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What is your favorite writing system?
Latin 10%  10%  [ 2 ]
English 10%  10%  [ 2 ]
Kanji (Japanese) 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Hanzi (chinese) 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
modern standard arabic 5%  5%  [ 1 ]
hangul (korean) 14%  14%  [ 3 ]
devanagari (hindi) 10%  10%  [ 2 ]
urdu (pakistan) 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
cyrillic (slavic, russian) 19%  19%  [ 4 ]
Kana (Japanese) 10%  10%  [ 2 ]
kanji and kana (Japanese) 24%  24%  [ 5 ]
Total votes : 21

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15 Apr 2009, 2:40 pm

Egyptian Hieroglyphs. Used to be one my "aspie obsessions" in High School.



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16 Apr 2009, 2:26 am

KayCe wrote:
I forgot Mongolian!

The traditional script (not the Soviet-imposed Cyrillic lettering).

It's vertical! The letters in any word are connected to each other vertically, instead of horizontally the way just about every other "connected" script does it.

(Obviously, I know that languages like Japanese, Chinese, etc. are often written in vertical columns, but when this is the case, the individual characters are not connected vertically--except in certain highly stylized Japanese art. But in traditional Mongolian, they are connected to each other, just like when we handwrite English in our traditional way.)

Traditional Mongolian looks so neat!! !


Mongolian is awesome, I know exactly what you're talking about but I don't think I'd have ever thought of it.

I said Cyrillic on the poll, I also really like Gaelic and Arabic.



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16 Apr 2009, 4:45 pm

Again, what do you mean by favourite?

My favourite in the sense of my ability to communicate in that language is English.

My favourite in the sense of it being a very poetic and beautiful written and spoken language is French.

My favourites in the sense of the written languages being very visually appealing are Chinese and Arabic calligraphy.



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19 Apr 2009, 9:00 am

Japanese kanji+kana is really cool, expecially when you see one you know, the thing is that i love the way how every kanji has a different meaning and is written pretty cool. Yes i still study Japanese. And i still love it.



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19 Apr 2009, 12:49 pm

It's gotta be Chinese, no contest.

C'mon, you got a cultural tradition where painting is considered to be a superficial watered down offshoot of the much higher art of calligraphy. Where each brush stroke is both an independent work of art and an essential element of a larger composition.


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20 Apr 2009, 9:55 pm

Aesthetically, I must admit to having a love of the Siddham script, which is used nowadays exclusively in Japan for Sanskrit.

Of common scripts in use today...
Latin - efficient but plain.
Hanzi (chinese) - Traditional is too complicated, but simplified is too plain. I think that Kanji is about the level of complexity I like, but it has other problems.
modern standard arabic - beautiful
hangul (korean) - meh
devanagari (hindi) - meh
cyrillic (slavic, russian) - dreadful. Too many letters open the wrong way.
kanji and kana (Japanese) - kanji are nice, kana are okay, but the two together is unattractive; the contrast of simple curved characters with rectilinearish complicated characters is discordant.

Mongolian is pretty kewl tho...


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21 Apr 2009, 2:59 pm

i don't understand the question?
should we know what these languages look like? (maybe you could provide images of it then?)
or be able to read it? (i don't know any of these)

i like reading French, but I guess that doesn't count ?