acts of scholarly self-hatred, blatant americentrism
I started teaching myself the Thai alphabet (technically an abugida but w/ev). It is a beautiful writing system, with many distinct and practical glyphs such as: "snake", "other snake", "snake with hat", "wiggly snake with crinkled hat," "less wiggly snake with slightly more crinkled hat," "bird," "bird with tumor", "bird with fatal tumor", "goiter bird," "bird-snake," "crinkly bird snake," and "bird snake with wheels."
(deep down i know this is basically my own ignorant-ass american fault and it's not like english is a paragon of efficiency and sense either-- there might be some element of self-satire here...)
re: acts of scholarly self-hatred, blatant americentrism
@Thaminga I've seen what is effectively Hangul _fanfic_ on Omniglot, ffs. Yeah, I'm a big fan. It kinda DESERVES to be the only writing system with a holiday, yanno?
re: acts of scholarly self-hatred, blatant americentrism
@zebratron2084 Oh yes. Admittedly, a took a few cues from it for one of my own setting's writing systems.
re: acts of scholarly self-hatred, blatant americentrism
@zebratron2084 I mean, if you're -looking- for a writing system that's the paragon of efficiency, Hangul is probably a good one to look at.