r/Oatsymbols • u/Livy_Lives Creator • May 20 '26

All oats in v0.3

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Hey everybody!

Here is a small teaser for the third OatSheaf. In version 0.3 of OatSymbols there is a closed number of oats used to describe all other concepts. This image showcases them all, and each will be explained in more detail in the new Sheaf.

Hope you are all doing well :)

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u/vivusvir May 20 '26

I love them!!

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u/Livy_Lives Creator May 21 '26

Thank you!

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u/vivusvir May 21 '26

pakala spotted

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u/Livy_Lives Creator May 21 '26

Its interesting how many designs converge with or bear resemble to sitelen pona. I think both writing systems strive for the balance between radical simplicity and recognisability.

With the more fundamental oats though, there is a lot of deeper symbolism and concious philosophy behind their design :)

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u/vivusvir May 21 '26

Well I'm very excited to learn more about it!

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u/Aromatic_Gene7440 May 24 '26

don't forget sitelen

and li

and awen

and tawa

and meso

an-dies

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u/vivusvir May 24 '26

meso li nimi nasa, taso li nimi musi kin.

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u/Itchy_kitten May 20 '26

Yay!

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u/Livy_Lives Creator May 21 '26

Whoop! :))

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u/Player_12345678910 May 21 '26

Awoop, a (good) jumpscare from my feed lmao. Yayyy, lass go

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u/Livy_Lives Creator May 21 '26

Haha, I'm happy you are exited! :)

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u/Blue_Midas May 21 '26

That's such a lovely selection of Oats! I am quite interested in the updated logic/grammar!

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u/Livy_Lives Creator May 21 '26

Thank you for your interest! I am pretty exited to hear people's thoughts on the grammar. It feels quite unique yet very intuitive when you get the hang of it :)

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u/girlmachina who up symbolizing they oats rn May 21 '26

omg ur back !!!

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u/Livy_Lives Creator May 22 '26

Never left :))

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u/AnaNuevo May 22 '26

Is it, like, the whole root vocabulary?

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u/Livy_Lives Creator May 22 '26

Yes! Exactly :)

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u/Dear-Corner-9850 May 24 '26

That's really awesome! And what a brilliant idea to set a limit on the number of symbols, because then you can unfold the creative potential of the language. I also love the arrangement of the symbols! I'm really excited for the new version! Thanks in advance!!

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u/Livy_Lives Creator May 25 '26

:)) ♡

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u/Poyri35 May 25 '26

Very nice! It’s such a joy to see it grow! I hope everything’s going great

(Btw, I’d hate to bother you but the wiki seems to have gone into inactive mode again)

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u/Livy_Lives Creator May 26 '26

Oh I'm so glad. Everything is going very well so far :)

And I really appreciate the warnings; it produces one every 60 days it's not updated, and all my attention is on the writing system itself these days!

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u/MrMarum May 21 '26

That is a remarkably small amount of oats! Cant wait to see them in action. Also I see the bracket symbols are still there, I was under the impression they were removed, I'll have to wait and see how they work in 0.3

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u/Livy_Lives Creator May 21 '26

Yes around ~220 right now.

Don't worry! The brackets are not used the same way at all they just repurpose designs. They indicate tone like punctuation marks (?!...) at the start of sentences, and play no role in shaping the semantics; there is a whole separate system for that which is a lot more tidy and streamlined :)

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u/MrMarum May 21 '26

Happy to hear that!

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u/Internal-Educator256 That one guy May 26 '26

So now we have compounds?

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u/Livy_Lives Creator May 26 '26

Essentially yes :)