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(Morning, PCSA homeworld. Kazim approaches a busted up weather control tower. Camera is stationary, viewing Kazim from the right, panning to follow him. Where the pieces of this tower have broken apart, the outer shell is jagged, and various frayed, sparking wires and cables protrude from them. The pieces hang together barely by stubborn pieces of cable that didn't tear. Kazim crouches near the tower. Camera travels toward Kazim.  He eyes it for a moment, before opening the panel cover on his wrist-guard. Camera stops traveling when it is slightly behind Kazim but shows him in profile. His wris

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I can't wait to get photoshop back. This took forever! And didn't even turn out so fantastic. I put the IPA symbols next to some of the more non-standard sounds. If you get curious, you can look up what the symbols mean at this [link]

Thanks!
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~JaiLatte Feb 5, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Such a pretty and simple alphabet! I'm wondering where inspiration for this came from? Or were they random doodles that turned into something wonderful?
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~Nefarious-Fox Feb 5, 2011
The shape of the letters were vaguely inspired by the shape of the mouth required to make the sounds. But not explicitly so. There was a lot of doodling to inspire the overall motivation.

Thanks for your kind words!
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~JaiLatte Feb 5, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Woah! That's a really neat idea! It must be handy to be able to recognize letters because of the sound they make... that didn't quite make sense, but hopefully you know what I meant. XD

No problemo!
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`SanguineEpitaph Jan 30, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
Interesting!
Ahhhhh, the alveopalatal affricate is the bane of my life.
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=Skeleton-Boy Jul 18, 2010  Professional General Artist
I spent a good two hours looking up different writing systems at this website

Michael can testify.

So I find this very fascinating.
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~Nefarious-Fox Jul 18, 2010
Oh, Omniglot is like my favorite website ever! That's how I learned (and then forgot) to write in Mongolian.

My final project in Graphic Design class was an instructional pamphlet on how to construct an alphabet, so this was especially fun for me. I wish there was a clearer way to explain the sounds than having to resort to the IPA symbols. Maybe I'll add something to the artists comment section.
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=Skeleton-Boy Jul 18, 2010  Professional General Artist
I saw a version of the IPA alphabet where they explained the sounds by showing american english words with the particular sounds underlined. That might be more useful for people who aren't familiar with IPA.
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~Nefarious-Fox Jul 18, 2010
Most of the IPA symbols used here represent sounds that aren't necessarily present in the English language, notably the Palatal Flap, the Alveolar Lateral Fricative, and the Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate. I'd really have to explain the basics of phonetics for them to mean anything. Maybe I'll make a video. Or, maybe not, because that might be odd.
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=Skeleton-Boy Jul 18, 2010  Professional General Artist
I will be honest and say that I have ABSOLUTELY NO idea what words like alveoleolar friction palette flapping mean.
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~Nefarious-Fox Jul 18, 2010
Lol, okay:

Alveolar: Sounds made by placing the tongue behind or near the teeth. (S, T, N, D, L)
Fricative: Sounds made by forcing air through a narrow passage and creating turbulence (H, S, Sh, F)
Flap, or tap: Sounds made by momentarily bouncing the tongue against a surface in the mouth: (The T in water, or the r in the Spanish word "quiero")
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