Minimalist

[Bill Reese]

Val,
Oh I don't have a need to simplify signs.  For me it's a fun exercise in 
wondering what the future will bring to SignWriting.  Chinese characters 
transformed from something easy to understand to something more 
cryptic.  Still, there are components within each Chinese character 
that, with training, are recognized to have particular meaning - like a 
personal descriptor for characters relating to a person, a house 
descriptor for characters relating to location.

This transformation took a very long time and my exercise was one more 
towards what people may do, when writing by hand, to begin a 
simplification that is still understandable.

Bill


Valerie Sutton wrote:

> Hello Bill -
> I can understand your need to simplify the writing of some signs...I  
> can understand your shortcuts, but that is because I know the writing  
> system in advance...and what it could be...But this is why I choose  
> to write simplified spellings for everyday use...we don't change the  
> actual symbols as you have, but we write least amount of detail  
> necessary to understand the sign and not confuse it with another  
> sign...Val ;-)
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> On Sep 3, 2005, at 3:28 PM, Bill Reese wrote:
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>> I like to play with the idea of SW transformation every now and  
>> then.  I got the idea from Chinese characters, which started out  
>> with many items clearly drawn; then changed over centuries,  
>> gradually becoming what they are today.
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>> I just took three of Stefan's signs which had a lot of detail in  
>> them and minimized the blank areas, spaces and face circle.   Do  
>> they still convey the signs?
>>
>> Bill
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