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| PhilSrobeighn #1261680 3 months ago |
Needs more punctuation |
| Anonymous #1261692 3 months ago |
Unfortunately 36 characters is the theoretical maximum under the Dinotopian character construction scheme. |
| PhilSrobeighn #1261694 3 months ago |
6ZW33ŮS9∂cu γ9 CŮ93 λAЋcu |
| Anonymous #1261708 3 months ago |
γЋASγ3Ů |
| Anonymous #1261725 3 months ago |
It occurs to me that if we use letters as numbers (A=1, B=2, C=3) then this would free up characters 27-36 for punctuation. I'm not sure if that's worth it. |
| Ananonymous #1261742 3 months ago |
but puntuaction isn't part of the alphabet, it should need extra independent simbols for it |
| PhilSrobeighn #1261756 3 months ago |
The point is that they are making the marks with hooves, like in Dinotopia, right?
Equines, unlike birds, especially huge ones like dinosaurs, have a natural ability and tendency to dig at the ground with their hooves. Slashes could work as basic punctuation, representing dragging the hooves in the ground Thus: ( | = . )( / = ; ) or something like that, whatever would be naturally easy for horses |
| Anonymous #1261799 3 months ago |
Interesting. I like that. I'm also reminded of the | and || punctuation marks in Devanagari. |
| JasonTheHuman #1261804 3 months ago |
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| Princess_Luna #1261823 3 months ago |
That looks very Arabic. |
| EvilHom3r #1261828 3 months ago |
@JasonTheHuman
That was translated by the producers, just like everything else. |
| Anonymous #1261848 3 months ago |
I think we can plausibly have
| || / \ - as punctuation. Are there any others, and which punctuation marks is it most important to have? |
| Cerulean #1262287 3 months ago |
All this is working from a very weak starting point. A systematic substitution through alphabetical order is neither efficient, memorable, nor realistic. The easiest marks to make should be the most common letters, like the vowels. Or you could rearrange it so that most of them resemble the original letters in some way (C=C...). But really I'm just trying to imagine ponies, even marshmallowy ones, twisting their hooves sideways and <i>backwards</i> to do this, and I don't see it, not when they more easily could be drawing lines like sensible creatures. |
| Anonymous #1262307 3 months ago |
Fair enough. I'll see what I can mock up. |
| Anonymous #1262455 3 months ago |
I can't figure out how to post images inline in a comment, so here: http://i.imgur.com/bDli5.png |
| Bronidas #1263661 3 months ago |
You don't really need punctuation marks in a language, just look at traditional Chinese. |
| Anonymous #1264671 3 months ago |
We're not actually creating a language though. If we were going to drop punctuation entirely then the entire rest of the language would have to be reshaped around that. |