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polyglot
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 Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 5:50 pm Post subject: Sarachey and Werbehn. |
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These are my two best conscripts. I call them Sarachey and Werbehn. In my conworld they are used by two warring countrys.
Sarachey is a cursive style script. used by the "good guys" of my conworld. Its a improved version of a previous conscript.
You can see a sample of it here
I based Werbehn off of hebrew and tengwar. Its used by the "bad guys" of my conworld.
You can see a sample of it here
in case your wondering they both say "if you see the light at the end of the tunnel. make sure its not the train coming." the same quote on my signature.
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eldin raigmore
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| Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 11:38 pm Post subject: Re: Sarachey and Werbehn. |
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| polyglot wrote: | Sarachey is a cursive style script. used by the "good guys" of my conworld. Its a improved version of a previous conscript.
You can see a sample of it here |
It looks very alien; it's hard to tell it's writing. (Doesn't mean it isn't, of course.)
| polyglot wrote: | I based Werbehn off of hebrew and tengwar. Its used by the "bad guys" of my conworld.
You can see a sample of it here |
This looks a lot more like writing. If I saw the Sarachey I wouldn't be sure it was writing; seeing the Werbehn I can tell it's writing, just in a script I don't know.
| polyglot wrote: | | they both say "if you see the light at the end of the tunnel. make sure its not the train coming." |
That's a good one.
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Tolkien_Freak
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| Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 2:40 am Post subject: |
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They're both pretty. (Ironically, even Werbehn is.) I also agree with Eldin's comments.
I'd be interested to see how Sarachey works, since it looks so unusual. |
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Zearen Wover
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| Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 10:47 pm Post subject: |
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I was going to write a nice long message for you, but your sample wasn't big enough, so all I managed to write was this :p :
Rudeness aside, I really like this script; it actually achieves the hidden writing I tried to achieve with Geingnorsh. If one (well, myself at least) saw this written along a wall or something to that effect, I doubt they'd realize it's a script. Thus the reason I take interest: If I were to write it and someone asked me what I was doing, I could brush them off by saying, "Just scribbling."
The second was extremely more difficult to figure out. Sometimes the vowels were written, and other times they weren't. It didn't seem to be related to the vowel either. I still felt there were some more subtle things I was missing.
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polyglot
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| Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 4:59 am Post subject: |
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| Zearen Wover wrote: |
The second was extremely more difficult to figure out. Sometimes the vowels were written, and other times they weren't. It didn't seem to be related to the vowel either. I still felt there were some more subtle things I was missing. |
What you might be missing is in Werbehn if there are two marks either on top and bottom or both on top it means that the letter is either punctuation, or an abbreviated word (such as the first letter in the Werbehn sample means the word "if").
Plus there are only 14 letters in Werbehn. The rest of the letters are distinguished by adding marks on either top or bottom (the marks are not the vowels themselves).
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eldin raigmore
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| Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 1:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Zearen Wover wrote: | | Rudeness aside, I really like this script; it actually achieves the hidden writing I tried to achieve with Geingnorsh. If one (well, myself at least) saw this written along a wall or something to that effect, I doubt they'd realize it's a script. Thus the reason I take interest: If I were to write it and someone asked me what I was doing, I could brush them off by saying, "Just scribbling." |
What he said. If "hidden writing" (is that "cryptography"?) were one of your goals, I think you achieved it.
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