{"id":2798,"date":"2014-12-19T17:19:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T22:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/?p=2798"},"modified":"2015-01-15T22:32:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T22:32:04","slug":"steerscript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2014\/steerscript","title":{"rendered":"Steerscript"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a script derived from something much like the Roman alphabet and used to write an English-like language that has evolved over the course of centuries, separated from any other speakers. There are some distinct features of it; noticeably, the “qu” digraph is extinct, though the various “*h” digraphs remain. You’ll notice also that the\u00a0x <\/em>is the familiar one we use as the most basic element of algebra and logic. You’ll also note that several other commonly used Greek letters \u2014 rho and phi \u2014 are hybridized with their Roman counterparts.<\/p>\n

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There are several pieces of punctuation missing here, though you can see a couple of examples in the sentence. The > means “follows”, like we use a colon. The : ends a sentence. Quotations use \u00ab\u00bb, as are used in Europe. Any punctuation inside the quotes works exactly as it’s spoken; that is, sentences end with : or !(which means what it means for us.) A list of shared elements of a list (“Bright, cold, windy day”) use a \u02d8 to indicate “and”, while a list of options (“Blue, green, red, or black”) use either \u00d7 (“or”), \u2295 (“exclusive or”), or \u2297 (“nor”). Capital letters start sentences and proper nouns, like we do in 20th c. English.<\/p>\n

This particular sample is an “abcdario”, used as a teaching tool. I’ll let you figure out the sentence at the bottom for yourself! A warning, though: it contains spoilers for The Steerswoman<\/a>. If you haven’t read the series, you’re missing out on a fantastic piece of speculative fiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a script derived from something much like the Roman alphabet and used to write an English-like language that has evolved over the course of centuries, separated from any other speakers. There are some distinct features of it; noticeably, the “qu” digraph is extinct, though the various “*h” digraphs remain. You’ll notice also that … Continue reading “Steerscript”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-language","category-science","category-xenoglyphs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2818,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798\/revisions\/2818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}