The CBB

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.I think I live.
cogito ergo sum (no cause-consequent connection required...)

Still impressive ... Especially the outline style... The only thing that makes me uncomfortable, are the glyphs in several pieces... But it's an outside opinion of the project that comes more from my way of working logograms... Now, the 3x3 grid is a common starting point for many "glyph-type&q...

Do (con)languages have expiration dates...

Fontforge seems to be cool...
For myself long ago I used some online tool (fontstruct I think) and a light soft (type light)...
But with logography, a keyboard is not enough except with virtual large keyboard...
Now I use pics with macros in my prosessor to simulate an IME...

elemtilas wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeeZA4B1qyI
Ah, loved that movie!

The eternal search of SSpielberg: the lost childhood (down to fetus...)

The point of my language is to be dynamical with lots of inflections and agglutinations to be able to translate the Bible in a way that everyone can understand it without doubt of the context. all meaning depends upon context, and no words can ever be unambiguous or eliminate the role of context. S...

WTF with PTD...

My point of view: to use a baptist word , seach a dictionary the usual meaning in the language you want to use... In english abjad is common... consonantary not... If you want to use other word define it first and go on... (or use an a priori (called philosophical) language where every word is trans...

MoonRightRomantic wrote: Peter Daniels has no authority outside his own circle of academics.

His circle is quite large... (that what I said...)

"Abjadiyah" is the Arabic word for alphabets. I deliberately choose my terms from English rather than Peter Daniels' loan word-derived neologisms because they translate better. If you ask an Arab conlanger about "abjad" they won't understand what you mean without explaining a wh...

I'm afraid that the url of the pics remain also inaccessible ...
So life goes, everything is perishable ...

Interesting, a syllable sign become diacritic (in head-bending view) to lose its vowel...
Is there a semantic thing in this move...

In reality the better place will be "Anthropology, Culture & History" Conlang transmission in real life is culture, in history, that make anthropology... (Even if the transmission is so putative ... and for many conlangs sort of conworld where that conlang is imagined to be real langua...

... But transmission of (con)language is typically (con)culture...

I'd just focused on the subject thread...
and my last post was not an answer...

Have you read that correlation between tone language and microcephaly genes...
http://www.pnas.org/content/104/26/10944
Who made a tonal conlang...

And about your anglophonia... English is invasive and elswhere invaded in the world english seems to be taught...

the script is vertical left-to-right, so if you turn your head to the right, you're reading it the wrong way. if top to botom I have to bend to the right to see it... right... https://i11.servimg.com/u/f11/19/60/36/56/right10.png http://www.easyvigour.net.nz/fitness/pilatessketches/SBendRight.gif i...

"situations that force them to use" is realized only in L1 or in L2 country... for conlang as in Armond experiment, failure happens generally... IMO, genes and language are correlled for L1 language, in conlang I doubt any transmition possible "by genes" (by parents if you want.....

Often children have something to say... which is not what you want...
However, we will note the rise in power of bio-linguistics, which correlate languages and genes...
Even if one speaks most often of L1...
Except to do an Armond Speers experience...