Posted by: confused_soul June 27, 2009
Open challenge to all NEWARS!!! Do you know about Ranjana ??
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@ sexy in sari Ya the title was to catch as many people as possible...And so u not upto challenge?

@ naivelyStupid I guess u are true too your name. Well Ranjana is a special script my friend, if you didn't know. It is usually written for decorative and holy ritual purpose. Nowdays, it is used for mainly for headlines and titles. Well I hope you have heard about discussion about whether to give preference to Ranjana or prachalit as nepal bhasa script. Reason I am insisting on Ranjana on this thread is due to fact that Ranjana is not extensively used. And for such purpose like writing names I believe Ranjana is perfect. Ranjana was entered as one the offical script of Nepal when nepal joined UN as a free nation and still recognized as one of the most beautiful scripts in the world. It is found in so many countries and so why not make it popular in nepal too?  Don't you think it bears some significance..

So you are talking about Bhrami script..Okie..It is preety old script and ya it is also parent script of even Dev nagari. However we as nepalese can't claim brahmi to be our's own of origin.

As you have said scripts are matter of identity and if you aren't fond of your identity, there is very little I can say to you.

I can point out to you many ways how Ranjana is a special script but really if you aren't fond of ya identity it is useless discussion. Although Ranjana is usually written from left to right but the Kutakshar form is written from top to bottom which makes it preety much very special as most of the scripts in the world is either written from left to right or right to left.

Besides Ranjana is a more of a calligraphic script which by definition is more beautiful. Any person who had love and regard for art would probably agree with my previous statement as chinese and arabic are also considered beautiful piece of art.

Regarding technical aspect, Ranjana can represent all the sound that you would probably can associate with because it was used to write nepal bhasa and sanskrit also.

Regarding representation of sounds, Oh you are so misguided my friend. Scripts are not always directly related to any particular langauge as in the case of Ranjana. It has been used all over the world. So it can actually represnt more sound than you can think of.If you think chinese system of writing is better, ask your chinese friend how many alphabets does he knows in chinese. Besides, chinese script alphabets aren't representation of sounds , rather they are for objects. Each alphabet is for each object. I wonder how did you come to your conclusion.  Your name can't even be exactly represented in chinese....Truly, you are as your name says...naivelyStupid.

And yes writing is also form of expression...and also art...

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