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Do you know alternative scripts for your language? If so, can you talk about them? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I mean scripts like Shavian or Quikscript. Are these script useful to you in your day-to-day life? How are they better than the original scripts of your language?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The writing system has its flaws too.

I and l look the same.
0 and O look the same.
Why are their two totally different cases? Q looks nothing like q and the distinction serves no communicative purpose
Similarly, why is there printed letters and joined-up letters – two totally different ways of writing?
Loops are sometimes merely stylistic, but some letters like say b has a loop that is essential to it.
b and d are mirror-images, and this confuses some children
"dot your I-s and cross your T-s" – the pen has to be lifted from the page to do this, so people don't always bother.

Some of these might sound like non-issues to grown-ups, but they're hard for children.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

joined-up letters

Do you mean cursive?