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Secret language aliens taught me
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DeadorAlive
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I missed my old username
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brainiac3397
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Did you just substitute latin letters with something else?
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Radical
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brainiac3397
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It's looks like a mix of runic, phonecian and latin
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DeadorAlive
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RE: Secret language aliens taught me
(05-24-2014 10:54 AM)brainiac3397 Wrote: Did you just substitute latin letters with something else?
In a way I did. Every character you see is not just based on a separate letter itself, but actual sounds the letters in English words make. Its complicated to explain it.
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brainiac3397
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I had made my own language once. Complete with phonetics, grammar and vocabulary. Took me a while...
I even gave it a base-6 numbering system. Or was it base-5. Nope...definitely base-6
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DeadorAlive
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You know that guy with the signature that says "ku klatu du" or something. Is that his own language?
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Pla...er, the one who goes by "no", is an enigma. Nothing about him appears to be certain.
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brainiac3397
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Note that the english language lacks something other non-latin languages possess. The "name" of a letter also generally can serve as a vocabulary word itself.
But in English(and latin/german dervied languages don't seem to possess such a trait)
Then you've got East asian that doesn't necessarily have an alphabet but rather "syllables" that mean something.
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I can confirm it seems there are some Runic letters in it. I can comfirm one Runic letter and 4 possible Runic letters, and 2 letters that might be runic, but it isn't likely. It seems to have no consistency with any of the Versions of Runic(Elder Futhark, Younger Futhork(Danish Futhork, Swedish-Norwegian / Short-twig / Rök Runes, Norwegian Futhark, Gothenburg / Bohuslän Runes), and Medieval (Latinised) Futhark).
Some refrence I used: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/runic.htm
Also it seems there might be a character which I think might be runic, but it isn't listed on the site, it's the upside-down V looking character.
Edit: More rune information: http://viking-source.com/Runes-Guide.html
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The thing in my signature? That's lojban. It roughly translates to "go fuck yourself."
Hello, traveler.
This is an ancient account I have not used in a long time. My views have changed much in the intervening months and years.
Nonetheless, I refuse to clean it up. Pretending that I've held my current views since the beginning of time is what we in the industry call a lie. Asking people to do so contributes to moralistic self-loathing. "See, those people have nothing damning! I do! I'm truly vile!"
Because you can never be a good person with a single blemish on the moral record, I thought that simply entertaining some thoughts made me irredeemable. Though I don't care for his writing style, William Faulkner presents a good counterexample. He went from being a typical Southern racist to supporting the civil rights movement. These days we'd yell at him for that, probably.
People are allowed to change their views.
Nevertheless, this period of my life has informed some of how I am today. In good ways and bad ways. To purge it would be to do a disservice to history. Perhaps it will not make anyone sympathetic, but it may help someone understand.
If, after reading all this, you still decide to use the post above as evidence that I am evil today, ask yourself if you have never disagreed with the moral code you now follow. In all likelihood you did, at some point. If some questions are verboten, and the answer is "how dare you ask that," don't expect your ideological opponents to ever change their minds.
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lol
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(05-24-2014 11:53 AM)Chanku Wrote: I can confirm it seems there are some Runic letters in it. I can comfirm one Runic letter and 4 possible Runic letters, and 2 letters that might be runic, but it isn't likely. It seems to have no consistency with any of the Versions of Runic(Elder Futhark, Younger Futhork(Danish Futhork, Swedish-Norwegian / Short-twig / Rök Runes, Norwegian Futhark, Gothenburg / Bohuslän Runes), and Medieval (Latinised) Futhark).
Some refrence I used: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/runic.htm
Also it seems there might be a character which I think might be runic, but it isn't listed on the site, it's the upside-down V looking character.
Edit: More rune information: http://viking-source.com/Runes-Guide.html
I didn't base this on any other alphabet intentionally. I designed the letters of this cypher to be easy to write like the English alphabet, but distinctive from them.
edit: I borrowed a few letters from the English alphabet.
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Yeah which letters from the English alphabet that might have been runic are classified as part of the 4.
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