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New alphabet?

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Oct 22, 2003 ctishman link
:P
Oct 22, 2003 a1k0n link
"Hmmm, will the Waylonist bible be printed in Waylonics?"

Only if the Waylonist bible reads like the Ferengi laws of acquisition, phrased in terms of pilots, ships, pirates, and merchandise.
Oct 22, 2003 Pyro link
Mmmm... Ferengi...
Oct 26, 2003 Usafunrunner link
My Waylonic book goes to 11 ;p
Oct 28, 2003 ziffus link
I can't read that sign... is... is that pig latin?

Oct 28, 2003 HumpyThePenguin link
esyay? 1k0naay siay astytay!

and now for some REAL latin:
Lemus est aborem molestus :P
Nov 01, 2003 HumpyThePenguin link
Seems the new alphabet is an actually new charset on the signs, anybody up to helping me decode it? (if it is a simple substitution cipher)
Nov 01, 2003 ctishman link
Yeah. let's Photoshop-caption the signs until the real translations come up!
Nov 01, 2003 crazydeb8r link
Well, when you get it, tel us all.
Nov 01, 2003 HumpyThePenguin link
lol, but anyway, the Unofficial Waylonics Translating team has been hard at work this afternoon...translating..
Comprised mostly of Itani, the team has translated, or so we like to think, a sign saying "Welcome" another with "Ship dock here" on it, and yet another advertising for a starship store!
Nov 01, 2003 HumpyThePenguin link
We have run into our first roadblock! yay!

From a comment from a1k0n about what one sign says "Sanbar first at ship repairs" we had to scrap our whole alphabet, for we found the sign that goes with it :/

So all we know now is how to spell "Sanbar" and a buncj of ideograms :/
Nov 01, 2003 HumpyThePenguin link
er, edit be broken, the ideograms we think we know what stand for are repair, here, come, first, ship, and one we think is either at or in

what we know can be found here: http://www.starfreeze.com/waylonics/known2.png
Nov 01, 2003 roguelazer link
It's not right. It turns "welcome" into gibberish.
Nov 01, 2003 StarFreeze link
A lot of info is being passed back on forth on what is ACTUALLY known...and so we are not certain on anything.

We have decided to take a break from it tonight after having a lot of fun trying to figure stuff out.
Nov 01, 2003 zamzx zik link
SWEET!
Nov 01, 2003 Suicidal Lemming link
Basically our solid proof involves a dev saying he is uncertain on the translation he said.

Summary: we have no proof.
Nov 01, 2003 ctishman link
Well, the "and" ideogram makes sense.
Nov 02, 2003 StarFreeze link
Well...we kind of figured out why we were having such a hard time decoding. It ain't english for the normal letter like symbols. The pictos were close thou. :)
Nov 02, 2003 roguelazer link
What language is it, pray tell.
Nov 02, 2003 a1k0n link
Waylonish. Duh.