42 points | by nanna 5 days ago
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This reminds me that as a child I taught myself Tolkien's runes from The Hobbit, which is mostly another substitution of the modern English alphabet:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirth#Runes_from_The_Hobbit
I got to the point I could read and write without a reference. Not as fast as English but not slow either.
Many years later I found a notebook with many pages of things I'd written but had since lost the ability to read again.
An excellent excuse to pull out the 3-D printer.
Or just cut a piece of cardboard. That's what I did for my kid who loves secret codes and languages.
This reminds me that as a child I taught myself Tolkien's runes from The Hobbit, which is mostly another substitution of the modern English alphabet:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirth#Runes_from_The_Hobbit
I got to the point I could read and write without a reference. Not as fast as English but not slow either.
Many years later I found a notebook with many pages of things I'd written but had since lost the ability to read again.
An excellent excuse to pull out the 3-D printer.
Or just cut a piece of cardboard. That's what I did for my kid who loves secret codes and languages.