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# I made an alphabet

(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:02, archived)
# 'scuse me while my mind explodes trying to spell a word.
This is very woo.

*click*
(Peter_G, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:05, archived)
# I like this alphabet
but I cant read :(
(I helped save b3ta! Jamnog Sardines in her eyebrows, lobsters up and down, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:06, archived)
# I'm all in favour of your Egg Units scheme
but this furious pace of progress is just too much too soon.
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:06, archived)
#  
Dha ho thu bi! Gi ze su so chi vo :)
Or something.
(I helped save b3ta! Tangy bzzzzzzzzt, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:07, archived)
#

(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:20, archived)
# "Tha ho du gu?" is the new RIS
(I helped save b3ta! Crystal Magnet Like a diamond geezer, but better, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:35, archived)
# Sorry to lower the tone, but...
...you've just opened up a whole new world of smilies and slang.

Is the symbol going to be the new word for "fuck"? And if it is, am I correct in pronouncing it as "Ho". And is that deliberate? And if so, just how clever are you? *fears*
(Good Penny, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 10:53, archived)
# DOCTOR.. .....DOCTOR!
MY BRAIN HURTS :(
(I helped save b3ta! weaver., Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:07, archived)
# actually, it's beginning to make sense
pity i don't know the meaning of most of the words

is this pronounced "ring"?
(I helped save b3ta! weaver., Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:09, archived)
# yes
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:21, archived)
# Oooooh!


Are these pronounced

Ching
Wrong

respectively?
How would I do "stuff"? Stick the 's' and the 't' in succession? Which 's' would I use? This is great. Somebody should do a cursive font. ;)
(Good Penny, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 10:42, archived)
# as in goatse?
(I helped save b3ta! Elvis impersonator, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:38, archived)
# I am the predator and i approve of this alphabet
(Frogcloset (noun), Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:09, archived)
# Homogeneity in shape sets is neat.
Woo.
(I helped save b3ta! Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:10, archived)
# you invented nothing!
This is ancient canine alphabet. WHERE DID YOU FIND THIS?
(I helped save b3ta! PedroHin Come along & ride on a Flantastic Voyage, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:15, archived)
# Five poofs and two pianoes
This is great but I'll ahve that song in my noggin for weeks!

EDIT: Hahaha I've just seenthe second half. Tim Minchen has landed!!!

He got Wossy to take his trousers off!
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:15, archived)
#
(I helped save b3ta! Letum Your Ad here £2.40, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:17, archived)
# I think this just gave me cancer.
(Peter_G, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:19, archived)
# About seven, but I'd have to use a crowbar for the last few.
 
(I helped save b3ta! Tangy bzzzzzzzzt, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:20, archived)
# Yeah it became an onion in the last stretch.
(I helped save b3ta! monkdagola but how do you TURN a phrase?, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:22, archived)
# thet t'hit rig?
I don't know.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:24, archived)
# Damm!
(I helped save b3ta! Letum Your Ad here £2.40, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:25, archived)
# Ed: don't bother; this one is wrong.
(I helped save b3ta! Letum Your Ad here £2.40, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:31, archived)
# I just realised I missed a couple of strokes off as well.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:51, archived)
# Nice vowels
I put the STD in STUD, now all I need is U
(I helped save b3ta! monkdagola but how do you TURN a phrase?, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:21, archived)
# No 'W'?
(I helped save b3ta! Letum Your Ad here £2.40, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:25, archived)
# you'd just use a 'u' for that.
and an 'i' for 'y'.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:29, archived)
# What are the two non-consonants?
Column 3/4 center row
(I helped save b3ta! Letum Your Ad here £2.40, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:32, archived)
# I'm not sure,
I haven't managed to pronounce them yet, and they don't occur in English.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:35, archived)
# ah
How do I do vowel sounds with out a consonant then?
(I helped save b3ta! Letum Your Ad here £2.40, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:37, archived)
# take a syllable with that vowel in it,
and remove the consonant bits.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:39, archived)
# so...AEIOU
(I helped save b3ta! Letum Your Ad here £2.40, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:45, archived)
# almost.
lose the top bar too.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:47, archived)
#

(I think)
(I helped save b3ta! Letum Your Ad here £2.40, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:51, archived)
# yes you do.
actually I was also toying with the idea of allowing syllables that have the vowel first, by mirroring the whole thing left to right.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:58, archived)
# I'm not sure about that
it closes the gap for words with vowels, but it still leaves words with only vowels wanting.
i.e. "I" "ooo" "eei" "awwww/auuu" etc.
(I helped save b3ta! Letum Your Ad here £2.40, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 2:02, archived)
# Yeah what about dipthongs eh.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 2:07, archived)
# they wouldn't be mutually exclusive.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 2:07, archived)
# No, but it would add a extra layer of complexity.
I think there is an elegance in keeping it as simple as possible.
(I helped save b3ta! Letum Your Ad here £2.40, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 2:17, archived)
# So what are their characteristics?
I mean you must have had a reason for leaving a gap there, and putting some symbols in, unless they're just decoys. It's almost as if you're acting logically.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:49, archived)
# they're "dental plosives",
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_dental_plosive
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_dental_plosive
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:53, archived)
# Hullo, a new dot has appeared on one of them.
I saw this the other day:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Unknown_sealscript_item_2.jpg
Apparently those are all different ways of writing the same character in Chinese seal script. I find that quite upsetting.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:54, archived)
# yeah I missed one.
and a voice stroke.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:59, archived)
# Are the voiced and unvoiced ones particularly related to -e
and plosives related to -i, etc., or was that just a handy place to put the colour coding? "Unvoiced dental plosive" gives me the impression that the symbol gets colour-coded three times over.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 2:12, archived)
# no the same categories apply in every box,
but they overlap.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 2:13, archived)
# i wish i communicated by exploding my teeth
(I helped save b3ta! Shada, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:55, archived)
# There's still time to arrange this by attaching little blasting caps
live life to the full, try everything.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 2:00, archived)
# what's wrong with our old one
(I helped save b3ta! Shada, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:29, archived)
# it's arbitrary.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:30, archived)
# Nothing which evolves is arbitrary.
Except frogs, obviously.
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:33, archived)
# i'll arbitrate you
(I helped save b3ta! Shada, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:33, archived)
# I didn't realize you were so arbitratious.
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:37, archived)
# i am the arbitration arbiter
(I helped save b3ta! Shada, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:38, archived)
# How did you get assigned that post?
(I helped save b3ta! Letum Your Ad here £2.40, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:39, archived)
#
www.b3ta.com/board/9763089
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:39, archived)
# Frogs are arbitrary.
(I helped save b3ta! Letum Your Ad here £2.40, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:33, archived)
# it's arbitrary in the sense that the shapes of letters in the Latin alphabet don't relate to the sounds they represent in a logical way.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:41, archived)
# Do you know of a single living language which is non-arbitrary by that standard?
Or one which is genuinely perfectly consistent in its approach?
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:45, archived)
# Korean
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:46, archived)
# But I thought many native speakers of Korean fail to distinguish vowel length contrastively
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 2:03, archived)
# And that granted, the Hangeul
which technically refers to the writing system of phonetic characters, are indeed logical, more or less. But Korean language overall is not any more or less scientific than any other language...no language is really scientific as there are always inconsistencies in pronunciation and spelling.
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 2:05, archived)
# You must always blow on the pie.
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 2:08, archived)
# maybe true,
but some are better than others.
Anyway I've only presented a writing system, not a language.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 2:09, archived)
# I notice you've studiously avoided my point about the pie.
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 2:10, archived)
# it wasn't there when I started replying.
mmm pie.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 2:12, archived)
# That's more like it.

You realize I was just copy/pasting that stuff off The Google, right?
You probably shouldn't take too much notice of me.
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 2:13, archived)
# Here, have a repost. I'm sorry I'm a dick :(
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 2:16, archived)
# shiny
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 2:22, archived)
# This is wonderful
Best ever.
(I helped save b3ta! Bela Lugosi's Dad, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 2:26, archived)
# None!
but that doesn't mean it isn't still bad and wrong and evil.
(I helped save b3ta! Letum Your Ad here £2.40, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:46, archived)
# Deep Grey Gnomic
but their only word is "Geuhhhhhhhhh"
(I helped save b3ta! Shada, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:53, archived)
# Wass wrong with the IPA?
I mean, er, woo. And stuff. :)

Edit: I'm being dumb. This is more a syllabary than an alphabet, right?
(I helped save b3ta! Crystal Magnet Like a diamond geezer, but better, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:30, archived)
# it's partially arbitrary.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:37, archived)
# This goes way over my head
but I see the word labial in there, does that mean you have to speak it with the erm...OTHER lips?
(juzzard http://mycardboardlife.com, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 1:45, archived)
# Oooh, you dirty-minded girl!
(I helped save b3ta! Crystal Magnet Like a diamond geezer, but better, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 2:06, archived)
# I've tried my best.
(I helped save b3ta! Christian's Bolt and Ski, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 2:48, archived)
# FRICATIVES
sounds like something tasty
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 3:39, archived)
# Please pardon me
for being thick. How do you use this to write a "w" or a "y" sound?
(I helped save b3ta! kombu dashi, Sat 24 Oct 2009, 7:48, archived)