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🔥✍️🐦‍⬛ @rookscript.bsky.social · Jul 8

I made a new writing system for English! It’s called rook script and it’s a phonetic syllabic alphabet. There are 37 letters that clump together to form syllable blocks (kind of like Hangul)

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🔥✍️🐦‍⬛ @rookscript.bsky.social · 13h

Wooter ice

🔥✍️🐦‍⬛ @rookscript.bsky.social · 15h

Why is he still on this?

Phoneme chart for Latin American Spanish

Rook style phoneme chart for Latin American Spanish

El zorro ágil y marron [sic] salta el perro flojo.
Cada vez que trabo, Félix me paga un whisky añejo.

🔥✍️🐦‍⬛ @rookscript.bsky.social · 15h

My second thought is that native speakers are obviously much better situated to produce a system people want to use, which helps explain why pinyin and zhuyin are both more popular than Wade-Giles

🔥✍️🐦‍⬛ @rookscript.bsky.social · 18h

I don’t know how to transliterate 쩡창 or 싱 into pinyin and translate it but if you’re asking “hasn’t this already been done” then the answer is definitely yes and better

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🔥✍️🐦‍⬛ @rookscript.bsky.social · 19h

Every time I see it I think it’s ugly. With some love it can be rendered as beautifully as katakana but in standard web fonts it never is. Obviously it’s old and in wide use so who am I to say

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🔥✍️🐦‍⬛ @rookscript.bsky.social · 19h

Instead of doing the work I’m paid to do or the work I said I’d do on this page I adapted pinyin into a rook/hangul-style script and I’m sorry for that

Table of pinyin letters arranged so there are 26 of them (22 consonants and 4 vowels, including medials)

Table of standard Chinese rook letters in the same arrangement

Various words spelled in hanzi and rook Chinese based on pinyin, to see the shapes of the syllable blocks. At the bottom are the numbers 1-10 without corresponding hanzi
Roughly:
- Onset usually goes over coda
- A medial i sits on the top line to the right of the initial consonant, if present
- The short strokes of nuclear ə (one short stroke) and a (two short strokes) attach to the left of the coda, if present (see 江) or above if the coda is u (see 由) and if there is no coda they may attach to medial u or iu (see 国)
- /y/ and /ɥ/ are represented by iu with i in medial postion (see 女)
- If no onset consonant is present, it’s represented with a ng, (see 二), unless there is a medial (see 一, 五, and 由), unless that medial is /ɥ/ (see 元; also I spell -ian and -üan with ə rather than a)
- Syllabic consonants are represented with a repetition of the onset (see 四 and 十)
- Tones are optional and represented with accents as in pinyin

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Robert Winter @llandysul.bsky.social · 1d

Headmaster of the Llandysul garden keeping an eye on things....#birds #nature #cymru

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🔥✍️🐦‍⬛ @rookscript.bsky.social · 22h

To my great embarrassment I don’t think I’ll be correcting the affect/effect thing

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🔥✍️🐦‍⬛ @rookscript.bsky.social · 4d

Does anyone have that RBO tweet where he repaired a TV’s broken pixel and she spoke to him? I’d like to see it again

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corpse @consume.red · 2d

there's a zhuang for that

Sir Mottled said:
When Big Clod belches breath,
Its name is wind. If only it didn’t stir!
Stirring, the ten thousand apertures rage—
Have you alone never heard their roaring?
Mountain forests—fearsome, beautiful—
huge trees, hundreds of spans round,
their apertures and hollows
like noses, like mouths, like ears;
like sockets, like bowls, like mortars;
like swamps, like bogs—
spouters, whizzers,
bawlers, suckers,
shouters, howlers,
wailers, screamers—
the leaders chanting gwraaa, the followers chanting qrommm—
a cool breeze makes a small harmony; stormwinds make a big harmony;
the sharp winds cease, and the manifold apertures empty—
Have you alone never seen this melodious motion,
this flittery flutter?

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🔥✍️🐦‍⬛ @rookscript.bsky.social · 2d

Basically Rage (Kitchen Sink) by Anamanaguchi is the GenAm version of Big For Your Boots by Stormzy

🔥✍️🐦‍⬛ @rookscript.bsky.social · 2d

This is especially extreme with Hungarian names, which are basically only said in the correct order when speaking Hungarian

🔥✍️🐦‍⬛ @rookscript.bsky.social · 2d

I think it has to do with contact, on both ends. Anglo people are more used to talking about Japanese people, so they’re less likely to say their name in the (correct) foreign way. And Japanese people may also be more used to being referred to in western name order and less likely to correct it

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🔥✍️🐦‍⬛ @rookscript.bsky.social · 2d

This is my cellar door

🔥✍️🐦‍⬛ @rookscript.bsky.social · 3d

拉布布

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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 3d

Four illustrations by Frederick Richardson for “The Three Little Pigs,” GREAT CHILDREN’S STORIES (Hubbard Press, 1972).

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🔥✍️🐦‍⬛ @rookscript.bsky.social · 3d

That’s neat the pen is reading your mind it knows where your strokes are coming from and where they’re going

拉布布 with the starts and ends of some strokes circled

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🔥✍️🐦‍⬛ @rookscript.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah it looks like it has better contrasting stroke width than a ballpoint. It’s supposed to also be better for the connecting filaments of 行书 as well