Talk:Conlang/Beginner/Writing

Shorten
Maybe this article should be shortened, and some of the material moved to an Intermediate Conscripting article. --Jim Henry 22:21, 10 August 2005 (UTC)


 * I tentativly agree. Any ideas on which topics to move? -- Ingolemo 19:08, 11 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Probably most of the material in the "Glyphs" section, and the bit about boustrophedon in the "Writing Direction" section. Also the "now you can write in your own script" bit. --Jim Henry 21:14, 11 August 2005 (UTC)


 * I should mention that I'm a little wary of editing this article myself due to an off-wiki incident that I don't want to get into. But, by all means, go ahead yourself. - Ingolemo 18:43, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

Recommendation
The Beginner section is supposed to avoid overwhelming the novice with details and technical terms. I'm not going to prune right now, because Intermediate/Writing is itself in trouble, and it seems prudent to wait to prune here until after one can compare this to a stable version of that. At a minimum, though, the terms for different types of scripts (abugidas, etc.) don't belong here, and the detailed identifications of different examples are a bit overwhelming too. If there are parentheticals under the script type bullets at all, they should probably be short and sweet, like they were a year or more ago. (The introduction of the distinction between Japanese kana and kanji, which looked like such a reasonable step at the time since one certainly doesn't want misinformation in the Beginner section, seems to have been where these parentheticals started down the slippery slope to where they are now.) Pi zero (talk) 13:00, 3 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Okay, I've done the "minimum", lopping off the technical terms and detailed examples from the types of scripts. Pi zero (talk) 00:26, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Writing in Circles?
Near the end there is a reference to Ogham being written in a circle, yet I find no reference to that in the Wiki article. Can we get an editor to either fix the mention here or add the relevant info there?

Thanks, Westley Turner (discuss • contribs) 21:08, 6 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Searching the Internet, the Buckquoy spindle-whorl is an example. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 04:06, 7 November 2017 (UTC)