Runes
You don't know them?
I hope you trust someone to translate them for you. The rest of us
(survivors all) will carve a nice inscription on a stone when your ignorance
gets you killed. You won't be able to read it (since you'll be dead
as well as ignorant), but it'll be nice, trust us.... This is the
Elder-Futhark runic alphabet. (Elder 'cause it's old, futhark because
those are the first seven letters of the alphabet) These are the
runes we use to write things (grafitti, death threats, shopping lists).
Runes have mystic powers that are obscured by the mists of time and secrecy,
if you bother with that kind of stuff which most of us don't. Learn
them, use them.
Key Points:
Spelling
is fonetic when you use runes.
There
is no soft "c" in runic. Use an "s".
There
is no "q", "v", or "x" either. Make something up.
For
some reason you must never ever write pertangleheadedkindercon in runes.
If
you download the font file it will print a runic character upside down
to signify a capital letter. This
is both historically
inaccurate and really stupid.
Lesson
#1
Translate the following phrases into runic:
"Nice sheep, good sheep, steady now..."
"I never met a Roman I didn't want to ritually torture for days on end."
"Eat rattan fop-boy!"
Translate the following phrases into English:
Ogham
Ogham is another way to write things that most normal people can't read.
We don't use it much, but the damn Irish were always coming over to Wales,
spooking the sheep, eating our cattle, bleeding on our grass, and leaving
these stones with chicken scratchings all over the countryside. So
Welsh folks would have known something about ogham even if they didn't
care about it. Motivated to learn yet?
There are probably all sorts of intricate rules about using ogham.
I don't know, I don't care. Here's what we've got to work with.
Lesson #1
Translate the following phrases into ogham:
"D-oh!"
"We buried Niel here. He couldn't fight worth a damn and he owed
us all money."
"My kung-fu very huge."
Translate the following phrases into English:
