Writting Rules

This is the list of the official writting rules for NeoTaylor. In the lessons there will be square brackets with a number inside of them. Those refer to one of the rules found here.

  1. Strokes are written connected to each other like in cursive.
  2. Looped strokes can have their loop on either side of the stroke.
  3. Vowels are only represented if pronounced at the start or end of a word. All vowels are represented by a beginning or final omnivowel dot. If a stroke is vertical or diagonal the dot goes on the left if beginning and to the right if ending. If a stroke is horizontal then the dot goes on top if beginning and on the bottom if ending.
  4. Diphthongs, triphones, etc are represented in the same way as normal vowels.
  5. Words are written as they sound. Not as they are exactly written in longhand.
  6. Medial H and Y should be omitted.
  7. Medial double letters should be omitted.
  8. Always write consonant pairs like Th, Ng, etc.
  9. Tend to omit articles and other words that do not add meaning to the text which cannot be infered by the reader.
  10. Words that sound like long O are written as a loop. Like the longhand letter O.
  11. If two similar straight strokes are written together such that the differentiated one (shaded, hooked, or looped) is before the undifferentiated one then the differentiated one is written with a line through it. This also applies to if a hookless or loopless letter is pronounced twice.
  12. Straight downstrokes or horizontal strokes followed by an R sound can have a small hook at the end to represent the R sound instead of the R stroke. The use of either depends on how well it joins to the next letter.
  13. Straight upstrokes followed by a K sound are always written with a small hook at the end.
  14. The consonant pair ST is written as a backwards Th stroke.
  15. If an ending hook is connected to a stroke that starts with a loop then the loop is placed on the outside of the hook.
  16. The -s suffix is always written as S even if it makes the Z sound.
  17. The -ses suffix is written as an S with an intersection.
  18. The -ed suffix is written as a disjoined D stroke. If the root word ends in D (hence -ded) then an intersection is put through the last D.
  19. The -y suffix is written as a final vowel dot.
  20. The -ing(s), -tion(s), and -ly suffix are all written as a terminal loop; distinguished by context.
  21. The following letters if written disjoined represent the following affixes:

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