Re: Ajan update Thoughts?I would not be able to read this. I can't tell where one grapheme ends and the next begins; and I can't tell the graphemes apart. I'd imagine this script would be hard to teach. (Though some of the difficulties I've mentioned also sometimes occurred in Carolingian half-uncials IIANM.)
Sano- 05-16-2008
I would not be able to read this. I can't tell where one grapheme ends and the next begins; and I can't tell the graphemes apart. I'd imagine this script would be hard to teach. (Though some of the difficulties I've mentioned also sometimes occurred in Carolingian half-uncials IIANM.)
Actually, the "difficulties" you mention are often individual...keep in mind that any script can be thought of as "difficult" upon initial viewing.
Look at Hanzi; http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/2/23/Mifu01.jpg
Arabic; http://banglapedia.search.com.bd/Images/M_0420A.JPG
Nushu; http://kotrina.com/weblog/fotos/2005/nushu.gif
If you took the time to learn, or if Ajan was your L1 WS then it wouldn't only not be difficult, but you might think that alphabetum latinum was completely cruel and alien to you.
This idea isn't to suggest that Ajan is simple, or easy to follow, but it requires just as much effort to learn as many other WSs, and the ability to do so is based on an individual`s aptitude, and/or ability.
eldin raigmore- 05-17-2008
I'm sure you're right.
For the most part the difficulties of those other scripts aren't the same as the difficulties I mentioned about Ajan, though. (I think you may have picked an unrepresentatively difficult Arabic text.) But a different kind of difficulty does not mean they aren't at least equally difficult.
Anyway; as you are aware certain fonts of the Latin alphabet are easier than others; for instance sans-serif fonts usually are a bit tougher than those with serifs, in terms of telling which letter you're looking at.
In that vein, I think the pre-improvement, more rectilinear and rectangular version of Ajan, would have been easier for me (individual, as you said) to read, than the improved, more curvilinear, smooth-turning one.
(BTW I'm not sure even Carolingian monks could ever have enough education to tell whether "minim", which was just ten minims in a row, was "unium" or something else like that which would also have been just ten minims in a row, if written in Caroline minuscule. Or maybe I have the wrong name for the script I have in mind.)
Sano- 05-17-2008
In that vein, I think the pre-improvement, more rectilinear and rectangular version of Ajan, would have been easier for me (individual, as you said) to read, than the improved, more curvilinear, smooth-turning one.
Well, the "rectilinear and rectangular" is not disallowed, or forbidden, it's just that to me, the "curvilinear" is much more aesthetically pleasing, and actually much easier to read/write.
eldin raigmore- 05-18-2008
Well, the "rectilinear and rectangular" is not disallowed, or forbidden, it's just that to me, the "curvilinear" is much more aesthetically pleasing, and actually much easier to read/write.Surely the smooth turns (as opposed to abrupt angles) would have been easier to write cursively. Or at least I think so.
Sano- 05-18-2008
Well, the "rectilinear and rectangular" is not disallowed, or forbidden, it's just that to me, the "curvilinear" is much more aesthetically pleasing, and actually much easier to read/write.Surely the smooth turns (as opposed to abrupt angles) would have been easier to write cursively. Or at least I think so.
Eldin, reread the post, that's what I just said...
Alonocus- 08-10-2008
If I can call the current font of Ajan Times New Roman, simply because the broadness of the strokes varies, then an Arial version where the breadth of the strokes don't vary might be easier to read, at the risk of losing the beauty of the script.
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