#imagine that learning the full vocabulary of Traditional Elvish writing is one of the marks of adulthood
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elvish and dwarvish should have logographies in addition to syllabaries or alphabets
#dwarvish palaces and temples and mausoleums should be covered in glyphs recording histories#elves should complex lexographic calligraphy#I feel like the gnomish language is too complex and by necessity too modular to keep a logography in practical common use#but I don't really know enough about languages to assert that very strongly#the big problem with this for me is that I do like using tengwar for elvish but#Professor Alphabets developed that from his own linguistic expertise and without 'evolved from lexographs' in mind 🤔#like even if you assert 'well tengwar was Invented whole cloth by like An Elf or a cadre of elvish scholars'#you'd still generally assume they'd start with familiar writing symbolism as starting points for what sound should look like what 🤔#and like. not that I was gonna actually sit here and invent Elvish Hanzi myself#but the very concept of trying to extrapolate backwards a logography out of an already existing alphabet and not the other way around is 😰#ANYWAY. I have no idea what brought this on lmao#it's not even useful/ relevant to me personally lmaooo I don't DM and I don't play any dwarves or elves#imagine that learning the full vocabulary of Traditional Elvish writing is one of the marks of adulthood#maybe the simplified/ alphabetic script was created to communicate with others since writing in traditional elvish is so complex to learn#worldbuilding
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