#latinscript

[thewarfactoryau]

Back to summoning daemons #larp #leatherwork #leatherarmor #latinscript #corset

[winterbluvixen]

Oh how i wonder what it would have been had i been entirely warped in to the substance of another body... a body but my own , treading lightly on fire at the midst of my pains , i wonder...

Herpoeticnotions --

[roamingletters-blog]

Coming back again to Barcelona to sieve through the samples of #streetlettering that I so feverishly collected. I never got to step inside this store and always saw it closed. 

[languagesahoy]

Hypothetical Futhark Evolution by JohnRaptor from Deviantart.

http://www.deviantart.com/art/Hypothetical-Futhark-Evolution-461618383

Basically, it's the hypothetical evolution of the Futhark script, You know, this guy?

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Anyways, this image demonstrates that if Futhark were to still be used, it would possibly change in this way through pretty much many of the main script changes that Latinscript had. Stuff like this made me imagine if English,Scottish,Welsh, and other Germanic languages in that area and in the Northern side were to still use this. Wouldn't that just be so weird? Ö  

[languagesahoy]

I guess I should start to tag these types of posts as "gaze" or something as today (or tonight? or this evening? Midnight? Screw time zones, it's today.) we stare into the French language. Ah yes, il est beau.

I guess this is the part where I share some things about it.

French when visually paired up with other romance languages it looks very similar to them.

An interesting difference with french though is that unlike a lot of romance languages (at least the ones i've seen), French tends to end words in consonants more often as most romance languages tend to end words in vowels.

While being a romance language French also normally has its romance language style spelling:

Barely any W's (usually replaced by pronunciation through U with another vowel.)

C and Qu is usually used over K.

Gu is usually used.

Th's usually only appear through Greek loans when Latin took those loans.

French tends to use x a lot more often than many languages. Especially of the Indo-European kind.

French, unlike a lot of romance languages is a pretty crazy horder for diacritics, even when compared to many languages of Indo-European origin and technically more than many other languages making French a lot more unique visually.

French uses the acute (é), the grave (à, è, ù), the circumflex (â, ê, î, ô, û), the dieresis (ë, ï, ü), and finally the cedille (ç).

French also uses a letter that really now sort exists in only two languages being English and well itself. English only even has this letter because French sort of put it in there. English doesn't really use it too much anymore though.

It's the Oe ligature "Œ or its lowercase, œ". It's a very rare letter. 

And finally, a very rare thing about French that no other language has is that French puts a space after their question and exclamation marks. Weird right !?!

[languagesahoy]

Link to original site and for proper poster sized download.

I've made a LatinScript appreciation poster. It includes all the used or "Alive" base characters or letters of today with no derivations with a gold and bronze theme.

[languagesahoy]

Sometimes I just like to admire the beautiful uses of scripts with languages. Latinscript has always looked strong and bold as Greek and Cyrillic tend to have the same effect but slightly different. Sometimes I will post random articles in other languages. I guess you can use it to test your knowledge of a language or just stare at it's beauty with me. =Y

English visually has some interesting visual unique-ness that many languages don't typically do as well as visually being unique in face of Germanic languages.

Silent e is quite the rarity in individual languages as that was borrowed from French.

There's slightly more th's than most Indo European languages.

English, like a Germanic language also tends to end words in consonants or now sometimes in English's case, silent e's.

English obviously is one of the few languages that don't use typically and can even live without diacritics giving it a clean or bare look to it.

The use of w and especially wh proves it's Germanic origins. 

And finally the most distinctive thing is the use of tch and dge. It's just that a lot of languages don't use thee trigraphs.