Talk:Runestaff

Apologies, as I haven't learned much proper Anglish yet. Perhaps, since our runestaff is to be a modern invention borrowing from ancient concepts, we have the opportunity to create an alphabet which maps broadly to all/most sounds native to Theedish/Germanic languages. Perhaps also one may consider creating a single special character combined with another rune which will denote a certain foreign sound. For example, the "sch" in Schubert indicates that a voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant fricative /∫/ should take place. This way we can take out sounds that are largely foregin to Theedish tongues (for example, /dʒ/ in jump and /ʒ/ in azure) while allowing other Theedish tongues to adopt our runestaff as their own as well, and with no confusion as to pronounce words. In addition, why not put in dipthongs like the ei as in "ice" since they're treated as a singular sound anyway? Certain runes may be understood to map to several different sounds, though, as there are many ways to pronounce an "r," or "b" that are either sufficiently different but irrelevent to the word's meaning or in free variation with another sound. Here are some suggested ammendments:

Add a rune for /y/ (that is ü). Try a variant of ur.

Add a rune for /ø/ (that is ö). A varient of othala would work nice for this.

Add a rune for /ç/ (the "ch" in lochness monster). Hagal would work best for this.

Ideally, lttle accent marks would be unncessary, and related sounds would be grouped together by adding a stem here or there on a rune, similar to how ᚪ looks like ᚫ. Veithryr (talk) 23:25, September 12, 2016 (UTC)

We may also consider various other symbols, such as the dot ᛫ to seperate words of the same sentence, in inspiriation of strings from computer science and in allowing novel ways to program things (no more underscores, sentences are processed by words connected by a dot operator--useful for creating bots and AI). Let's use this opportunity to create other punctuation marks as well, like, for example a superscripted dot to clarify numbers without incurring mathematical confusion. (This is a common problem; do you write one hundred thousand as 100000, 100,000, 100 000, or 100.000?) Let's make this script notationally superior to impress upon academics that we mean buisness. Veithryr (talk) 23:25, September 12, 2016 (UTC)

Also, we must come up with a lowercase or miniscule version of runes, with most needing only one pen stroke (up to a maxiumum of two strokes) in order that this catch on; capitcal letters may take significantly longer to write, but lowercase runes must be efficient to write and convey the same essence--b looks similar to B, t to T, and so on. Veithryr (talk) 23:25, September 12, 2016 (UTC)