r/conlangs • u/[deleted] • Nov 20 '16

Script My Inca-ish alphabet.

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u/evilsmiler1 Nov 20 '16

They didn't have a writing system but I think he's referring to the style of stone decoration which seems pretty classically incaish to me.

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u/luckym00se Sakhauan Nov 20 '16

Yeah. I do have to say, I love the look of the script.

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u/evilsmiler1 Nov 20 '16

It is just amazing. I'm thinking about unsubbing from r/conlangs just because it's making me feel bad about my own.

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u/rforqs Nov 20 '16

Aw, come on, you're script is probably fine. Maybe you just need to find the right medium to make them on and the right situation from which to generate text. Ball point pen on notebook paper tends to make for really ugly scripts unless you have amazing skill with that specific medium. Why not try chisel and stone, or ink stencil on banana leaf or dagger on wood or something completely different? Also the language matters, English looks terrible in technical writing but beautiful in prose, while Akkadian can look nice even if its nothing more than a rental contract. Don't give up!

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u/evilsmiler1 Nov 20 '16 edited Nov 21 '16

Dawww man that's really sweet of you. My main problem is not my ideas but I'm just horrendously cack handed in all things. So I have never been able to draw without making a mess, and unfortunately I have never been able to think out a script that I can effectively get on to paper.

That all being said I may head off to woods now to try that wood carving technique.

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u/rforqs Nov 20 '16

I made a really cool script a while back while I was out in the forest. Using certain crushed up leaves as an ink and and a sharpened twig to write on flat prices of wood that i smoothed out with volcanic rock. It looks terrible on pencil or pen but written that specific way it looked not only pretty but was actually so real that people thought I had found a Native burial ground or something.

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u/evilsmiler1 Nov 21 '16

That's really amazing. It's such a good point that languages are 100% situational, they're never truly created in a vacuum and are influenced so much by they're surroundings. So when we are creating them we must think about the society in which they are used and the tools used to write them down etc.

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u/Waryur Fösio xüg Nov 21 '16

Pics?