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Does anyone recognize this language?
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zhanglong
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04 May 2012 at 11:10pm | IP Logged

maydayayday wrote:

songlines wrote:

Taking a non-linguistic tack to your question:

Perhaps somewhat predictably, a Google search for "Brittany Black petite" yields, apart from a few E-bay listings,
quite a number of porn sites.

There must be a number of porn stars called Brittany. 8-)

Second only to Tiffany, one would assume.

But back to the matter at hand...it appears to be a nonsense font, similar to what an earlier poster suggested, as a Lorem deal. Clothing manufacturers are not know for being philologists; I've seen t-shirts in Asia that just have you scratching your head wondering "Do you KNOW what the message you're wearing means?"

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William Camden
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15 May 2012 at 8:41pm | IP Logged

It may just be nonsense. It doesn't look like any language I recognise, and especially in Asia, T-shirts will carry inscriptions in no known human language. In Japan, for example, where the Latin alphabet conveys sophistication, garbled Latin script with no discernable meaning is quite popular - because the meaning does not matter.

Having said that, I once bought a cheap T-shirt with writing in Devanagari. I didn't know what it meant. I walked into an Indian-owned shop in London and the owner told me it was a prayer in Sanskrit.
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eilis91
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15 May 2012 at 10:38pm | IP Logged

geoffw wrote:

Not that I agree, but I received a guess from a non-forum-member suggesting Old Irish, FWIW.

Having been subjected to Old Irish (Seanghaeilge) in the past, I can confirm that this is not old Irish.
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Josquin
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15 May 2012 at 11:04pm | IP Logged

William Camden wrote:

Having said that, I once bought a cheap T-shirt with writing in Devanagari. I didn't know what it meant. I walked into an Indian-owned shop in London and the owner told me it was a prayer in Sanskrit.

He might not have wanted to disappoint you. Probably, it was a cooking recipe... ;)

Edited by Josquin on 15 May 2012 at 11:26pm

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