On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 04:28:57 -0500, # 1 <salut_vous_autre@...>
wrote:

> How do you create your writings?
>
> You sit and write them?
>
> You draw one or two when you have an idea?

I started off wanting to write Old Thagojian in the cuneiform
syllabary[*]. I didn't really have the tools (or a quantity of clay) to
start practicing natively, so I pulled out a pad and a broad-nibbed pen,
and started writing the syllabary using vaguely cuneiform-looking wedges.
I found myself taking shortcuts as I made notes, and thus the idea that
Thagojian scribes, too, had maved cuneiform from an indented medium to a
written medium, and found themselves making the same simplifications. I
ended up relying more and more on broken spellings, and thus the idea of
delibertately representing the nine vowels of Thagojian with the three
vowels of cuneiform, using deliberately broken spellings.

[*]Actually, it all started with Ugaritic, but that's an irrelevant
aborted path.



Paul