Talk:Constructed script

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Artifical is a bad word to use here. It's prejudicial; to say that one thing is "natural" and another "artifical" is usually to give preference to the first. It's not really accurate; writing is something that distinguishes us from the animals, and hence all writing is artifical. Even in the sense that you give, most scripts are artifical. Cyrillic has a distinct point of origin by one person; so do many of the scripts of India. What's the gain of lumping Cherokee, Cyrillic and Cirth together, and contrasting them with Greek and Chinese? --Prosfilaes 05:35, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)

This issue could be described in the article. What is the preferred term of writing systems scholars? Deh 14:01, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Is it really necessary to use the term "conscript" here, as if it were normal usage for a reader unfamiliar with such jargon? Ben 22:39, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

The term is quasi-defined at the top of the page (as a parenthesized implied synonym). But if it bothers you, why not replace each use with 'constructed script'? Deh 14:01, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I will, but I wanted to wait a day or so in case somebody objected. Ben 19:50, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Contents 1 Japanese 2 Sentence breaks off in the middle 3 "Under consideration by Unicode" 4 John Malone - Unifon 5 Cyrillic

[edit] Japanese

I'm looking at the Japanese article through Bablefish, and it looks like it has a number of cool Oriental scripts that this article doesn't have. Unfortunately, since Bablefish does hilarious things to Japanese, and it's not a language that I can produce anything from even armed with a dictionary. Is there anyone who knows Japanese that can even produce a summary of what that article may have on Oriental conscripting?--Prosfilaes 16:38, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

I know a little Japanese. Here's my translation of their list:

• NOXILO script (from the auxlang NOXILO, see [1])
• Tengwar
• Cirth
• Jindaimoji (with 4 sub-versions) (probably faked ancestral Japanese writing system)
• Deseret
• Visual Speech
• Unifon
• Alphabet 26 (?)
• Shavian
• Abh
• Hunter Script, from Hunter x Hunter manga
• "Enoku" language (Enok? Enoch?)
• Klingon
• Rint (from TV show Kamen Rider Kuuga) (check out the Other Links on [2])
• Gurongi (from same show, no ja wikipedia page)
• 異界 script, from anime Final Fantasy Unlimited
• Gilgamesh script, from anime Armored Trooper Votoms
• Grados script, from anime SPT Layzner
• 神部 script, from anime Mashin Eiyuden Wataru
• 星界 script, from same show
• Zentraedi script, from anime Macross
• Namek script, from manga Dragonball
• Gargoyle script, from game Ultima VI
• Xevi script, from game Xevious
• Hyrule script, from game Legend of Zelda
• Digi script, from Digimon game and anime
• D'ni from Myst

--DenisMoskowitz 14:10, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Alphabet 26, IIRC, is a 1960's (?) monocase Latin alphabet/font. Relatively uninteresting. Thanks for the translation.--Prosfilaes 22:42, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sentence breaks off in the middle

Under Tolkien: "While this is the most" and that's all. Put into the article by "Paperflowergirl". AnonMoos 23:39, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Under consideration by Unicode"

The Tolkien scripts seem to be under indefinite consideration by Unicode, never advancing in the approval process (as far as can be determined from publicly-accessible info). But there's a famous anecdote that Tolkien script files included with a 1970's-era plotting or typesetting software package (as a hackish joke) caused great bafflement among German users of the program... AnonMoos 23:39, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] John Malone - Unifon

I guess John Malone who created Unifon isn't the same one as the Liberty Media guy? --213.47.109.179 12:18, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cyrillic

"Not much is known about the inventors of other scripts, though Cyrillic was (according to myth) created by St. Cyril." This seems to be at least partially nonsense; Cyril created the Glagolitic alphabet, but the Cyrillic was named for him by one of his disciples. See Cyrillic alphabet#History or early Cyrillic alphabet. -Octavo 17:10, 21 June 2006 (UTC)