Zompist Bboard Again

I do not understand the two-capital-letter boldface labels you give to your “series”.
(Some are three-capital-letters. Some are one capital letter. Some are one uppercase + one lowercase letter.)
Not all of them correspond to notes in the white-on-black table in your signature.
So I’m not sure I understand even those!
…
What do your series’s labels mean?
Or, maybe, what do you mean by “series”?
….
Thanks!
This seems very interesting to me, even though I understand less of it that than what I don’t understand!

TomHChappell wrote: ↑Sun Jan 26, 2025 10:45 pm I do not understand the two-capital-letter boldface labels you give to your “series”.
(Some are three-capital-letters. Some are one capital letter. Some are one uppercase + one lowercase letter.)
Not all of them correspond to notes in the white-on-black table in your signature.
So I’m not sure I understand even those!
…
What do your series’s labels mean?
Or, maybe, what do you mean by “series”?

IIRC these are phonetic series, so I believe they’re just phonemes: the ‘RG series’ would be used in words containing ⟨rg⟩, the ‘QG series’ in words containing ⟨qg⟩, and so on.

bradrn wrote: ↑Sun Jan 26, 2025 10:52 pm

TomHChappell wrote: ↑Sun Jan 26, 2025 10:45 pm …

IIRC these are phonetic series, so I believe they’re just phonemes: the ‘RG series’ would be used in words containing ⟨rg⟩, the ‘QG series’ in words containing ⟨qg⟩, and so on.

Thanks! I’ll ask Twin Aster to confirm.

TomHChappell wrote: ↑Sun Jan 26, 2025 11:07 pm

bradrn wrote: ↑Sun Jan 26, 2025 10:52 pm

TomHChappell wrote: ↑Sun Jan 26, 2025 10:45 pm …

IIRC these are phonetic series, so I believe they’re just phonemes: the ‘RG series’ would be used in words containing ⟨rg⟩, the ‘QG series’ in words containing ⟨qg⟩, and so on.

Thanks! I’ll ask Twin Aster to confirm.

bradrn is correct. Those are the initials for the series of glyphs—CC has seven vowels listed in the customary order /a ɛ ə ɔ i ɨ u/.

MV series



BV series



NV series

DV series



QV series



JV series



CV series



GV series



All the two-consonant onsets are accounted for; only the triconsonantal onsets are left. We're in the home stretch now.

RDV series



RDG series



XT series



CTR series



CRN series



CTG series



And there we have it. I might make alternative/multiple phonetic radicals for some of these later, but other than that…here we are.

Man in Space wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2025 9:56 pm In the form in which it was principally promulgated back in the day, Caber logograms (toqitŭvadar¹ or qanvan²) were originally made using a small brush (ŭmŭ means both 'paint' and 'write'); however, they originally designed from scoring on wood (because druids, after all). They weren't the only ones to discover writing³, but they were the first, around the XXI C. BC.

Returning to this point: I rediscovered my old calligraphy brush. It’s a very bad one (complete with some kind of squeezy internal paint source that smells really terrible for some reason), and on top of that I’m awful at brush calligraphy, but I’ve at least proven to my own satisfaction that bottom-to-top writing is practical with a brush. The shapes of these radicals are rather intricate, but after a few goes I at least managed to write this one successfully.