{"id":414,"date":"2007-06-14T18:44:58","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T17:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/14\/con-scripts\/"},"modified":"2007-06-14T18:44:58","modified_gmt":"2007-06-14T17:44:58","slug":"con-scripts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=414","title":{"rendered":"Con-scripts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the past few months only one or two constructed scripts per week have been coming into Omniglot headquarters, sometimes fewer than that. This week however, there has been a small flood of them with five new scripts so far, two of which are now online: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/betacap.php\">Betacap<\/a>, an alternative alphabet for English invented by Polly, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/handaues.php\">Handaues<\/a>, an alphabet for a conlang invented for a calligraphy project. I&#8217;ve even been inspired to create a new script myself: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/curvetic.php\">Curvetic<\/a>, another alternative alphabet for English.<\/p>\n<p>I have numerous bits of paper scattered around my desk with ideas for con-scripts. Few of them seem to work very well when I try writing texts in them though. What I try to achieve in a script is one that looks elegant and\/or could be a real writing system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the past few months only one or two constructed scripts per week have been coming into Omniglot headquarters, sometimes fewer than that. This week however, there has been a small flood of them with five new scripts so far, two of which are now online: Betacap, an alternative alphabet for English invented by Polly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}