{"id":8416,"date":"2013-03-23T17:02:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T17:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=8416"},"modified":"2013-03-23T17:02:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T17:02:04","slug":"emergent-con-scripts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=8416","title":{"rendered":"Emergent con-scripts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago I had an idea for trying to construct a script with symbols based on representations of natural phenomena &#8211; animals, birds, plants, features of the landscape, etc &#8211; which would be linked to the sounds via <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Acrophony\">acrophony<\/a>. Then to simplify the images a number of times until I have a set of letters, a bit like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alphabetsynthesis.com\/\">Alphabet Synthesis Machine<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Most writing systems currently in use are derived ultimately from Egyptian Hieroglyphs, which developed from pictures of objects, people, animals, etc, and I thought would be interesting to try to simulate that process and see what emerged. I haven&#8217;t come up with anything very interesting yet, but am still working on it.<\/p>\n<p>Have any of you tried something like this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago I had an idea for trying to construct a script with symbols based on representations of natural phenomena &#8211; animals, birds, plants, features of the landscape, etc &#8211; which would be linked to the sounds via acrophony. Then to simplify the images a number of times until I have a set of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8416","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\/8416","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=8416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}