Paul Bennett wrote:
>
> Herman writes:
> >>>>>>
>
> One of my old langsketches, Tallingardernashkeltethsan, has an alphabet
> that's written in 3-character blocks, CVC, from top to bottom within each
> block, something like:
>
> T  L  G  D  N  K  T  S
> A  I  A  E  A  E  E  A
> L  Ng R  R  Sh L  Th N
> <<<<<<
> I posted a phonol sketch (called m"/21aw) a while back that was going to
> get a script that was almost identical to that in every respect, though
> neccessarily more complex, due to there being more parts to a syllable.
>
> I feel all grumpy now, knowing someone else got there first.  Boo-hoo :-)
>

        I happens all the time for me. I think I found a feature nobody ever
used, and one or two months later I find that it already exists in a
conlang or even a natlang. Well, that's not so much a problem.
Originality in conlanging doesn't come from the feature we put inside
our languages but from the way we assemble them.

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