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capri0mniIt's a page from an alien kids' "ABC" Book, and I thought it might make a fun puzzle:
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Yes, the word has a specific sound in my head, and there's a logic to the letters.
First, I came up with the name, and wrote out how it would look, in English.
Then, I broke the word down into sounds, and made a symbol for each, with rules, and here they are:
The alien language (conveniently) has all the same phonetic sounds as English, and like English it is scanned top to bottom, left to right.
The shape of each letter is based on how it felt, in my mouth, when I said it, including hardness or softness, abruptness, if it flowed, and amount of vibration (such as tongue on the roof of my mouth, teeth on lips, and so on).
Letters with a similar sound have a similar shape.
Vowels are enclosed shapes with open middles; unlike English however, "long" and "short" vowels are actually treated as different letters. Where we use the same letter in hop, hope, hoop and food, the aliens would use different letters.
Consonants are linear.
And finally, where we sometimes write a sound by mixing two consonants (such as nd or pr) the aliens give the most common blends their own letters.
So. Given all that, what do you think the word on the page sounds like?
Just curious to see how your brains interpret things differently than mine.
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Yes, the word has a specific sound in my head, and there's a logic to the letters.
First, I came up with the name, and wrote out how it would look, in English.
Then, I broke the word down into sounds, and made a symbol for each, with rules, and here they are:
The alien language (conveniently) has all the same phonetic sounds as English, and like English it is scanned top to bottom, left to right.
The shape of each letter is based on how it felt, in my mouth, when I said it, including hardness or softness, abruptness, if it flowed, and amount of vibration (such as tongue on the roof of my mouth, teeth on lips, and so on).
Letters with a similar sound have a similar shape.
Vowels are enclosed shapes with open middles; unlike English however, "long" and "short" vowels are actually treated as different letters. Where we use the same letter in hop, hope, hoop and food, the aliens would use different letters.
Consonants are linear.
And finally, where we sometimes write a sound by mixing two consonants (such as nd or pr) the aliens give the most common blends their own letters.
So. Given all that, what do you think the word on the page sounds like?
Just curious to see how your brains interpret things differently than mine.
