Weird idea at 4 a.m.
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So, my scumbag brain woke me up at 3:30ish this morning. Couldn't go back to sleep. So I wrote a bit in a journal I'm trying to start keeping for reasons. For related reasons, I'm writing this journal in an alphabet of my own creation, and while I was going along, slowly getting faster and complaining to myself about some of the more complex letter-forms I had two thoughts:
1. This writing system looks awesome when I use my fountain pen (my opinion, your mileage may vary).
2. I might be able to make this go faster if I discarded this current form and re-did it using consonant-only letters, with vowels appended as diacritics like unto Hebrew or Arabic.
Part of the reason I thought of this was that I was using a fountain-type pen, and part because I was thinking of how much information can be compressed into a small space if you are careful with making that information legible. My primary concern was that I have letter forms that require three or even four strokes with the pen I was using and elimination of vowels will free up my 9 simplest forms for use by consonants. Of curse, the downside to this is an impediment to writing English as I am most apt to do with this considering a couple of our most commonly used words have no consonant sounds (I write by sound, not letter by letter transcription): I, A. Might need a simple form to which vowels can be attached?
While I'm doing this, in recognition of the fact that I don't really write my uber-basic conlang with this, I may reorganize the consonant order such that the most commonly used ones (is there a frequency table for sounds instead of letters?) use the newly freed, simplest letter forms.
I might also want to revamp my math system, too. Currently, it is not conducive to writing formulae in easily read formats since I only have a way write things in big, long lines.
Math is boring, why did thinking of that not help me sleep??
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