Šsioŵe Łuŵuŕ

Šsioŵe Łuŵuŕ
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/ssioweluwur.php The Šsioŵe Łuŵuŕ alphabet was created in 2006 by Jacob Collard. The alphabet began as an alternative script for English that was meant to be very compact but still easy to learn. However, the alphabet was later used for writing a conlang that Jacob had been writing, and has rarely been used for English since. The language has become the basis for a book that Jacob has been writing, which currently has no definite title. The basis for the compact writing is a square which can hold five or six letters depending on the first, therefore using space more efficiently. O_o

Cool script. It looked difficult at first, but when I examined it closely it's not that difficult...

Somehow it looks like it would be really hard to read. Not that it looks bad at all, it looks really cool; it just looks really hard to read. O_o Seconded.

I don't care for it at all. It looks like chicken scratch to me.

Not spaghetti sneezed out - maybe ramen. :) neqitan said it wasn't that difficult - I looked and looked, and could not read the sample at the bottom, even with a transliteration. And ugly. Though, it would be great as a secret code - disguise it as messy hair or cracks in ice or sidewalk....

...neqitan said it wasn't that difficult - I looked and looked, and could not read the sample at the bottom, even with a transliteration. And ugly. You're right... The author said the script is organized in "blocks", does that mean words or syllables? Actually, the sample shows each "block" has more complex rules than the ones stated. -For example, the word "Anam" is formed by a base capital <A>, with an <n> at the top-right, an <a> at the top-left, and an <m> at the bottom. -The word "Ełie" is formed with a base capital <E>, with an <l> in the top, an <i> in the top-left, and a (reversed?) <e> at the bottom. Also, the above mentioned <l> has this odd curly line to the left. Adding extra lines to an already "heavy" script is completely innecesary, except for calligraphic reasons if intended. ^ Lack of required information is a problem. Not to say the author didn't draw all letters with a similar looking/pencil-move nor with enough space. I could decipher it because I once made a conscript with a somewhat similar construction. The script is cool, the example could have been better...

-The word "Ełie" is formed with a base capital <E>, with an <l> in the top, an <i> in the top-left, and a (reversed?) <e> at the bottom. Also, the above mentioned <l> has this odd curly line to the left. Adding extra lines to an already "heavy" script is completely innecesary, except for calligraphic reasons if intended.I think the "odd curly line" is the ascender on the central <E>. The second <e> isn't reversed, its horizontal stroke is kinda smeared into the descender of the central <E>, and its vertical stroke somehow got a little hook on top and abuts the rightmost end of the <Š> in the next word. ^ Lack of required information is a problem. Not to say the author didn't draw all letters with a similar looking/pencil-move nor with enough space.I wonder how much of the perception of sneezed-out ramen noodles is attributable to penmanship. I'm certainly not the authority on the way this script is supposed to look, but I tried stylizing it a little bit and it ends up a lot less scribbley. Original <Anam’Aŋ Ełie>:

My <Anam’Aŋ Ełie>:

It's still not what I'd call a beautiful script, but it's legible.

Wow. Even with your revised version, Oxlahun, I could barely make it out. Yep. I don't like it at all.

I'd like the author to put some thought on this script, it just look like a digital print that was dragged out or like one of those weird confirmation codes that sometimes won't let you read the symbols or characters correctly.

Awesome script. It would look great on paper as well as in stone!

The sample text makes it look terrible, but the individual glyphs aren't too bad. The block format really kills what is otherwise a solid start to a script (no numerals or punctuation means it's not complete by my standards). The lack of space between lines in the sample certainly doesn't help.

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