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okay, the user asked me if there is a way to write my brumian syllables a bit faster. Yes, there is a way, and its presented here.But it is most unlikely (at least in my conculture) that brumian will be written by hand. Its either used digitally on holo screens, carved into stone or other carvable material or painted ( not linear but shapes that are layered)
But lets say someone from an other culture would come to brume and he survives long enough to learn about the script. He perhaps would like to collect some texts in a notebook. this is how they would probbably look.
The script can be written in all kinds of imaginable directions. This would depend on the person (litterate cultural background) who is using it. Of course, this would change the appearance of the signs a bit. Writing from right to left should flip the shapes mirrorwhise. For writing from up to down they should be rotated by 90° .
here is the more calligraphic version
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Samantha-Wright [2013-01-06 05:18:54 +0000 UTC]
Hmm. You've asked for critique, I see, and I don't think I'm quite qualified to hand out a full-on artistic review (does such a thing even exist for constructed writing systems yet? note to self; write a book) but I do feel somewhat compelled to inquire.
First, I'm really, really impressed with the amount of detail and work you've put into constructing your Mesoamerican productions. This, your Tokiponian codex page, and O Tiz in particular are really impressive labours, and demonstrate a very deep aesthetic imagination and masterful execution. I don't think I've ever seen a Maya-esque script that jumps off the page this well, and the handwritten form is believable, even though I'm not absolutely certain it would be stable in a living culture (more on that later.)
With your Brumian submissions, though, I would discourage using the font "Brush Script" for the headings—it has very specific connotations regarding 1950s American fashion that don't really have anything to do with your work. Instead, you should hand-draw your lettering, treating it as drawing rather than just writing. I think trying to copy the writing in this book would be particularly appropriate—it's a humanist grotesque script written by a German philologist around 1960, and it's very unique.
As for the script itself: this makes a beautiful and plausible writing system for religious usage, and the connection to the engraved form is very clear. I'd be a bit more worried about seeing it used by a general public of merchants and everyday people, though; there are a lot of consonant forms that are very similar (p and *! in particular) which would be hard to keep distinct in written text. Sometimes in history this does happen (u and n are hard to distinguish in several mediaeval European scripts) but usually the correct reading is clear due to phonotactics.
More generally, I'm concerned that, since your system consists primarily of variations in numbers of humps at the top and bottom, quick, lazy writing wouldn't be well-suited to this. Since you mentioned holoscreens in particular, it seems unlikely that Brumian civilization could have avoided the lazy writings of engineers and scientists for its entire history. With that in mind, you might want to parallel Egyptian and develop something along the lines of Demotic script.
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LaughtonMcCry In reply to Samantha-Wright [2013-01-06 10:27:16 +0000 UTC]
Let me say you many thanks for spending your time on commenting and critique ^^
This are some good usefull thoughts you are sharing with me here. You are totally right about the headings. They are a bit hard to read and not very handcrafted looking. The tironic notes are cool, but i want it to be understandable by many people.
And i will for sure have a closer look on the Demotic script to improve this handwriting variant.
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Samantha-Wright In reply to LaughtonMcCry [2013-01-06 17:09:22 +0000 UTC]
I'm glad I could help. I didn't actually mean the Tironian notes themselves, though, just the normal Latin handwriting in the margins.
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LaughtonMcCry In reply to Samantha-Wright [2013-01-06 18:27:42 +0000 UTC]
ah, okay, i misunderstood this ^^ yes, this handwriting looks good. Seems to have some uncialis influence ^^
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