Zompist Bboard Again

I really dig the aesthetics. Are those retconned, or did you start making some new glyphs?

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masako wrote: ↑Tue Dec 19, 2023 6:29 pm

kodé wrote: ↑Mon Dec 18, 2023 11:30 am This is super cool (like always)! Reverse engineering historical processes is always a blast, and gives one a ton to think about

It's so good to see you active again. And I completely agree...a lot to think about.

Thanks! Wonderful to be here and to read this—and most of all to see your work!

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masako wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 7:51 pm I have reached 1,116 glyphs for Omyatloko. This process has been a decade in the making, and one of the more challenging conlang endeavors I have undertaken.

Damn, good job! I struggle just to make 50 glyphs, I could not fathom working on over a thousand.

nice!
I love the omya walls,
and the sokue mechanics too little represented...

Ahzoh wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 8:26 pm

masako wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 7:51 pm I have reached 1,116 glyphs for Omyatloko. This process has been a decade in the making, and one of the more challenging conlang endeavors I have undertaken.

Damn, good job! I struggle just to make 50 glyphs, I could not fathom working on over a thousand.

Seconded!

From the outside, the glyphs look very similar to me.
If this is a guarantee of homogeneity,
it's also a difficulty for recognition and memorization
given their number...
can you trace them without memory aids...

I'd argue it's still more memorizable than cuneiform.

masako wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 7:51 pm I have reached 1,116 glyphs for Omyatloko.

this one is as complete as it can be for my purposes and preferences.

I hope you enjoy it. Omyatloko Logosyllabary PDF.

Kudos and congrats on reaching that number. Also many kudos for attaining such a level of completeness.

This is impressive. I don't have much else to say, but yeah. Playing the long game pays off.

Congratulations on this impressive achievement.

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oh I've always thought of your yotsakua as an ant...

Thank you for sharing this; I have read the old document on Moya, but it's been a little while. I have always found Moya to be an interesting script; at first glance, many of the characters seem difficult to tell apart, but when looking at the examples, I was able to parse the script without much difficulty. (This was with the help of the Latin transcription, mind you; I would need more practice to sight-read Moya itself.)

There was only one point in the document that caused me a moment of confusion: the page on the yotsakua mentions the moyamatse, which are not introduced until a few pages later. (I initially went backwards to try to find mention of what they were, before reading forward again and finding them.)

I should say more generally that I have always been impressed by your conlanging (I re-read the Kala grammar a while back) and especially the depth and breadth of your conscripts (particularly Omyatloko, which is a project I find flabbergasting); my own meager efforts in that direction have been largely unsuccessful.

(I have two or three conscript ideas that I have poked at over the years; I know the basic structure and aesthetic that I want, but I have not been able to come up with letterforms that I like.)

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@masako: Thank you in return for your kind words; they mean a lot to me.

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