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andai 10 hours ago

See also: Quikscript, optimized for handwriting (but suitable for printing also).

https://www.omniglot.com/writing/quikscript.htm

And the excellent official Quikscript manual:

https://www.omniglot.com/pdfs/quikscriptmanual.pdf

The guy who invented it is called Read. Nomen est omen!

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See also, re: Reforming the English lexicon: Uncleftish Beholding

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GolfPopper 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Interesting. It makes me think of J.R.R. Tolkien's Tengwar script:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tengwar

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nine_k 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

But the large majority of texts is now typed, not handwritten. I'd optimize a writing system for fast, easy, error-resistant reading. The Latin script reads easier than this, despite its known problems, maybe because Quickscript lacks the 27 centuries of refinement.

If I were to pick an existing script, that would be either Hangul or Tengwar (with vowels). Tengwar already has an English mode, and Hangul would likely need a few adjustments, following its general principles.

	▲	andai 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> The Latin script reads easier than this How did you come to this conclusion? Is there a way to measure that? (Maybe reading speed comprehension tests? On that note I wonder if an emoji-based script would win there. Color is one of the fastest things to be processed visually. Probably the same reason we like syntax highlighting so much!) I'm assuming of course that you haven't spent the same amount of time practicing both scripts. (I assume this is also true for everyone on the Quikscript mailing list! Though it might be cool to write browser extension that translates everything into Quikscript...) But obviously there's a compelling argument for "the one everyone can already read." (Historical counterpoint: Hebrew.) That reminds me of something I heard about software. To be worth the pain of switching, an alternative application cannot be 10% better. It must be 10x better. +1 for Tengwar though, it wins on aesthetics, no contest!