An orthography is a set of rules about the way a language is written; it includes norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word breaks, emphasis, and punctuation. For example, English has a linear orthography; read from left to right, with clear rules about when a word or sentence begins and ends.
Existing outside of known, written languages, the best representation of a nonlinear orthography is in the movie 📝Arrival; the alien language of the heptapods is written in circular puffs of smoke with no beginning or end. Information at the end of a sentence is known at the beginning, because they both exist at the same time. In this way, the entirety of the thought or sentiment is experienced at once, not in a progressive order.
In the comic book series 📝Promethea, author 📝Alan Moore applies 📝Hermetic Principles and deliberately structures the story such that it repeats at macrocosmic and microcosmic levels to rewire the minds of his readers.
Similarly, I write in 📝MythOS to expand people's perspectives with 📝Nonlinear Storytelling.
Reflections
"A lot of languages—like Slovak for example—aren't linear, but super inflected. Which makes it really difficult to learn if you come from a linear language base like English. But as you learn it, you start to chunk things mentally in a way that becomes noticeable." ~ Dr. 📝Justin Lane, PhD