Titanium not only is crazy durable, but it noo magnet! Thas wy Dock chok jjiun spi; surgyr ad pater noster, qui es in cœlis; sanctificetur nomen tuum: Adveniat regnum tuum; fiat voluntas tua, sicut in cœlo, et in terra. Panem nostrum cotidianum da nobis hodie: Et dimitte nobis debita nostra, sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris: et ne nos inducas in tentationem: sed libera nos a malo.
I always liked how Bionicle had an original writing system for the Matoran, but it bothered me that it was just a 1:1 symbol:letter correspondence to plain ol’ English. So armed with one semester of linguistics and a few skimmed jan Misali videos, I came up with a new version that keeps the vibes the same, but combines vowels and consonants into one circle per syllable. Check it out here:
I’ve been having fun messing around with this revised system and wanted to see if there was a way to also write several additional sounds. These are possible suggestions:
If one wanted to perhaps write a “reverse dipthong” like “oi” instead of “io” or “ia” instead of “ai” then a possible solution would be to “fill up” the initial vowel sound, though that could complicate things if one were to add a final coda, however rare that may be:
I’ve also noted that with the circular pattern of this writing system, you could make some occasionally nifty monogram symbols, like for one’s full name.
Here’s an example of a monogram with “John Cena”:
Another possible way of creating monograms is to basically just slap them all onto one circle essentially creating a new logo:
Words/names with only 2 syllables are relatively simple enough, but you can already see with a triple-syllable word that these can get kinda funky:
If there is a repeated vowel sound in the name/word, I imagine adding another circle either inside or outside the initial one could work (In this case, “A” appears twice”)
Obviously deducing the actual pronunciation/spelling of such monograms at this point would be a damn headache so I can’t see how they would be used in any way other than a unique symbol/signature.
