Bin Tahr Font Test

Just tweaked the crap out of the CSS on this blog so I can post better translations. Here's a sample.

BEn Taq---	Been Tahrr	One Two
CEm ay--	Kdeem Ahdz	Love Deeply

Even thought that took a while, I still got it to work with very little code...I'm sure that I can get it to work with less, but hey, I've spent two days on it so far...

More comments to come on how I accomplished all this with easy and small code. Phew, took a while. Now to reformat old posts.

Possible length problems

Given the fact that Bin Tahr is supposed to be simple, it will be very easy to dig myself into a hole with this concept. Due to the fact that I don't want to have words that are more than one syllable and that multiple simple words strung together are supposed to communicate complex ideas.

For instance, I was trying to come up with a way to say "human" today, and I wanted to say "one that lives with thinking", or in other words a sentient being. I ended up discerning that the way to say this was "kae mahch kdeem koot keel" literally translating as "it that lives with thinking" this was a rather long word. So I condensed it down to "kdeem keem" which means "lives thinking". Still too long, so I went with "keekd", a combination of "keel" and "kdeem", thinking and living, which in turn mean person or human.

This problem will be very familiar to me in the future, and word condensing will have to be mastered in order to maintain the simplicity and brevity of that Bin Tahr is supposed to have.

Introduction

BEn Taq---

Bin Tahr was created randomly as a result of drawing some characters on the back of a lovely woman by the name of Rachel.

The characters themselves are influenced by fictitious vampire “glyphs” commonly depicted in motion pictures. Also, I believe they are also partial to the characters that are in the “Imperial” language from the Star Wars universe seen on the planet Coruscant.

The language was designed with simplicity in mind. As I am familiar with many languages and their grammatical structure as well as their written language, I decided that many of the common current languages of the world lack readability, versatility, and compactness. Also, the grammar is based purely on logic and learn-ability.