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[TheBiggerFish]

Can we time travel normally?

[metamancer]

[FallacyofUrist]

so... anybody else have any idea how to read that stuff?
~~~
best case scenario: it's simply a letter-to-symbol cypher.
worst case scenario: metamancer invented a new language and that's what they represent.

[crazyabe]

so... anybody else have any idea how to read that stuff?
~~~
best case scenario: it's simply a letter-to-symbol cypher.
worst case scenario: metamancer invented a new language and that's what they represent.

Whelp, We know (us)Skyler & (Old?/Future?/Other?)Skyler Use English, So I'd Guess Most People in that universe use Whatever that Other Language is? I have no Clue how to read it but...

[Coolrune206]

Can't we just ask Berlie? Or whatever his name was?

[FallacyofUrist]

Can't we just ask Berlie?

+1 to asking Burlie how to read.

[metamancer]

Hey Berlie!


Hoo!


Can you teach me how to read those letters?


Oo oom joost trooyoong too roomoombr moosoolf


Boot oo coon oonloo roocool thoo voowools




Oo, oo, oo, oo, oond oo.

[Coolrune206]

Ah! That was dumb! How did we not see it before!

The translation is this!

Oo oo oo.

Oo oo oo.

Oo oo oo.

Oo oo oo.

Oo oo.

Oo oo oo oo.

I could only translate the first page, however. I'm not THAT good.

[birdy51]

I do not regret giving the crown to Berlie. Clearly this was the best decision.

#FeeltheBerlie

[Durithill]

All jests aside, if it is just a straight substitution cipher knowing which symbols are vowels makes things a ton easier. We would need a clearer look at the paper since the old view cuts off some of the text at the bottom, and a longer sample would be more helpful, but it should be easy enough to brute force.

[FallacyofUrist]

Examine the papers, then.

[deadringer]

Berlie, you forgot "and sometimes oo"

[deadringer]

We have one other sample from earlier:

It looks like it might be a cursive alphabet, like Arabic, where the letters can be connected or have different shapes in the middle/start/end of words.

[Durithill]

The dot seems to appear the most frequently, so if we're going with the substitution cipher idea that would likely be "e" based on the English letter frequencies. On the other hand, "+" appears rather infrequently, which would likely mean it's likely "u".

[crazyabe]

Whelp, the vowels in Metamancer's Language are...
"Dot" "Plus" "O thing" "Pair of Arrows" "Lots of Lines"

So we just have to Figure out which is (A) (E) (I) (O) and (U).