#quickscript

[tokiro07]

I did a little more digging and I think I may have made a mistake in my pangram; though in IPA, "small" can be pronounced with either ɑ: (Ah) or ɔː (Aw), all Quikscript dictionaries that I've found specifically use Aw. For the sake of consistency between other Quikscript users, I have amended my pangram, and in doing so actually made it MORE efficient!

Ah, what j-oi she (the g-ay w-ih-ch) y-oo-zh-oo-uh-l-[ih] f-ow-n-d b-ai p-ue-t-ing h-eh-ks-z on eh-gz-ah-k-t-l-[ih] TH-r-ee s-m-awe-l v-o-l-z Ah, what joy she (the gay witch) usually found by putting hexes on exactly three small voles!

Now there are only 9 redundancies across 51 characters, as I was able to remove the Utter and No in "unusual", though I did end up moving the It from "in" to make "usually"

Sadly, I don't think it's as fun to not qualify the hexes as unusual, but it is better than saying "usual hexes." That would be objectively better for saving characters, at 50 w/ 8 redundancies, but it would sound awkward and be conceptually a little boring in my opinion, and I just won't stand for that

I also added in brackets so anyone using this for handwriting practice can get experience with the unique way they're written in Quikscript! If anyone has any suggestions for how I can further refine this or anything else I can add to it, like a way to incorporate Loch or Llan, I'm all ears!

[tokiro07]

Did a little research and found that not only is there already a term for a pangram that uses each grapheme only once (a "perfect pangram"), but even in orthodox English you can pretty much only get one by either using abbreviations (which I'm already doing) or loanwords, and even then you end up with something near unintelligible

So I decided to try relaxing my standards a bit and just going for a sentence that works and not sweat a couple of redundancies, though I still tried to keep them to a minimum

To that end, my pangram came out to be:

What j-oy she, the g-ay w-ih-ch, f-ow-n-d b-ai p-ue-t-ing uh-n-y-oo-zh-oo-uh-l h-eh-ks-z on eh-gz-ah-k-t-l-[ih] TH-r-ee s-m-ah-l v-oh-l-z in awe What joy she, the gay witch, found by putting unusual hexes on exactly three small voles in awe.

That gives me 53 characters total with 11 redundant graphemes

I imagine a more skilled linguist could have figured out a way to do it more succinctly, but I rather like what I came up with, and I feel pretty accomplished finally getting it done after several days of struggle

At some point I'll need to look into a font that lets me type in Senior Quikscript rather than Junior so that the letters will join and halve properly, but this is good enough for now

[tokiro07]

Pangram update

So far I've got

"What j-oy the w-i-ch f-ou-n-d p-u-t-ing k-ah-zh-u-uh-l h-eh-ks-z on b-ah-th-uh-r-s-uh-m..."

[Italics are words that are abbreviated to one letter, specifically the letters Why, They, and Ox; bolds are repeated letters]

I have Gay, Vie, She, Ye, Eat, Eight, I, Awe, Owe and Exam (gz) left to work with, but I don't know if I can make much more out of their constituent sounds without repeating anything else

I've already had to use Utter three times, I'm not too happy about that...

[baohouse]

Trying out Quickscript with my name in Vietnamese. It cuts the amount of strokes in half.

[myfontz]

[jcdietrich]

#handwriting #quickscript #fountainpen

[nellemay]

Some words are just really fun to write #monumental #handlettering #lettering #quickscript #connectorpens #sundayscribbles

[jcdietrich]

Teaching myself #quickscript. (Tutorial introduces some characters each chapter. By chapter 13 the entire thing will be in quickscript.)