Darthjaffacake 1 week ago • 100%
Maybe people didn't live long enough for skin cancer to make a difference?
Darthjaffacake 1 week ago • 100%
Doesn't work for people with connected muscles for pinkies😔
Darthjaffacake 3 weeks ago • 100%
I'm not sure how fantastical your world is but maybe nightglasses rather than sunglasses. simulates natural night vision, could have some interesting side effects if used a lot.
Darthjaffacake 4 weeks ago • 100%
Nah you got it perfect! (Also holy shit I didn't expect to find a volapük learner on Lemmy)
Darthjaffacake 1 month ago • 100%
Film theory did an interesting video where they concluded it'd be okay since he'd only be intaking a little over time. (Not saying that's true)
Darthjaffacake 1 month ago • 100%
Yeah they reference this in the book, it's always from him when he uses the bacteria (meaning in theory it's only his own pathogens or bacteria). He uses his crews shit that's been dried and left in Martian temperatures so it's sterilised.
Darthjaffacake 2 months ago • 83%
Progressive taxes are a way to make up for the imbalance of poorer people spending a higher proportion of their income on essentials, it's a fundamental of economics. Although I have heard that the tax brackets in Russia are completely flat (not that that makes it any better).
Darthjaffacake 2 months ago • 100%
Also the fact that the economy is managed can mean things aren't always testable. If you think there's going to be a recession based on models and you prevent that by using policy, did you really prevent the recession or was it never going to happen?
Darthjaffacake 3 months ago • 100%
I thought the proposal to call them majority world countries was interesting.
Darthjaffacake 4 months ago • 100%
Yeah I got called a narcissist with my worst ex and then just flat out asked if they knew what it meant, I think it was a little telling they didn't actually know (not that I do either lol). It's really hard being with someone who makes you feel loved but doesn't love you and I'm so proud of you for being on the other side of it and being happy!
Darthjaffacake 4 months ago • 100%
As everyone has said, lossless compression might not have great ratios, but if it's still worth it I recommend dwarfs as it creates read only mountable filesystems with minimal setup https://github.com/mhx/dwarfs
Darthjaffacake 4 months ago • 100%
Nah it makes sense
Darthjaffacake 4 months ago • 100%
This is fantastic! The system seems pretty well optimized for your use case which is hard to do when working with something so unique, although maybe the 5 tone characters should look more different. I like really like the final look being somewhat like devanagari even if it shares none of the letters. You should be very proud of your work!
Darthjaffacake 4 months ago • 100%
I second this! It's extremely unique and I don't think I've ever heard of a conlang where the method of articulation is so different but still very reasonable as a concept, if you're looking for inspiration I recommend silbo gomero from the canary Islands as it is a whistled form of Spanish.
Darthjaffacake 4 months ago • 100%
Statistically 4/4 are silly :3
Darthjaffacake 4 months ago • 100%
Doing a bg3 campaign rn and what started as a well planned attack ended with my half orc fighter picking up a crate and hitting the last enemy so hard over the head with it the crate ceased to exist. All in all, a very fun time.
Darthjaffacake 4 months ago • 90%
Yeah, it almost looks like you'd be able to run things faster than natively on windows, which is why I'm suspicious (not that it's a lie just that the numbers lack context). It doesn't say what the numbers represent I think?
Darthjaffacake 5 months ago • 100%
God damn I'm genuinely impressed
Darthjaffacake 5 months ago • 100%
I quite like both these characters and wish we could have them be companions, I'm still happy with what we got though and it'd be asking a lot to add such a huge amount of stuff on top of what's already in the game.
Darthjaffacake 5 months ago • 100%
I think it works really well for the goals of the language (complexity and conciseness) although I still prefer V3. A Hangul like syllable block system is cool and has it's benefits but if you're clever then an abuguida is better since it makes more recognisable words in languages like English that are less analytic. Hangul is sick as hell tho and maybe I should make a version for English.
Darthjaffacake 5 months ago • 100%
Not a language I thought would be referenced in this topic but damn I'll take it. Maximum migraines indeed.
Beautiful tho, one of my favourite inspirations for writing.
Darthjaffacake 5 months ago • 100%
Wouldn't it be blue?
Darthjaffacake 6 months ago • 95%
I haven't heard anything about David Attenborough talking about plant based stuff so I won't dispute it but he did help found and fund the zoology museum in my town, one that specifically tries to educate people on the dangers of climate change and making species endangered. From what I've seen of his filming they're pretty conscious about not leaving any waste behind too.
Darthjaffacake 6 months ago • 100%
Yeah I saw that script in the photo, it looks very strange and there aren't really any scripts at the moment that look like that for a number of reasons, but still could be interesting. As for the art though, I'm a real sucker for descriptions of drawn science/history with neographic writing.
Darthjaffacake 6 months ago • 100%
This is sick! I've seen a lot of systems inspired by this style before and it's obvious why😁. I think it's cool that the individual letters have lots of detail but also form very interesting calligraphy like shapes when together. I assume theres no meaning but still the style is to be admired.
Darthjaffacake 6 months ago • 100%
Quora can be such a cesspool godamn. I once found a musician who claimed octopi have higher IQ than humans and have much better visual memory and would be better at maths. The only time I've encountered actually encountered antivaxxers is on there.
Darthjaffacake 6 months ago • 100%
Shrek 2 dumbass
Darthjaffacake 6 months ago • 100%
In the UK the government was considering switching back to imperial (just to pretend we're not in Europe). Honestly I think they didn't because otherwise they'd get too many milkshakes thrown at them.
Darthjaffacake 6 months ago • 100%
I second the dynamo, never felt it pulling me back and I always have working lights. I tease my bike enthusiast friend whenever he asks to charge his lights but it really is just convenient. So far I've never broken them so I think that's a plus.
Darthjaffacake 6 months ago • 100%
I use metric for the fantasy that my country isn't dumb 😥
Darthjaffacake 6 months ago • 100%
That is sick! I hope you had lots of fun making it too!
Darthjaffacake 6 months ago • 100%
Yeah it's still widely known
Darthjaffacake 6 months ago • 100%
Criticism and hate are two different things. I hate windows, I can criticise parts of arch Linux which is so far my favourite OS. Me not liking part of it or the way it works doesn't mean there's another version that is completely perfect and I should just shut up and use that. Also no it doesn't suck, but updating my system and having it break is a problem I should not be having.
Darthjaffacake 6 months ago • 100%
But if lots of people use it wrong and break it then maybe it's too obtuse. I broke one of my applications by upgrading packages. The solution? Install the package again, I thought the package manager would take care of stuff like that but if it's meant to be me then I think it's a bad system.
Darthjaffacake 6 months ago • 100%
I broke my install by updating it, I get that if you perfectly understand what's going on then it has no bugs but that's really not my experience. A lot of the time something will break and it's easy to say "I should've known it was this so it's my fault" but really if you didn't expect it to work a certain way and it breaks it's not a super stable system.
Darthjaffacake 6 months ago • 95%
A lot of them
Darthjaffacake 7 months ago • 100%
काश यह सच होता 😭 Nah I'm from the UK and the test is really strange and involves a lot of stuff important to my parents and laws in parts of the country I've never been to so pretty much studying is mandatory.
Darthjaffacake 7 months ago • 100%
I failed the citizenship test for my country by a wide margin 😥. Guess imma be deported for not knowing about cricket 40 years ago
Darthjaffacake 7 months ago • 100%
I don't think you could call the grass and object since it's not a 3d model, it's a bunch of 2d images stacked on top of each other at a high enough resolution that it looks like a real line from above. The way you draw in these 2d images is via a shader as you wouldn't do it on the CPU. (Not a graphics engineer just an amateur programmer so don't fully trust my word on it)
Darthjaffacake 7 months ago • 100%
I think if other people like it a lot then it works for them, part of liking Minecraft for me is traveling but I don't think everyone has that and just want to get one with building or finding a structure
![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/9aa85d98-4aca-4a6d-9ac2-16ef1e435d56.jpeg) ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e8273672-28d8-4a70-b603-c85d38682cb7.jpeg) ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a52eda3b-08a0-402c-9690-caa18839077f.png) This is a game called chants of the sennaar and in order to progress in this game you must start to understand the writing system through context and the puzzles presented. I think this works super well and was much easier than I expected.
![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4a35288d-84e9-4e5a-9641-bfb54caf931c.png) I kinda like the way this looks as it makes the script predictable but I still feel like it could really be improved ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d4078b04-d0a2-47a2-b9db-72d7842fee39.png) ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c75df0f2-de2f-4397-abd3-74cd377b9bfa.png) These two are pretty bad in my opinion as I can't really tell where the dots are meant to be and it looks very overcomplicated. ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/004d4e87-49b7-40c8-82cd-2b3958b97865.png) This is the original font and I believe it can be easily written (unfortunately my artistic skill is pretty low).
I'll start with the ones I'm considering: -Clausal distinction by colour of the word -Boustrophedon (alternating direction of writing) -intent indicators
Every once in a while I sometimes think about remaking the English writing system, as is normal I'm sure😅, and I wonder what would be the most useful revision of punctuation or phonetic.
First panel of a few but I'm not sure if ill finish the whole comic. Translated myself so it's probably bad toaq 😅 but the fun is the journey.
Been playing through baldurs gate 3 recently as I'm sure many of you have been and started to think that githyanki are really similar to the mind flayers. Both see themselves as somewhat independent but have a greater queen they serve, have a fairly utilitarian society to say the least, possess psionic abilities that are very similar to each other and long to make an inter planary empire. Now many of these similarities can be a poetic story of how they never grew or learnt from the oppression they faced, but I think that this theory adds something great to the story as they both have a mysterious origin that is somewhat explained by this, and adds a reason to why the aboleths who know all the past don't know anything about mind flayers.
Essentially there's a huge amount of data in one of the VPK files that's being repeated and I think it should be able to be removed, I'm looking at the largest VPK file in the game btw.
Recently cult of the dead cow came out with veilid, a secure decentralised way of sending encrypted information and i think this could be a huge asset to lemmy. Cult of the dead cow even mentions mastadon by name as they say this is the type of application it was designed for. If veilidchat takes off then i really hope the devs will consider it.
I recently commissioned a friend to make a logo for a community I made about writing systems as an art form https://lemmy.world/c/neography and I'm super happy with his work! The title is the middle is great as a logo and the cycles of the moon show time passing along with new ways of writing being discovered. I have no idea how y'all are able to do stuff like this but stay inspired and take care of yourselves!
I finally got this script to a state that I'm happy with and i think it works alright for the language. The way it works is that since every elemental word can be either CVC or CVV or CV every symbol is one consonant + the flipped form of the coda consonant on the bottom with up to three vowel marks. I hope you guys check out the nao language and keep on being kool as heck!
I'd been thinking that this place needed a proper symbol and I certainly didn't want to steal one from the reddit logo competition (even if they were ballin) so I ~~kidnapped~~ paid my artist friend to make this awesome logo that shows the different ways of writing over the ages. He's called Kriall btw and might be posting more neography related stuff in the future. I hope you guys love this logo as much as I do! Keep on arting you beautiful people I share a hobby with!
art by u/colin_gorman12 Personally I'm a big fan of Sindarin as it is a featural system and has a great overall design that really says something about the culture of the elves. I also think it can be written in boustrophedon which is something i love to see implemented.
For me it was Hebrew and it's cool writing system, then ithkuil and how alien it seems. It lead me down a deep rabbithole to where i now make writing systems.
As this is my first real neography review I thought it made sense to do it on a conlang I know somewhat well at least in terms of community and phonotactics. Much of what I am writing here is my own opinion (it’s an art form, duh) but I hope that I can argue well enough that you’ll agree with me. I’ll go through the features and critique them as I go; as always, the sources are at the bottom of the page. Consonant Shapes ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0082e745-fba4-4271-8bf4-274a7b52de41.png) Positives The inclusion of trailing curves combined with flat stops at the sides of characters makes this script have a truly unique style online and makes things easier when less visible and easier for dyslexics as it is reported that unique additions and features to characters in a font make them more recognisable (1). The dip at the bottom is another feature which can be used to differentiate characters and words and preserves the overall style. The minimalist characters make this script easy and fast to write and don’t involve any hugely complex hand movements. The design of r and l being similar is good as it makes them easier to learn and more obvious that they are pronounced similarly. Negatives As much as I love this script I believe that many of the letters look far too similar, SH is just CH but with a downstroke which itself is a form of or B C which itself is a dotless form of K, D is a flipped form of G, R is an M missing one circle, N is S missing a flick, and R looks like the inparsable consonant cluster BH (obviously this means you won’t thing it’s another word but reading is about fast recognisability not just mistaken readings). I think the reason why so many shapes appear the same is because the style forces a narrow set of characters: only downstrokes on the right side of the character, circular motion must be at a set height, two strokes maximum (with two exceptions), the only angles are within a circle/flick or are 90 degrees. Having a limiting set of rules for neography is a very good idea as it’s what gives Derani such a specific and consistent style but I believe that in this case it leads to missed opportunities and repetition. Vowel shapes ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/66d7eea2-bbd4-4788-a313-51c77e87e88e.png) These are very similar to the consonants in terms of styling and negatives however there is a flaw which I would say is major: the vowel glyphs are all the same as the consonants. This is referenced on the website and addressed with a pretty good explanation: “The vowels use the same letters as five of the consonants. As consonants and vowels alternate in words, this creates no ambiguities in sequences of CV(Q) syllables.”. This is a unique way of representing things that could only be done in a language with as restrictive a syllable structure, something Toaq only partially fulfils as the next sentence explains that it does create enough ambiguity to warrant double vowels being marked and marking the start of a vowel onset syllables. I think the point about unambiguous vowels is moot if a new system is needed to make it unambiguous. Once again this could be due to the problem of limitations to the style of individual letters, 5 vowels only adds 100 x 39/34 so 15% (reference number 2) more characters, or perhaps this choice may be made due to learnability but I would consider adequate vowel marking an absolute necessity when it causes bad reading. Diphthong Marking ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/34a331b1-018a-41ce-be8e-f39a73fdfe58.png) Generally a good idea to emphasise diphthongs if there is no specific glyph for them, personally I would have a whole glyph dedicated to them but obviously keeping the number of symbols that need to be memorised low was a clear goal here so this was good design. Special symbols ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a13eaf3b-cab4-4c67-99c4-9a42421e249a.png) This is a nice looking symbol and makes names obvious. ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/09786d0a-b952-4722-8112-78ef0535ae28.png) This is good in terms of design as it creates blank space at the normal viewing height for characters while being long and spikey to create contrast. Unfortunately this is a 5 stroke symbol which is a lot for something that will be used fairly often, another shape which requires much less time and takes up slightly less space would be perfec tbut I think this glyph is almost okay. ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c38df812-9f04-4e2d-8246-ffb0de2d85b3.png) This glyph is good as it creates vertical visual contrast rather than horizontal meaning it shows a break in the sentence but also doesn’t look anything like the subordination mark. I really like the look of this character as it reminds me of the ithkuil 3 script which I am very fond of. ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/32f72b28-f009-4f43-9193-bf7d432abd31.png) I think the design of this was meant to reflect the fact that it’s somewhere in the middle of the interrogative and declarative which is clever however the contrast isn’t really seen from afar and there could be much more visually distinct characters which still form a middle point like this. ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8ef2e91f-cf68-4a71-9f02-a41cb36e6459.png) This is too similar to the declarative end. Variable marks ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8c3de81c-e7ba-4521-b77d-5dd5b24f01a8.png) This is a very creative way of showing the grammar of Toaq and should be greatly appreciated. Unfortunately this often makes an unfilled space above a word, I’m sure there’s a clever way of making tone work with this system but as for now I believe it’s worth it. Overall I believe this script deserves a lot of love for it’s wonderful style, usability online and integration with Toaq’s grammar. Derani has come a long way and still has a long way to go, so show it some love! 1 https://www.dyslexiefont.com/en/dyslexiafont/ all points except 2 and 5 reference this 2 21 consonant marks + 3 tone marks + a diphthong mark + a hiatus mark + the prefix mark + 5 grammar marks +2 variable marks 3 https://toaq.net/refgram/orthography/ Accessed on 26/07/2023
![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f797c135-a10c-4457-a893-610132bfbd5e.jpeg) ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1ecf5991-34a3-41bb-90dd-222e90dea9f2.jpeg) ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/677517a0-7485-4a7d-8b8f-299dfe6e4478.jpeg) ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ef9f54d3-0837-4c9b-a5ca-06a5cd34a965.jpeg) ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/cdf6fca9-f793-4f1c-9d19-85032fd5fbb9.jpeg) Hope this is decipherable!
I started this a while ago and only made one panel of manga and two panels worth of translation but it kept me occpied while I was sick and I really think that manga and memes and other media with a high content to word ratio is the best stuff to translate as you can have a much higher volume of stuff. Keep on arting peeps! ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c6cf91d9-10f5-4776-907b-fad417d23cc6.png)
Hanzi is a system that inspires many of us who write with alphabets, it's a way of writing things that seems too complex and too beautiful to represent word yet it is used by billions of people every day. Square word calligraphy is not Hanzi however it is very much inspired by it's style: xu bing turned the roman alphabet into a more complex way of combining glyphs that looks very visually distinct. Here is the key ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/02072239-a87d-461c-bc4c-64814b100859.png) I think the creation of this system goes to show that there is more to a writing system than just conveying information, the glyphs you choose, the style they're in and the way they combine are important factors in making a good script. Keep on scripting neographers! For more information https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/73325 and https://www.omniglot.com/conscripts/swc.htm
Dotsies is a very divergent idea from what i normally find online as a script. It's very imaginative in terms of glyph shape making and is obviously incredibly dense in terms of size (not that thats generally an aim for neography). The whole concept is quite simple and in my opinion incredibly effective as it captures the alien like properties of standard galactic (the Minecraft enchanting table script) and old school kryptonian. The main thing that differenciates this script from all others is the fact it can generate fully unique shapes purely out of phonetics making this a rare alpha-logography. Before this script I never really cared about word shape, many of my first projects had hard to separate alphabetic characters and no care for the overall space that a word fills however this script has been a real eye opener: make every shape as close to a morpheme as is phonetically possible and have a variety of shapes to make them blend together to form complex objects that are more recognisable. After analysing dotsies I've taken more care to make abuguidas that combine in morpheme unique ways and which separate out more easily. If you're working on a new script I highly encourage a unique form of combination between characters in a word like the devanagari topline (something I'm working on encorporating into sitakai) or even using vowels as differently shaped connecting lines in a type of abjad (like im doing for old Kryptonian). I cannot stress enough the sheer uniqueness of this system however I have a number of issues with it i would love to improve upon. Unfortunately these improvements may be too difficult for me to finalize, if any of you are interested in a candidate for the world's densest writing system feel free to comment >:)
This is a post about the Zach Schneider era Kryptonian alphasyllabary and why I've around in terms of my opinion but also why i think this script can be improved. Firstly the characters initially looked far too complex and dyslexic unfriendly to be useful to anyone, the written text often looks too crowded with detail, however this is a necessary part of the Kryptonian style in these movies and the characters themselves aren't entirely impossible to understand. I think the problem with the system at the moment is the overhead details and topline. Here is an explanation of how the script works https://www.google.com/amp/s/dailyplanetdc.com/2020/09/21/understanding-schreyers-kryptonian-language/amp/. There are 6 vowel sounds with an additional slot for single consonants, the rotation determines the vowel for three of the sounds however the remaining four have no differenciation by rotation whatsoever, relying only on the small shapes above the character. In my opinion these topshapes should be removed and replaced with additional rotation and reflection (there are 8 configurations that could be followed which is more than enough). A problem this will cause is that words will be indistinct without a line keeping them separate however i believe the flowing organic shape could be improved by connecting the empty spaces of the glyphs in a way that shows extra information like grammar; after all the glyphs were made to all have at least one empty space. This script has a lot of potential and shows real work on the part of Dr. Christine Schreyer: the shapes all fit a certain style and Kryptonian also includes a handful of logographic characters making this a dual script, one of my favourite types. I hope this great alien script follows the words of artifexian. Iterate iterate and iterate some more! ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/520a2c17-6d7c-4632-a7ba-6c1ac2996833.jpeg)
The pic in the caption is by ykulvaarlck (ithkuil 3 rather than 4 but I love 'em both). I'd love to discuss some of the great design in tnil writing system that JQ came out with a while ago. For one I love the system of representing triconsonantal roots as single glyphs as it's very efficient but difficult (much like the language itself) but also gives an excuse for such complex single shapes. A problem I find with a lot of "alien alphabets" is that single alphabetic characters are far too complex to be usable and look dull as they're forced to repeat. Overall i also just love the style and uniqueness of this script! I'd like to hear what you guys think, is this type of script your preference? Find more details on the script http://ithkuil.net/newithkuil_12_script.htm. Some ithkuil 4 art by hlakskért-warčtra ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/6bb2d6e1-bec4-48c9-8943-97294c35122f.png)
Picture in the caption is made by sirkles and explained by this video https://youtu.be/s-Fv_isg0lY. Shermans is by far the most popular and was the first i really saw but my favourite style by far is the unfinished grey alien script ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/9b385985-e7ab-41fa-b5de-e25a1b1c1bf9.webp) Gallifreyan is a sign you can always be more creative with your script's ability to combine glyphs and with writing direction. Left or right? Fuck it, clockwise! Live long and keep making great art my whovians!
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I spent a lot of time working on it and it's still kinda rough but im curious what you think!