<p>It's largely decorative, has vague intentions at being phonetic, and I like using it in art! The other primary use case is writing cute notes to people I like.</p>
<h4>Here's the overview of how to read circle script:</h5>
<p>To read circle script, you start at whatever spot is marked with a little line segment outside the circle, parallel to it. If that's not present, you can usually start at the bottom. Walk around the circle widdershins (counterclockwise) and decode each shape and glyph you encounter, turning them into sounds.</p>
<imgsrc="/circle_script/zagreus.svg"alt="A circle script glyph showing a single word-circle, with a small line outside the circle for a starting-point indicator."class="example-glyph"/>
<imgsrc="zagreus.svg"alt="A circle script glyph showing a single word-circle, with a small line outside the circle for a starting-point indicator."class="example-glyph"/>
<p>If you're reading a whole sentence, you walk around the circle and read each word as you come across it. For each word, you read it starting from the point where it touches the circle that contains it, so you kind of reorient as you go.</p>
<p>Also, you might have noticed that some of the shapes inside word-circles have lines connecting them. Those are decorative! A lot of the component parts of the circle script writing system have places for lines to come off. These can be connected as you like, but the... proper? I guess? fancy, perhaps? way to use them is to draw connecting lines between words which are conceptually linked. You might use those lines to connect an adjective with the noun it modifies, or the names of two people who care about each other. There's a lot of room for poetic embellishment in drawing lines between words!</p>
<p>Of course, you can also just draw the lines out in a way that looks cool. :)</p>