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I mean scripts like Shavian or Quikscript. Are these script useful to you in your day-to-day life? How are they better than the original scripts of your language?

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[–] Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Does one two one representations of the Latin alfabet count? In such case I'd mention a cipher used in Sweden called "brädgårdschiffer". Here is "hej på dig!" written using brädgårdschiffer with my very sloppy writing on my phone:

Hej på dig!

It's decrypted by matching up the shape and amount of dots with the letters in the key below. You look at the edges around the letters and the dots above that square.

key for brädgårdschiffer. This image is broken (:

I do however think that this chiffer probably exists outside of Sweden under some other name and other letters included (note that W and Q aren't included in the key. They aren't really used for in Swedish, apart from loans from other languages)

[–] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You were talking about this, right?

Key

note that W and Q aren’t included in the key

I suppose that V and K can be used as substitutes for loan-words?

[–] Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah, sure you can just substitute out the letters or write them out as is. And thanks for the image, i always get problems with images proxyed through ddg and then my instance

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