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ScottScheule Diglot Senior Member United States scheule.blogspot.com Joined 5213 days ago 645 posts - 1176 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Latin, Hungarian, Biblical Hebrew, Old English, Russian, Swedish, German, Italian, French
| Message 65 of 69 25 April 2014 at 4:19pm | IP Logged |
Just to be different--I quite like the fictional Vulcan script, in traditional calligraphy:
http://www.omniglot.com/conscripts/vulcan.htm
Geeky, sure, but surprisingly lovely.
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| shk00design Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4429 days ago 747 posts - 1123 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French
| Message 66 of 69 26 April 2014 at 2:38am | IP Logged |
Everybody have their favourites. Mine would be the Mayan script. Although certain ones were assigned
to an alphabet, each character is essentially a pictogram like ancient Egyptian.
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| Ganzpret Newbie United States Joined 4305 days ago 7 posts - 10 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Ancient Egyptian
| Message 67 of 69 18 June 2014 at 4:39am | IP Logged |
I study all writing systems as a serious scholar. I specialize in all hieroglyphic writing systems.
I like Roman lower-case because it's efficient and easy-to-write. I'm not saying that Western cultures are best, our writing system is though. Of course, decades ago I thought all sorts of more common "diversity-friendly" thoughts about Arabic and Chinese and Japanese and Hindi and so on.
But for other characteristics, Egyptian is my favorite. It's got everything : a standard coloration scheme, glyphs that look like things over a very long period of time. There's nothing like it. It also throws a curveball by almost totally ignoring vowels and being unpronouncable, without fluency in Coptic.
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| Elenia Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom lilyonlife.blog Joined 3841 days ago 239 posts - 327 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Swedish, Esperanto
| Message 68 of 69 18 June 2014 at 11:14am | IP Logged |
ScottScheule wrote:
Just to be different--I quite like the fictional Vulcan script, in
traditional calligraphy:
http://www.omniglot.com/conscripts/vulcan.htm
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Wow, it's gorgeous!
I don't think I could possibly choose a favourite, but I adore cursive cyrillic. It's so
pretty, and also not too difficult to learn.
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| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4653 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali
| Message 69 of 69 15 September 2014 at 8:43pm | IP Logged |
My favorite ones are, I guess, Latin, Cyrillic, Devanagari and Arabic,
all set in DIN typeface:
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