{"id":60,"date":"2013-05-07T02:14:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T09:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/?p=60"},"modified":"2019-02-04T01:14:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T08:14:26","slug":"arcanums-sidhe-gaelic-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/2013\/05\/arcanums-sidhe-gaelic-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Arcanum&#8217;s Sidhe-Gaelic language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thrillbent.com\/comics\/arcanum\/\">Arcanum&#8217;s<\/a> a new webcomic (over at <a href=\"http:\/\/thrillbent.com\/\">Thrillbent<\/a>) written by John Rogers, of Leverage (from TV) and Blue Beetle (from comic books, and <a href=\"http:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/2008\/04\/scarab-speak\/\">previously touched on here<\/a>) fame. Arcanum&#8217;s sort of &#8220;24,&#8221; fighting the sinister and secret return of magic to the world. There&#8217;s &#8220;an alien language&#8221; called &#8220;Sidhe-Gaelic&#8221; therein, which is basically a dingbats font, which can be easily decoded, given enough text. Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/thrillbent.com\/comics\/arcanum\/arcanum-season-1-issue-6\/\">issue 6<\/a> offered enough text to decode, so I took a shot at it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/pronoiac.org\/images\/sidhe-gaelic.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\"><\/p>\n<p>What was encoded? Spoilers follow.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Issue 1, page or panel 21: &#8220;Kill them all!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>2.1 &#8211; &#8220;No mercy!&#8221; twice.<\/p>\n<p>2.7 &#8211; &#8220;By the goddess!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>2.9 &#8211; &#8220;Die Filth!&#8221; \/ &#8220;Nng fff!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>2.12 &#8211; &#8220;No!&#8221; \/ &#8220;Uuuggg&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>6.2 &#8211; &#8220;What&#8217;s this bullshit you&#8217;re flinging?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, isn&#8217;t that interesting?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll forgive your impudence, as my joy at hearing the old tongue softens my mood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Edit: 8.19 &#8211; &#8220;Honor?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for now. I haven&#8217;t seen what q, x, or z look like yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arcanum&#8217;s a new webcomic (over at Thrillbent) written by John Rogers, of Leverage (from TV) and Blue Beetle (from comic books, and previously touched on here) fame. Arcanum&#8217;s sort of &#8220;24,&#8221; fighting the sinister and secret return of magic to the world. There&#8217;s &#8220;an alien language&#8221; called &#8220;Sidhe-Gaelic&#8221; therein, which is basically a dingbats font, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,5],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arcanum","tag-fonts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}