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ScottScheule
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 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
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 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
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 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
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 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

Geeky, sure, but surprisingly lovely.


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
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 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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