And Now For Something Completely Different

[la_samtyr]

Because we all need a break from real life news and other things:



This is a joke sentence that was written in Gothic script. For solution, link and more details, look under the cut.

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To show that Gothic script could be fatiguing to read, medieval scribes invented this joke sentence:

mimi numinum niuium minimi munium nimium uini muniminum imminui uiui minimum uolunt

The snow gods’ smallest mimes do not wish in any way in their lives for the great duty of the defenses of wine to be diminished.

In Ancient Writing and Its Influence (1969), Berthold Louis Ullman and Julian Brown write, “When this is written in Gothic characters without dots for the i‘s and with v written as u, it makes a first-class riddle”:

mimi numinum script
July 5, 2016 | Language

Comments

[ysilme]

Darn, I didn't think of Latin and tried in vain to make sense out of it in German. ;o) I used to be able to read Gothic and similar scripts rather fluently, but I think I've lost the ability to some degree.

[samtyr.livejournal.com]

I didn't think to mention it wasn't written in German, sorry. But isn't it a cool idea for making an unsolvable code?

[ysilme]

It totally is! And it's my bad, I should have thought of other possible languages.;o)