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=== Seeing Characters === | === Seeing Characters === | ||
Standard Brooding letters are faces with at least one eye open. These are called seeing characters (as opposed | |||
to blind characters). These characters each represent sounds in Brooding, either single sounds or 'blends', | |||
double consonants that can appear at the beginning of a syllable. Every possible sound or blend that can begin a | |||
syllable has its own character in Brooding. | |||
====Vowels==== | ====Vowels==== | ||
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| [[File:Brooding-sk.gif|frameless|right|<sk>]] || '''sk''' /sk/ || [[File:Brooding-sp.gif|frameless|right|<sp>]] || '''sp''' /sp/ || [[File:Brooding-st.gif|frameless|right|<st>]] || '''st''' /st/ | | [[File:Brooding-sk.gif|frameless|right|<sk>]] || '''sk''' /sk/ || [[File:Brooding-sp.gif|frameless|right|<sp>]] || '''sp''' /sp/ || [[File:Brooding-st.gif|frameless|right|<st>]] || '''st''' /st/ | ||
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==== Notes ==== | |||
Sometimes seeing characters can be used on their own in place of a word. In this case, they act much like a blind | |||
character in that they represent the entire word as a sort of abbreviation. There are two ways that a solitary | |||
seeing character can be interpreted: | |||
* Each seeing character has a name. A solitary character can represent that name instead. It could be an actual name, or the name used in a metaphorical sense. | |||
* Some of the characters are associated with a numeral or number. One of these characters alone can symbolize that number. | |||
The above possibilities are in addition to the possibility that a single seeing character might represent a word | |||
that is a consonant or blend followed by a vowel. All of these usages are ambiguous and a reader will have to | |||
determine from context which seems appropriate. | |||
A sequence of seeing characters can be a sequence of numerals as well, if all of the characters could potentially | |||
be numerals. This is indicated by the inclusion of the blind character number indicator. The blind | |||
character itself can appear anywhere in the numeral sequence. | |||
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| [[File:Brooding-num.gif|frameless|right|<#>]] || '''#''' | |||
|} | |} | ||