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Hello all!

This chapter is for glyphs in Classic Bittic that didn't fit neatly into other categories and how they fit into the grammar. For those who don't know, Classic Bittic is an auxlang for a fictional spacefaring civilization. It uses binary digits, represented here as black and white pixels, to form 4x4 "glyphs". The language is entirely pictographic and does not encode phonology.

The "STOP" glyph being purely a statement separator instead of a statement end was done to reduce the number of glyphs needed per message. Besides, you'll know that the last statement ended because it's at the end of the message. The doubling of that glyph for emphasis was to make the emphasized statement easier to see among other statements.

The inclusive and exclusive distinction in "or" was chosen to match classical logic which made the language feel more sci-fi to me.

Bracketing yes/no questions with the "question" glyph was inspired partly by Spanish Orthography.

Thank you all for reading this! Comments and critiques are welcome!

u/Bitian6F69 — 12 days ago