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Description The text is used for a Dscript alphabetical glyph example. Dscript alphabetical glyphs are a way of turning entire words into a single compressed symbol.

The hard part about trying to compress the symbols like this is conserving pen strokes while avoiding ambiguity.

THE ASS AND HIS DRIVER

An Ass was being driven along a road leading down the mountain side, when he suddenly took it into his silly head to choose his own path. He could see his stall at the foot of the mountain, and to him the quickest way down seemed to be over the edge of the nearest cliff. Just as he was about to leap over, his master caught him by the tail and tried to pull him back, but the stubborn Ass would not yield and pulled with all his might.

"Very well," said his master, "go your way, you willful beast, and see where it leads you."

With that he let go, and the foolish Ass tumbled head over heels down the mountain side.

They who will not listen to reason but stubbornly go their own way against the friendly advice of those who are wiser than they, are on the road to misfortune.

Drawing this symbols and glyphs takes some practice, but just a little bit and before you know it you are drawing multiple "name glyphs" for almost any name (multiple as in you can produce various forms for one word), and producing symbols in your boredom from random words 'ca symbols' 'dog symbols', computer symbols' or even 'beiberfan symbols' and 'Spiderman symbols')

Dscript is a "constructed script". Constructed scripts are invented writing systems. "invented writing system" is most commonly intended to mean "invented in a single generation as opposed to evolving over many generations", natlangs(Natural Language) are what we call languages that have evolved for many generations, conlangs(Constructed language) are what we call the new ones.

Dscript was originally a "directional constructed script", this means it could be written both vertically and horizontally with a single pen stroke design. Over time it evolved into its current form, a "dimensional constructed script" which allows the "letter strings" of the directions script to be wrapped up, contorted, forked, and even have letters placed inside of other letters.
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