Puzzle

This piece of writing was sent in by a visitor to Omniglot. Can anybody identify the script and/or decipher it?

Mystery piece of writing

It looks a bit like cursive Hebrew to me.

Comments (8)

KellenJune 25th, 2010 at 2:35 pm

The burned edges look intentional. That plus the double strikes and irregularity of characters makes me think it’s a conlang or someone’s art project.

SiächJune 25th, 2010 at 5:24 pm

Looks like Elian Script.

Transcription:
youcanfind
twofivenin
eatesevent
hre ezerfo
urtogonow

Could be interpreted as:
“You can find two five nine ate(eight?) seven three zer[o] four to go now”

TJJune 25th, 2010 at 5:31 pm

I agree with Kellen.
doesn’t look like Hebrew to me. Could be however a cipher for some real lang or a con-script.

BenjamenoJune 25th, 2010 at 8:27 pm

No, I believe it could be the Elian script, or ‘conceptual calligraphy’- an invented alphabet ironically featured on Omniglot (http://www.omniglot.com/writing/elianscript.htm), which exaggerates the features of the Pigpen cipher to make them appear like unrelated symbols.

I don’t have time to decipher the message, however.

YenlitJune 25th, 2010 at 8:34 pm

I agree that it looks like some conlang folly and the charred edges do seem intentional.
Simon – I’m sure you are aware seeing as this is your website that you’ve added the comical ‘My hovercraft is full of eels’ Welsh translation (mae fy hofrenfad yn llawn llyswennod) to the “one language is never enough” legend at the top of this page minus its multilingual counterpart – is there any reason for this?

SimonJune 25th, 2010 at 9:17 pm

Yenlit – there’s no particular reason why I used the Welsh version of the hovercraft phrase in the header – I just wasn’t paying sufficient attention when I changed it.

TJJune 26th, 2010 at 12:12 am

Now that’s interesting…. I didn’t know much about this Elian script just now hmmm

DanielJune 29th, 2010 at 9:15 pm

I can only say it’s definitely not Hebrew. No Hebrew script looks like this.