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| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6770 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes  Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 9 of 16 17 February 2010 at 5:33am | IP Logged |
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All the BC tribes normally use Roman orthography to my knowledge, the main exception being Carrier which
occasionally uses Carrier syllabics, which are based on the Cree and Ojibwe Syllabics that Inuit also uses. They do not resemble the writing above. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Blunderstein Triglot Pro Member Sweden schackhandeln.se Joined 5420 days ago 60 posts - 82 votes Speaks: Swedish*, EnglishC2, FrenchB2 Studies: German, Esperanto Personal Language Map | Message 10 of 16 17 February 2010 at 8:14am | IP Logged |
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It does have some similarities with the Cree writing system (http://www.omniglot.com/writing/cree.htm) but seems to be something else. Perhaps a system related to the Cree syllabary?
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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5558 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 11 of 16 17 February 2010 at 1:31pm | IP Logged |
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The thing that's really bugging me is that I'm pretty sure I've seen this writing or something very similar before, about 7-10 years ago, but I can't recall exactly where, so perhaps you're not the first person to share a copy of this mystery script on the Internet. Intriguing... Edited by Teango on 17 February 2010 at 1:36pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6770 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 12 of 16 17 February 2010 at 2:16pm | IP Logged |
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For a better answer, try posting it to the Wikipedia language reference desk.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Langua ge 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5558 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 13 of 16 17 February 2010 at 4:53pm | IP Logged |
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I used to know a bright and inquisitive gent in his 70s who never went to school or had any formal education, he was a family friend who passed away several years ago now. He had experienced a hard life on the whole, surviving a World War as a destitute orphan on the streets of London, and bringing up his family alone after the premature death of his wife.
Despite his difficult beginnings, he worked really hard and became an award winning professional photographer as well as a national ballroom dancing champion, to mention just a couple of his achievements. So imagine my surprise to discover that in all this time he never actually learned to read and write at all; he had learned pretty much everything hands-on or from radio, tv and talking to people. On one occasion I was permitted to see his darkroom and workplace, and remember seeing strange combinations of symbols on the cabinet doors and labelled boxes, as well as on folders, slide collections and random scraps of notepaper. They looked very similar to the mysterious script in your booklet, especially as they were also awkwardly angular yet regular, and sparsely scribbled down with diacritic-like markings. When I asked him about it, he explained how he had created a writing system over the years, a secret shorthand all of his own, partly based on spoken syllables, and partly based on symbolic representations of tools for photography, functions/procedures and categories. I thought this was quite amazing, and was oddly reminded of it when a friend of mine saw one of your pictures today and exclaimed "Stick men and maths!" Perhaps, if this isn't just a schoolboy's code or ruse, the same thing might be going on here too...? Edited by Teango on 17 February 2010 at 5:02pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Vinlander Groupie Canada Joined 5823 days ago 62 posts - 69 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 14 of 16 18 February 2010 at 2:07am | IP Logged |
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it looks like a derivative of ancient summarian but i could very eassily be wrong
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| canada38 Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5497 days ago 304 posts - 417 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Japanese | Message 15 of 16 24 February 2010 at 3:40am | IP Logged |
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It reminds me of Phoenician and Japanese (lol) but I know it certainly isn't either!
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| Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5424 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 16 of 16 24 February 2010 at 5:29am | IP Logged |
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OP, if you don;t mind me asking, what exactly is "Outdoor Education"?
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