u/pessimistic_utopian

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I decided to finally experiment with adding some slant and curl to the hand. Changed my mind halfway through about what to do with the vowel carrier.

The text is tricky. It shifts on you. At the end there it changed from "art historians" to "art experts" after I'd finished writing it :(

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>I am forced into speech because men of science have refused to follow my advice without knowing why. It is altogether against my will that I tell my reasons for opposing this contemplated invasion of the antarctic—with its vast fossil-hunt and its wholesale boring and melting of the ancient ice-cap—and I am the more reluctant because my warning may be in vain. Doubt of the real facts, as I must reveal them, is inevitable; yet if I suppressed what will seem extravagant and incredible there would be nothing left. The hitherto withheld photographs, both ordinary and aërial, will count in my favour; for they are damnably vivid and graphic. Still, they will be doubted because of the great lengths to which clever fakery can be carried. The ink drawings, of course, will be jeered at as obvious impostures; notwithstanding a strangeness of technique which art experts ought to remark and puzzle over.

I was having a perfectly nice time transcribing random quotes from the list I use for calligraphy practice, then this guy showed up and I spent the next 20 minutes getting bullied by the name Antoine.

I don't know why I was so fixated on getting that labialization curl in there. Now that I've let it marinate I think the best approach is just the nasalization bar on tinco with the *oi* digraph.

Using a long vowel carrier to represent the é in Exupéry was another impulse I no longer understand. I think just the e-tehta on rómen should suffice.

Kinda wanted to use the "of" shorthand for *de* but it felt pretentious.

For a bit of fun I transliterated Liz Lemon's speech from the 30 Rock episode "Mrs. Donaghy." The Tecendil handbook didn't have a quotation mark and I didn't want to take the time to search other sources for one, so I improvised. I'd welcome being pointed to a real one.

I departed from orthography only to capture her pronunciation of "cloons."

>My husband and I are absolutely so pleased to be underwriting the Jack and Elizabeth Donaghy High School for Teen Drama, the Arts, and Feelings. As embarrassed Americans, Jack and I pledge $5 million to create a new generation of choreographers and puppeteers, "cloons", video artists, and theatrical jugglers who will ask the world, "What is art?"

We know what art is. It's paintings of horses.

Many thanks to everyone who provided feedback on my first outing! After some more practice today I took a stab at the second paragraph of the preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. I'd love any feedback.

My reflections after this piece:

• I automatically used the hooked final s on "barbarous" and immediately regretted it. I think I want to stick with the stylistic choice of using hooked s only for inflectional s and using silme for all others.
• I still haven't made peace with tehtar on silme and esse. I don't love how they end up awkwardly crowded off to the side. I've seen examples where the silme was shaped more like a 6 with the tehta below the upper curve and will try to remember to use that form when I need tehtar. I'd welcome input.
• Much like in life, deciding what to do with "conscience" was a challenge. I feel pretty good with what I came up with but as always I'd welcome correction. As a calligrapher I was tempted to combine the silme-silme nuquerna into a single hurricane-like ligature but that felt like taking too many liberties for a beginner.
• I seem to be inconsistently using both silme and esse for an s pronounced as /z/. That feels on brand for a scribe in a semi-literate society but I want to get consistent in using silme for s in orthographic mode.

Text:

>Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,

For my first attempt I transliterated the first paragraph of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights using the English Orthographic mode presented in the Tecendil handbook. I'd love any feedback from the community. Since I'm just learning the glyphs I didn't bother with capitalization.

I know I misplaced the tehta for the silent e in "preamble" - I realized my error and did it correctly in "inalienable." Any other blunders or stylistic notes? I was uncertain about the tehta placement on the first silme in "justice".

Text:

>Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Preamble

Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,