and wow I am completely
> flabbergasted how bad some of them are. Armenian and Amharic and
Georgian
> might not have had the same creator, but they stem from the same
> character design plan. With the exception of the complicated
> conjunct system, I like brahmi-derived scripts. And Hangul too.
> But don't get me started on Tamil or Burmese. Sequences of
> difficult to differentiate geometrics don't make it easy for users
> of a language. Tibetan has similar problems. (all of these scripts look
> pretty, but oh ow). Cyrillic is nice. Cree is pretty.
>
> the ability to independently notate vowels is lacking in lots
> of places. And Arabic: why do you differentiate phonologically
> distinct things by diacritics? I mean, the nastaliq is pretty,
> but gosh you make things hard for the typesetters. (with the
> notable exception of square kufi calligraphy)
>
> (http://www.sakkal.com/instrctn/Square_Kufi01.html)
>
> general lessons:
> the ability to independently notate vowels saves a lot of time and
bother
> having a good range of both topologically interesting and geometrically
> distinct characters seems to do a language good
Personally, I dig syllabry instead of letters, per se, and really would
rather have the glyph assigned intrinsically with the vowel or tone. no
diaritical, no radical, no combining characters, just a simple
glyph-sound relation****p. I'm also in favor of grammatical particles
over declensions, don't like capitalizations (but if you're going to do
it, do it all the way, number figures included), and prefer words to
indicate meaning that punctuation often does, such as indication of
the interrogative or emphatic.
> the ugly: my sleep schedule is forever topsy turvy these days. I have
> been miserable and avoidant for weeks, and I'm rather lonely.
Party on the 24th. Come see Indiana Jones at the Rosebud Theater here,
at the 13:30 screening.
--
"... I've seen Sun monitors on fire off the side of the multimedia lab.
I've seen NTU lights glitter in the dark near the Mail Gate.
All these things will be lost in time, like the root partition last week.
Time to die...". -- Peter Gutmann in the scary.devil.monastery
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