Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 28 Feb-4 Mar 2011 (1871-1875)
Akima:
--- Quote from: tobiasgies on 01 Mar 2011, 14:42 ---Since someone else also - supposedly independently - came up with that translation, may I ask HOW you did it? A google search for dreamer's tongue didn't really yield any useful search results for me...
Having read The Code Book, one thing I can see now that you posted the plaintext is that the ciphertext just seems to be a simple letter substitution. Am I ignorant enough to not recognize some kind of Chinese letters? Do you happen to know the font Jeph uses? Or did you just use your Mad Cryptology Skillz to get the plaintext?
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I invented the term "Dreamer's Tongue", but I don't know enough about Cthulhu/Lovecraft to know if it is actually original. It is a simple letter substitution, and the first time Jeph used it, I and several others entertained ourselves with a little cryptanalysis. But Jeph later revealed in a post/tweet/something that the font he used was Miskatonic.
You are not ignorant; there are no such things as "Chinese letters". The tables used by bad tattoo artists etc. to offer some sort of one-to-one mapping of the Roman alphabet to Chinese characters are completely fraudulent. Naturally, "there's an app for that" too, from a company called Good Characters Inc. (the irony is so thick you could cut it with a knife).
Heliphyneau:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 28 Feb 2011, 16:35 ---Whi;le looking for someting else, I found this thread from a while back.
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Gah!
>_>
In my defense, I started that thread during the week of the WCDT of Doom -- I can't remember if it was before or after that thread was shut down, but there was a plethora of side-threads, many of which sought to explore the Fundamental Character of _______ (I even misspelled the word as "Fundemental" to point up the dementedness of what was going on at the time, but that was a bridge too far pun-wise. :oops: ) So basically, it's a silly thread. Not like this thread.
My breasts are not, to my knowledge, any form of soporific. If they were, I can only hope that I would use my powers for good . . .
Regarding today's strip, I guess Marigold prefers the potential horrors of what stains might be left on the couch by her roommate and his girlfriend to the potential horrors of what Hanners might do were she further disturbed from sleep. Poor Mari. Maybe she has Momo keeping watch in case the Old Ones to come.
Is it cold in here?:
Momo-tan is a high end model. I wonder if Sony has an app for that.
TheEvilDog:
Please, Sony have been trying to raise R'lyeh from the depths since 1946 so that they may commune with the great slumbering Cthulu and so they can worship the Great Old Ones.
Also, H.P. Lovecraft has been on their board of directors for years, as the head of their Undead Division.
Cthulhu fhtagn.
westrim:
--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 01 Mar 2011, 17:17 ---Please, Sony have been trying to raise R'lyeh from the depths since 1946 so that they may commune with the great slumbering Cthulu and so they can worship the Great Old Ones.
Also, H.P. Lovecraft has been on their board of directors for years, as the head of their Undead Division.
Cthulhu fhtagn.
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Plus, Godzilla is getting bored and needs something else to fight before he rises and smites Osaka. Again.
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