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Wingdinglish

593 statements
114 feature instances
75 referencing feature instances

Wingdinglish	type	FeatureClass
Wingdinglish	label	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish	page	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish	comment	An "alien language" is represented as English with a weird font for the letters instead of the Latin alphabet. Many examples in comic books, some in video games, a few in sci-fi movies and TV (only when writing is seen on screen). Since this requires a visual (and lends itself particularly well to comic books), it can be considered a form of Painting the Medium. A specific subtrope of Fictionary and Cypher Language. Black Speech might be displayed as this. Here is a great site about this. Compare with Foreign-Looking Font. Contrast with Conlang.
Wingdinglish	fetched	2024-03-06T11:31:52Z
Wingdinglish	parsed	2024-03-06T11:31:52Z
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Wingdinglish	processingComment	Dropped link to BlindIdiotTranslation: Not an Item - FEATURE
Wingdinglish	processingComment	Dropped link to Coldplay: Not an Item - IGNORE
Wingdinglish	processingComment	Dropped link to CopyProtection: Not an Item - FEATURE
Wingdinglish	processingComment	Dropped link to EarthDrift: Not an Item - FEATURE
Wingdinglish	processingComment	Dropped link to InMyLanguageThatSoundsLike: Not an Item - FEATURE
Wingdinglish	processingComment	Dropped link to LaserGuidedAmnesia: Not an Item - FEATURE
Wingdinglish	processingComment	Dropped link to PardonMyKlingon: Not an Item - FEATURE
Wingdinglish	processingComment	Dropped link to RatchetAndClank: Not an Item - UNKNOWN
Wingdinglish	processingComment	Dropped link to SelfDestructMechanism: Not an Item - FEATURE
Wingdinglish	processingComment	Dropped link to SpeakingSimlish: Not an Item - FEATURE
Wingdinglish	processingComment	Dropped link to StarWars: Not an Item - CAT
Wingdinglish	processingComment	Dropped link to TitleConfusion: Not an Item - FEATURE
Wingdinglish	processingComment	Dropped link to TropeNamer: Not an Item - UNKNOWN
Wingdinglish	processingUnknown	TropeNamer
Wingdinglish	processingUnknown	RatchetAndClank
Wingdinglish	isPartOf	DBTropes
Wingdinglish / int_1331990c	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_1331990c	comment	The runes in Puella Magi Madoka Magica are a sub for German. In the Spin-Off Puella Magi Kazumi Magica a witch speaks them aloud.
Wingdinglish / int_1331990c	featureApplicability	1.0
Wingdinglish / int_1331990c	featureConfidence	1.0
Puella Magi Madoka Magica	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_1331990c
Wingdinglish / int_19111c21	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_19111c21	comment	In Master of Magic, the names and descriptions of still-not-researched spells in the spell book are in English but written in unreadable "magical runes" font.
Wingdinglish / int_19111c21	featureApplicability	1.0
Wingdinglish / int_19111c21	featureConfidence	1.0
Master of Magic (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_19111c21
Wingdinglish / int_1a4b3ea2	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_1a4b3ea2	comment	Digimon has Digicode, or Digimoji, a cypher of katakana and English used throughout the Digital World. It can be seen on signs, ruins, magic circles, evolution sequences, and even the Digimon themselves.
Wingdinglish / int_1a4b3ea2	featureApplicability	1.0
Wingdinglish / int_1a4b3ea2	featureConfidence	1.0
Digimon (Franchise)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_1a4b3ea2
Wingdinglish / int_1beda93b	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_1beda93b	comment	Alien Santa and his assimilated elves in Sluggy Freelance used a glyph language similar to Predator.
Wingdinglish / int_1beda93b	featureApplicability	1.0
Wingdinglish / int_1beda93b	featureConfidence	1.0
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_1beda93b
Wingdinglish / int_223c2a48	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_223c2a48	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild uses English as its basis like with Twilight Princess, which was integrated into Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as a Freeze-Frame Bonus: Those who have decrypted the Sheikah text in Breath of the Wild can use the same key in the Great Plateau Tower stage when glowing blue Sheikah text shows up to decode it as "SMASHBROS."
Wingdinglish / int_223c2a48	featureApplicability	1.0
Wingdinglish / int_223c2a48	featureConfidence	1.0
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_223c2a48
Wingdinglish / int_22d74b2e	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_22d74b2e	comment	While not examples of extraterrestrial alphabets, there are several Redwall books in which the heroes must decode some ancient writings that are the same as English, only the letters look just different enough to make them unrecognizable.
Wingdinglish / int_22d74b2e	featureApplicability	1.0
Wingdinglish / int_22d74b2e	featureConfidence	1.0
Redwall	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_22d74b2e
Wingdinglish / int_267cbfa	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_267cbfa	comment	Ancient or otherwise arcane text (particularly Draconic speech) in Dominic Deegan is rendered this way. Earlier, there's a strip of Luna and Dominic talking in mathematical symbols and formulas as they discuss mathematical theories and how they apply to magic.
Wingdinglish / int_267cbfa	featureApplicability	1.0
Wingdinglish / int_267cbfa	featureConfidence	1.0
Dominic Deegan (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_267cbfa
Wingdinglish / int_289484d9	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_289484d9	comment	Bloons Tower Defense: The Monklish is actually English written in some strange symbols that is used in many places in the game, as well as being used to tease many stuffs for upcoming updates.
Wingdinglish / int_289484d9	featureApplicability	1.0
Wingdinglish / int_289484d9	featureConfidence	1.0
Bloons Tower Defense (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_289484d9
Wingdinglish / int_29382995	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_29382995	comment	In Wandersong, the language of spirits and Overseers appears as a sequence of random, colourful symbols. After the bard learns the language, the speech bubbles include the symbols behind the English text, to indicate that it's still the spirit language that is being spoken.
Wingdinglish / int_29382995	featureApplicability	1.0
Wingdinglish / int_29382995	featureConfidence	1.0
Wandersong (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_29382995
Wingdinglish / int_2a04866b	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_2a04866b	comment	Old Ascalonian in Guild Wars and New Krytan in Guild Wars 2 are both examples of Wingdinglish, with different sets of glyphs.
Wingdinglish / int_2a04866b	featureApplicability	1.0
Wingdinglish / int_2a04866b	featureConfidence	1.0
Guild Wars (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_2a04866b
Wingdinglish / int_2baf4941	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_2baf4941	comment	For the first 27 issues of the 2005 run of the Blue Beetle, scarab-speak is represented this way. It's mostly decipherable once given the code, however a fair amount of artistic license is taken with the letters, especially earlier in the comic's run, and based on Jaime's side of the conversation the scarab is actually saying a lot more than what is written. Conversely, Tiny Titans uses a straight substitution cipher for Blue Beetle's scarab, with a key at the end for readers to interpret.
Wingdinglish / int_2baf4941	featureApplicability	1.0
Wingdinglish / int_2baf4941	featureConfidence	1.0
Blue Beetle (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_2baf4941
Wingdinglish / int_2e0dbc6d	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_2e0dbc6d	comment	Shima Shima Tora no Shimajirō uses the PlayStation symbols (circle, cross, triangle and square) as substitution for letters and glyphs in the anime where smaller prints are concerned. Larger prints seems to bounce between the Latin alphabet, hiragana or larger, colored versions of the symbols depending on the level of accuracy required.
Wingdinglish / int_2e0dbc6d	featureApplicability	1.0
Wingdinglish / int_2e0dbc6d	featureConfidence	1.0
Shima Shima Tora no Shimajirō	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_2e0dbc6d
Wingdinglish / int_2ef7cb74	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_2ef7cb74	comment	For alien letters, Lyrical Nanoha used English characters written forward then overlaid with the same English word written backwards and upside-down. Enough to look like an exotically unfamiliar font at a glance until you take a closer look.
Wingdinglish / int_2ef7cb74	featureApplicability	1.0
Wingdinglish / int_2ef7cb74	featureConfidence	1.0
Lyrical Nanoha (Franchise)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_2ef7cb74
Wingdinglish / int_2f3aa7ef	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_2f3aa7ef	comment	My Little Pony series as a whole tend to wobble between the English alphabet and Wingdinglish. Occasionally they'll have English words but at other times they'll have made up letters. Friendship is Magic goes with script that looks just enough like the Latin alphabet that it parses as letters, but no so much that it's legible.
Wingdinglish / int_2f3aa7ef	featureApplicability	1.0
Wingdinglish / int_2f3aa7ef	featureConfidence	1.0
My Little Pony (Franchise)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_2f3aa7ef
Wingdinglish / int_2fee008d	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_2fee008d	comment	The font in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann substitutes for the Latin alphabet.
Wingdinglish / int_2fee008d	featureApplicability	1.0
Wingdinglish / int_2fee008d	featureConfidence	1.0
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_2fee008d
Wingdinglish / int_30c1ffd0	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_30c1ffd0	comment	The Junimo scroll in Stardew Valley is written this way, requiring you to seek out the Wizard to translate, and some Junimo speech bubbles use the same script as you fulfill their requests.
Wingdinglish / int_30c1ffd0	featureApplicability	1.0
Wingdinglish / int_30c1ffd0	featureConfidence	1.0
Stardew Valley / Videogame	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_30c1ffd0
Wingdinglish / int_352a8f5a	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_352a8f5a	comment	clanBOB comic Grumble features this in all characters, sounds, sound effects, and titling. It's kinda the whole point.
Wingdinglish / int_352a8f5a	featureApplicability	1.0
Wingdinglish / int_352a8f5a	featureConfidence	1.0
clanBOB (Website)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_352a8f5a
Wingdinglish / int_3558eaa2	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_3558eaa2	comment	In an episode of Community Abed writes unrecognizable symbols in his notebook, but when Troy asks him what language it is he shrugs and says "Probably Arabic." (It's not.)
Wingdinglish / int_3558eaa2	featureApplicability	1.0
Wingdinglish / int_3558eaa2	featureConfidence	1.0
Community	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_3558eaa2
Wingdinglish / int_36df24f9	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_36df24f9	comment	Hyper Light Drifter: The blocky, rectilinear glyphs can be decoded into English. The single-word signs outside shops are easy. The extensive text that covers the hidden monoliths is difficult but, if deciphered, reveals an Apocalyptic Log.
Wingdinglish / int_36df24f9	featureApplicability	1.0
Wingdinglish / int_36df24f9	featureConfidence	1.0
Hyper Light Drifter (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_36df24f9
Wingdinglish / int_3c912cc2	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_3c912cc2	comment	Similarly, any time you enter a new location for the first time in Tales of Vesperia, the location name has a subtitle written in the game's written language under it. Said language is actually stylized English with the letters rotated 90 degrees.
Wingdinglish / int_3c912cc2	featureApplicability	1.0
Wingdinglish / int_3c912cc2	featureConfidence	1.0
Tales of Vesperia (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_3c912cc2
Wingdinglish / int_3cdcd366	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_3cdcd366	comment	Builder Machine Code in The Avengers (Jonathan Hickman). Particularly notable when Iron Man mistranslates Nightmask as Blackveil; it's an understandable translation mistake, but the diagram on his computer screen makes it look more like a mistake in transliteration, as though he was actually trying to work out what English letters the symbols were equivalent to rather than the meaning of completely alien words.
Wingdinglish / int_3cdcd366	featureApplicability	1.0
Wingdinglish / int_3cdcd366	featureConfidence	1.0
The Avengers (Jonathan Hickman) (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_3cdcd366
Wingdinglish / int_3efd7240	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_3efd7240	comment	The Krakoan language in X-Men (2019).
Wingdinglish / int_3efd7240	featureApplicability	1.0
Wingdinglish / int_3efd7240	featureConfidence	1.0
X-Men (2019) (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_3efd7240
Wingdinglish / int_4407fa9a	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_4407fa9a	comment	The glyph tablets in Golden Sun: Dark Dawn appear to use this for the language of the ancients, but once you have the Glyph Book they're automatically translated. One fan tried to make a usable font of it, but couldn't find a Q-equivalent glyph in the game.
Wingdinglish / int_4407fa9a	featureApplicability	1.0
Wingdinglish / int_4407fa9a	featureConfidence	1.0
Golden Sun: Dark Dawn (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_4407fa9a
Wingdinglish / int_468bebb0	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_468bebb0	comment	The ancient language known by Golems in the Discworld novels Going Postal and Making Money is Wingdinglish based on the "angelic alphabet" created by John Dee.
Wingdinglish / int_468bebb0	featureApplicability	1.0
Wingdinglish / int_468bebb0	featureConfidence	1.0
Discworld	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_468bebb0
Wingdinglish / int_4ce5263e	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_4ce5263e	comment	In XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the start of alien turns is signified by an alien script appearing at the bottom of the screen, with each letter then translated into English. Each "alien" character appears to match up with a single Latin letter. In XCOM2, the world has been taken over by the Aliens and all written text is written in the same alien script. With some concentration you can make out English translation of various advertisements and billboards.
Wingdinglish / int_4ce5263e	featureApplicability	1.0
Wingdinglish / int_4ce5263e	featureConfidence	1.0
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_4ce5263e
Wingdinglish / int_4d1ba412	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_4d1ba412	comment	In The Adventures of Dr. McNinja: Death Volley, the inscription on the plaque in front of the temple, translated from dwarf runes, reads: "This sphinx will shoot fucking laser eyes if you donat (sic) ..."
Wingdinglish / int_4d1ba412	featureApplicability	1.0
Wingdinglish / int_4d1ba412	featureConfidence	1.0
The Adventures of Dr. McNinja (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_4d1ba412
Wingdinglish / int_507dfb6a	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_507dfb6a	comment	The Mr. Saturns in EarthBound (1994) use this, along with several verbal tics. It should be noted that in this instance the typeface is recognizable as the Latin alphabet, and can be read, if slowly.
Wingdinglish / int_507dfb6a	featureApplicability	1.0
Wingdinglish / int_507dfb6a	featureConfidence	1.0
EarthBound (1994) (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_507dfb6a
Wingdinglish / int_50bcf7a6	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_50bcf7a6	comment	The Homestuck Fanfic A Complete Waste of Time has, in addition to Alternian Daedric, the Ithican script, which is very flowy and calligraphic. cT initially sets the entire Act 5 recap in it, before realizing the readers wanted a legible version.
Wingdinglish / int_50bcf7a6	featureApplicability	1.0
Wingdinglish / int_50bcf7a6	featureConfidence	1.0
Homestuck (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_50bcf7a6
Wingdinglish / int_525c9c7a	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_525c9c7a	comment	Averted: James Gurney's Dinotopia picture books has a Cypher Language, not Wingdinglish, despite modern English being only several centuries old compared to the dino civilization of millions of years. Acceptable Break from Reality considering it was designed for children and their parents. However, the Chandaran Transitional Alphabet is like this, English made to match Footprint letters.
Wingdinglish / int_525c9c7a	featureApplicability	-1.0
Wingdinglish / int_525c9c7a	featureConfidence	1.0
Dinotopia	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_525c9c7a
Wingdinglish / int_537fae8b	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_537fae8b	comment	In Street Fighter X Tekken, Ogre's win-quotes are written this way to represent his alien language; which is slightly odd, since the same language is subtitled in English (or whatever the player's chosen language is) during certain cutscenes.
Wingdinglish / int_537fae8b	featureApplicability	1.0
Wingdinglish / int_537fae8b	featureConfidence	1.0
Street Fighter X Tekken (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_537fae8b
Wingdinglish / int_5524b5fd	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_5524b5fd	comment	Alpabe runes in Unicorn Jelly partially follow this trope, since they include a mixture of Latin, Greek and Hebrew characters (and possibly some other real-world alphabets).
Wingdinglish / int_5524b5fd	featureApplicability	1.0
Wingdinglish / int_5524b5fd	featureConfidence	1.0
Unicorn Jelly (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_5524b5fd
Wingdinglish / int_5755b96a	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick has Instant Runes in this strip The runes in the first panel reveal a secret message. The message? Bet you thought you had found a secret message in this didn't you?
Wingdinglish / int_5755b96a	featureApplicability	1.0
Wingdinglish / int_5755b96a	featureConfidence	1.0
The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_5755b96a
Wingdinglish / int_5afbc0cb	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_5afbc0cb	comment	Undertale has some Dummied Out text written entirely in actual Wingdings, such as Entry 17, the one entry missing from the True Lab. These can be attributed to W. D. Gaster, who is possibly alluded to in the game itself by an NPC who says to "beware the man who speaks in hands", and by a blueprint in Sans's workshop that's written in "strange symbols", suggesting that the character speaks/writes in Wingdings.
Wingdinglish / int_5afbc0cb	featureApplicability	1.0
Wingdinglish / int_5afbc0cb	featureConfidence	1.0
Undertale (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_5afbc0cb
Wingdinglish / int_5f89c8b8	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_5f89c8b8	comment	In PS238, alien tongues are represented in strange font, one font per alien language, but are readable English when deciphered. Prospero's walls of text in his introductory chapter starts off with "If you can read this" and goes on with Monty Python quotes, a recipe, etc, to avoid heavy spoilers, but in the rest of the series, his utterings are often hilarious.
Wingdinglish / int_5f89c8b8	featureApplicability	1.0
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PS238 (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_5f89c8b8
Wingdinglish / int_604f8988	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_604f8988	comment	The same thing happens in Bar'd, but this time Vas is merely filtering his speech to sound more animal-friendly.
Wingdinglish / int_604f8988	featureApplicability	1.0
Wingdinglish / int_604f8988	featureConfidence	1.0
Bar'd (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_604f8988
Wingdinglish / int_6392a219	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_6392a219	comment	In The Mansion of E, the pidgin language used between Ichyoids and English-equivalent speakers is depicted in this manner.
Wingdinglish / int_6392a219	featureApplicability	1.0
Wingdinglish / int_6392a219	featureConfidence	1.0
The Mansion of E (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_6392a219
Wingdinglish / int_643cd5f7	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_643cd5f7	comment	In Cube Zero, the Cube computer systems and written orders (and Title Sequence) use both the latin alphabet and a strange alien one to display English. The characters can read both just fine, but we're given no explanation as to why this is so like a lot of other things in the series
Wingdinglish / int_643cd5f7	featureApplicability	1.0
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Cube Zero	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_643cd5f7
Wingdinglish / int_6bc0f10a	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_6bc0f10a	comment	The written Vogon language in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) was a real shorthand script, it looks alien while referencing the bureaucratic nature of the Vogons: a typographical Bilingual Bonus for the clerically-minded. Given the nature of Vogons, writing things quickly seems out of character for them; as a result, expanded material states that Vogon numbers would be written in unary (so that, for example, one thousand is one thousand tally marks).
Wingdinglish / int_6bc0f10a	featureApplicability	1.0
Wingdinglish / int_6bc0f10a	featureConfidence	1.0
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_6bc0f10a
Wingdinglish / int_6caab892	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_6caab892	comment	A few games, such as Sonic Riders, depict nondescript text alongside English text.
Wingdinglish / int_6caab892	featureApplicability	1.0
Wingdinglish / int_6caab892	featureConfidence	1.0
Sonic Riders (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_6caab892
Wingdinglish / int_6d8311c4	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_6d8311c4	comment	The text in the Unown Ruins in PokÃ©mon Gold and Silver falls under this. Technically, the Unown are just stylized versions of the English alphabet and some punctuation, but some of the Unown don't look particularly similar to the letters they represent. Interestingly, this would make the words in the Unown PokÃ©dex Gratuitous English in the original Japanese.
Wingdinglish / int_6d8311c4	featureApplicability	1.0
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PokÃ©mon Gold and Silver (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_6d8311c4
Wingdinglish / int_6f1dfbf0	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_6f1dfbf0	comment	In Myth Alliances, a native of the computer-obsessed dimension of Kobol greets some visitors by saying a smilie-symbol.
Wingdinglish / int_6f1dfbf0	featureApplicability	1.0
Wingdinglish / int_6f1dfbf0	featureConfidence	1.0
Myth Adventures	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_6f1dfbf0
Wingdinglish / int_6f76d71a	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_6f76d71a	comment	The Sims: Simlish from The Sims has a substitution cipher, too. It resembles Greek, and also uses astrological symbols and such. Enterprising modders have created a TrueType font for it. In The Sims 2, TV programs and commercials clearly use the Wingdings font. This is also noticeable in The Sims 4. Having a minor play Keyboard Commander is a great way to reveal part of the cypher used by the game, since the game will show the item and require the sim to type in the corresponding word. And you know something is fishy when cat and car also has three letters in written Simlish, just like they do in English, and the letters are also consistent. However, the Simlish in Sims 3 and later is different from that in previous titles: with more obscure symbols and more use of circles that make it look closer to Korean than Greek.
Wingdinglish / int_6f76d71a	featureApplicability	1.0
Wingdinglish / int_6f76d71a	featureConfidence	1.0
The Sims (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_6f76d71a
Wingdinglish / int_70814599	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_70814599	comment	The Ancient language in Stargate SG-1 is faux-Latin with different characters instead of the Latin alphabet.
Wingdinglish / int_70814599	featureApplicability	1.0
Wingdinglish / int_70814599	featureConfidence	1.0
Stargate SG-1	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_70814599
Wingdinglish / int_73549409	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_73549409	comment	Used in the world of Storm Hawks. Sometimes, if you look closely and you know what it's supposed to say, you can make the connections between the symbols and the Latin letters they represent.
Wingdinglish / int_73549409	featureApplicability	1.0
Wingdinglish / int_73549409	featureConfidence	1.0
Storm Hawks	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_73549409
Wingdinglish / int_799145cf	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_799145cf	comment	Sorcerous incantations in Keychain of Creation consist of the spell's name (in English) written in Old Realm script.
Wingdinglish / int_799145cf	featureApplicability	1.0
Wingdinglish / int_799145cf	featureConfidence	1.0
Keychain of Creation (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_799145cf
Wingdinglish / int_79bf0b84	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_79bf0b84	comment	Angelic language from Slightly Damned. Averted when two (or more) angels are speaking to each other, in which case the font simply changes from black to blue. Played straight when they speak to a non-angelic character or themselves, and 9 times out of 10, whatever they say in those scenarios ISN'T nice at all. Demons are also capable of speaking angelic, and the ones that do are especially dangerous.
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Wingdinglish / int_7f640c58	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_7f640c58	comment	In The Sims 2, TV programs and commercials clearly use the Wingdings font.
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Wingdinglish / int_7f640c5a	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_7f640c5a	comment	This is also noticeable in The Sims 4. Having a minor play Keyboard Commander is a great way to reveal part of the cypher used by the game, since the game will show the item and require the sim to type in the corresponding word. And you know something is fishy when cat and car also has three letters in written Simlish, just like they do in English, and the letters are also consistent. However, the Simlish in Sims 3 and later is different from that in previous titles: with more obscure symbols and more use of circles that make it look closer to Korean than Greek.
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The Sims 4 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_7f640c5a
Wingdinglish / int_7fc78282	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_7fc78282	comment	Somewhat subverted in The Lord of the Rings, it contains several inscriptions (most notably the title page and the writing on Balin's tomb) that, when deciphered, turns out to be phonetically written English. This is in fact part of the book's Translation Convention - Tolkien pretends that the whole book is really translated from an original Westron manuscript by himself, and includes the inscriptions. The Cirth at the top of the title page reads "The Lord of the Rings, translated from the red book" while the Tengwar at the bottom continues, "of Westmarch by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. Herein is set forth the history of the War of the Ring and the return of the King as seen by the Hobbits." The map in The Hobbit also has an English text, but that uses real Anglo-Saxon runes, not Cirth. On the other hand, some fans play this trope depressingly straight. Since Tengwar doesn't even have a one-to-one match with the Latin alphabet even in the orthographic mode for English (let alone for other modes in other languages), in most Tengwar fonts, the key you press doesn't correspond to the sound of the Tengwar character. So if you just download an "Elvish font" and type away, be assured all you'll get is gibberish.
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Wingdinglish / int_8480d938	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_8480d938	comment	The Prometheus and Bob alien subtitles, which look like Crop Circles.
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KaBlam!	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_8480d938
Wingdinglish / int_86d8deea	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_86d8deea	comment	Rescue on Fractalus!: The low resolution makes it not immediately obvious, but the Jaggi lettering is English turned sideways.
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Wingdinglish / int_86d8deea	featureConfidence	1.0
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Wingdinglish / int_8a339030	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_8a339030	comment	Indiana Jones and The Temple of the Forbidden Eye has a supposedly "ancient" language written throughout the queue. It's a simple substitution alphabet. Originally, decoder cards were given out by cast members to help guests fight boredom in what was potentially a 5 hour wait. In fact, careful examination of the glyphs reveals that the individual characters are just the letters of the English alphabet, highly stylized. With a little practice, you can read them without decoding.
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Wingdinglish / int_8c87469c	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_8c87469c	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword uses one too, but the text isn't actually translated. It turns out everything with the ancient text just has the cipher in alphabetical order, though it's either incomplete or reuses symbols for multiple letters. Either way, it's unreadable.
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Wingdinglish / int_8d318bad	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_8d318bad	comment	In Super Mario RPG, Geno, an inanimate doll, is taken over by a star spirit who wants Mario's help to recover the lost pieces of Star Road. He introduces himself as "â™¥â™ª!?"note The Japanese version uses a different string of unique characters, but realizes it's hard for mortals to pronounce, and so asks to be called "Geno" after the doll.
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Super Mario RPG (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_8d318bad
Wingdinglish / int_8e1c8c93	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_8e1c8c93	comment	Powerwash Simulator: The final location contains murals with text written in a foreign-looking script which can be transliterated to English. Decoding them reveals that their makers, the people of the ancient Pacifist civilization, were foretold of your career by time-traveling scientists. To fulfill the prophecy, they turned their palace into an offshore platform housing a volcano-quelling beam for use in the world's time of need. This proves handy as the volcano in question is on the verge of erupting by the time you arrive at the palace to clean it.
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PowerWash Simulator (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_8e1c8c93
Wingdinglish / int_91e45f5	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_91e45f5	comment	Characters who speak "Borginian" in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney do so by using a wingdings font. Or at least a font that looks like a lot of symbols put together.
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Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (Visual Novel)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_91e45f5
Wingdinglish / int_927f559c	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_927f559c	comment	In Roommates English written in runes represents the language of the magical beings. Der ErlkÃ¶nig speaks this way mostly but his son can use it too (but mostly just swears in it). Odin also used the same alphabet but spoke in German.
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Roommates (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_927f559c
Wingdinglish / int_92a4055b	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_92a4055b	comment	Aquaria does this; clues are given on the opening screen, where the 'runic' alphabet is slowly replaced by the Latin one. Players who didn't want to translate the script could overwrite the graphics file for the runic text with the Latin variant, at the expense of immersion.
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Aquaria (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_92a4055b
Wingdinglish / int_93a15df3	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_93a15df3	comment	Them's Fightin' Herds: In story mode, both Paprika and the Winter Sprite race as a whole can't really be understood by the other characters. The dialogue for the Sprites are rune-like symbols while Paprika "speaks" with her own version of Wingdings.
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Wingdinglish / int_980c3316	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_980c3316	comment	Mr Mind's Venusian in Power Of Shazam! has since been used by other aliens, where it often turns out to be gibberish or actually say "Alien Speech".
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Shazam! (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_980c3316
Wingdinglish / int_99c746c0	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_99c746c0	comment	In Spiritfarer, signs are written in glyphs composed of dots and strokes for ease of localization, which are stand-ins for the Latin alphabet.
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Spiritfarer (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_99c746c0
Wingdinglish / int_9d34190a	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_9d34190a	comment	The Daedric script from The Elder Scrolls games. If you read it carefully, the words even look quite like English words.
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The Elder Scrolls (Franchise)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_9d34190a
Wingdinglish / int_9df32140	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_9df32140	comment	Pikmin 3: The Koppaites have their own language with text that shows up on various interfaces. The developers included the cipher in the game's data, allowing for a full translation. While a lot of the text is descriptors, there are some pieces that are developers' comments and a few that make no sense.
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Pikmin 3 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_9df32140
Wingdinglish / int_9ef055f4	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_9ef055f4	comment	Ratchet & Clank has this in the form of the Lombax language.
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Ratchet & Clank (Franchise)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_9ef055f4
Wingdinglish / int_9f89a5f0	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon: The text in the Unown Ruins in PokÃ©mon Gold and Silver falls under this. Technically, the Unown are just stylized versions of the English alphabet and some punctuation, but some of the Unown don't look particularly similar to the letters they represent. Interestingly, this would make the words in the Unown PokÃ©dex Gratuitous English in the original Japanese. PokÃ©mon Ruby and Sapphire used braille for this (the player's guide had the translations in it). The only place it was used was in a puzzle to unlock some of the legendary PokÃ©mon. FireRed and LeafGreen also used some braille during the Sevii Islands quest. It was assumed the alphabet used in the series was kanji, but games like Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire clearly show they use a fictionalized language much like the anime. It's possible the characters are bilingual since some Japanese and English lettering (like Team Rocket's hat and scrolls) still exist.
Wingdinglish / int_9f89a5f0	featureApplicability	1.0
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Wingdinglish / int_a03824e8	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_a03824e8	comment	Three from The DCU: Interlac, Kryptonese, and Venusian. Bonus points: since Kryptonese alphabet has been introduced, readers quickly noticed that Superman's S-shield is really a stylized version of the Kryptonese cipher for the letter S, blending traits from both alphabets (the Kryptonese cipher has an 8-like shape inscribed to the shield, like the familiar S). Mr Mind's Venusian in Power Of Shazam! has since been used by other aliens, where it often turns out to be gibberish or actually say "Alien Speech".
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The DCU (Franchise)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_a03824e8
Wingdinglish / int_a183d57f	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama had two alien alphabets: One was one-for-one to English, and one was more complex. The second was devised when the first one became "too easy".
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Futurama	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_a183d57f
Wingdinglish / int_a2add1d2	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_a2add1d2	comment	Splatoon and its sequels have multiple different fonts for its Conlang, one of which has been completely decoded, revealing that the shirt Jelfonzo wears on Tuesdays reads FUCK YOU. Yes, really.
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Splatoon (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_a2add1d2
Wingdinglish / int_a2dee471	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_a2dee471	comment	Hylian in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker was a cipher for hiragana, while The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time used one for katakana. By The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, it was merely stylized Latin letters in English (though the mirroring used undermined this). The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword uses one too, but the text isn't actually translated. It turns out everything with the ancient text just has the cipher in alphabetical order, though it's either incomplete or reuses symbols for multiple letters. Either way, it's unreadable. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild uses English as its basis like with Twilight Princess, which was integrated into Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as a Freeze-Frame Bonus: Those who have decrypted the Sheikah text in Breath of the Wild can use the same key in the Great Plateau Tower stage when glowing blue Sheikah text shows up to decode it as "SMASHBROS."
Wingdinglish / int_a2dee471	featureApplicability	1.0
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Wingdinglish / int_a4513ea8	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_a4513ea8	comment	Fez: The ancient writing can be deciphered. There are six shapes rotated four ways for a total of 24 glyphs, so it does not perfectly map to the English alphabet: "Q" and "V" are combined with "K" and "U" respectively.
Wingdinglish / int_a4513ea8	featureApplicability	1.0
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Fez (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_a4513ea8
Wingdinglish / int_a7a0b48b	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_a7a0b48b	comment	NieR: Automata uses the 16th century occult Celestial/Angelic Alphabet to disguise the names of bosses when they are first encountered, as well as in Runic Magic attack visuals in the Final Fantasy XIV crossover raid.
Wingdinglish / int_a7a0b48b	featureApplicability	1.0
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NieR: Automata / Videogame	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_a7a0b48b
Wingdinglish / int_a825da3e	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_a825da3e	comment	Phyrexian, one of Magic: The Gathering 's few conlangs, is an actually fully constructed language (albeit whose specifics are unreleased to the public). Despite this, some of the known samples are basically just English run through its bizarre script.
Wingdinglish / int_a825da3e	featureApplicability	1.0
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Magic: The Gathering (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_a825da3e
Wingdinglish / int_ab918883	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_ab918883	comment	Hack 'N' Slash: The magic hat, among other parts of the game, uses an unreadable font. It later turns out that the font was just misconfigured and the player can fix the error.
Wingdinglish / int_ab918883	featureApplicability	1.0
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Hack 'N' Slash (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_ab918883
Wingdinglish / int_b29501d0	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_b29501d0	comment	There was some kind of demonic ritual/summoning with this in And Shine Heaven Now. It transliterated to something like, "If you can read this you're a nerd."
Wingdinglish / int_b29501d0	featureApplicability	1.0
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Wingdinglish / int_b3e81703	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_b3e81703	comment	The language of magic in Arthur, King of Time and Space is English written in Greek script. Translating the incantations reveals them to be appropriate lines from 20th century sources. The same thing happens in Bar'd, but this time Vas is merely filtering his speech to sound more animal-friendly.
Wingdinglish / int_b3e81703	featureApplicability	1.0
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Wingdinglish / int_b4967d43	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_b4967d43	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog: A few games, such as Sonic Riders, depict nondescript text alongside English text. To go with the Earth Drift, Sonic Forces introduces a blocky, shape-based alphabet seen in the background of the stages.
Wingdinglish / int_b4967d43	featureApplicability	1.0
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Sonic the Hedgehog (Franchise)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_b4967d43
Wingdinglish / int_bb444181	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_bb444181	comment	The Racconan script from Tales of the Questor
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Tales of the Questor (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_bb444181
Wingdinglish / int_c19c6efa	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_c19c6efa	comment	Also used in Minecraft for the enchanting table text, but it translates into a series of random words with no meaning.
Wingdinglish / int_c19c6efa	featureApplicability	1.0
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Minecraft (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_c19c6efa
Wingdinglish / int_c2463c55	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_c2463c55	comment	Final Fantasy X uses an extremely stylized script in some places, such as the screen when choosing a destination for the Fahrenheit.
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Final Fantasy X (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_c2463c55
Wingdinglish / int_c2bfec7c	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_c2bfec7c	comment	In Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom, most of the written scripts in the game is made out of characters that is otherwise incomprehensible to the player. Roland has no problem understanding it though, probably part and parcel of the spell Doloran used to bring Roland to his world.
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Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_c2bfec7c
Wingdinglish / int_c4282b71	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_c4282b71	comment	Friendship is Magic goes with script that looks just enough like the Latin alphabet that it parses as letters, but no so much that it's legible.
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_c4282b71
Wingdinglish / int_c43df4d8	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_c43df4d8	comment	"The Impossible Planet" in Doctor Who. Also, Old High Gallifreyan in "The Deadly Assassin" and "The Five Doctors," and what can only be described as "Dalekese" on a display in "Remembrance of the Daleks." In the new series, the various panels on Gallifreyan consoles (such as on the TARDIS) display circles with smaller circles and lines in them. They look like generic graphics, but are actually meant to be Gallifreyan text.
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Doctor Who	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_c43df4d8
Wingdinglish / int_c488a57d	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_c488a57d	comment	In Chicory: A Colorful Tale, the insects speak in "bug language", which is rendered in scribbles. Prunus can translate them for Pizza.
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Chicory: A Colorful Tale (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_c488a57d
Wingdinglish / int_cae652c	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_cae652c	comment	Hunter Ã— Hunter's written "language" is just a substitution cipher for Japanese kana. What's interesting is that the "a" sounds are all replaced with English letters rotated some degrees. note The character for "a" is an upside down A, the character for "ka" is a sideways K, the character for "na" is a sideways N, etc.
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Hunter Ã— Hunter (Manga)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_cae652c
Wingdinglish / int_cd1550c5	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_cd1550c5	comment	Not a language as such, but in one of the The Dark Tower books Stephen King presents a Line of Eld symbol (think, "descendant of King Arthur" for a rough equivalent). It's the copyright symbol set in Windings.
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The Dark Tower (Franchise)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_cd1550c5
Wingdinglish / int_ce50887e	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_ce50887e	comment	In Dragon Ball, the language spoken by Piccolo and Kami at the Budokai, later revealed in Z to be Namekian, was presented this way. Luckily, the word balloons also included a translation for us Earthlings.
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Dragon Ball (Manga)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_ce50887e
Wingdinglish / int_ce8ae236	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_ce8ae236	comment	In Unleash the Light, George speaks in an unintelligible language that's represented by pictograms, but Steven and the Gems still understand him.
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Unleash the Light (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_ce8ae236
Wingdinglish / int_cfbcd69f	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_cfbcd69f	comment	In Leaving the Cradle, when shown from the human point of view, the aliens are speaking in... something.
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Leaving the Cradle (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_cfbcd69f
Wingdinglish / int_d5ddd6c1	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	PokÃ©mon: The Series eventually started using its own symbol-cipher of English for written text (rather than just using Japanese writing as had been done earlier) in order to make localization easier. There are several different variations used throughout the anime.
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PokÃ©mon: The Series	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_d5ddd6c1
Wingdinglish / int_d5e9a8ed	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_d5e9a8ed	comment	The aliens in The Ultimates spoke English set in a Japanese (katakana) font.
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The Ultimates (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_d5e9a8ed
Wingdinglish / int_d5e9cf36	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_d5e9cf36	comment	In XCOM2, the world has been taken over by the Aliens and all written text is written in the same alien script. With some concentration you can make out English translation of various advertisements and billboards.
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XCOM 2 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_d5e9cf36
Wingdinglish / int_d66ef045	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_d66ef045	comment	The Disney film Atlantis: The Lost Empire introduces us to the protagonist by showing him giving a presentation demonstrating that expeditions to find the book that says where Atlantis is failed because the only piece of evidence was mistranslated, and corrects the substitution cypher from "Coast of Ireland" to "Coast of Iceland." It's not as contrived as it sounds, since the corresponding Norse words really are one similar-looking rune apart: Ã�sland and Ã�rland.
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Wingdinglish / int_dbbabee0	comment	Ratchet & Clank (2010) has this occasionally such as on the Vartax detention facility.
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Wingdinglish / int_de69142d	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_de69142d	comment	Lum's mother didn't speak Japanese. Her alien language was represented by Mahjong tiles.
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Wingdinglish / int_df409e97	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_df409e97	comment	Mysteria Friends uses partially-mirror-imaged capital Roman letters to produce a foreign-looking font by which its in-universe text, in English, is printed.
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Wingdinglish / int_e0852c7f	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_e0852c7f	comment	Dune (2021): All of the in-universe text that we see is written in an invented alphabet. DVD Bonus Content shows it to be a 1:1 match with the Latin alphabet.
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Wingdinglish / int_e1386cee	comment	In Parallax, the raiment's initialization messages are spoken in wingdingâ€‘Swedish looking like mathematical symbols.
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Wingdinglish / int_e15a3879	comment	The Shroob aliens in Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time use a set of strange, unique glyphs. From the few lines of their language that are given translations near the end of the game, it's possible to puzzle out a couple of words that consistently appear in their "dialogue" (mainly "DESTROY").
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Wingdinglish / int_e48493b3	comment	Ultima had a bunch of such scripts; even That Other Wiki has an article on them.
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Wingdinglish / int_e5feb1e	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_e5feb1e	comment	Ace Attorney: Characters who speak "Borginian" in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney do so by using a wingdings font. Or at least a font that looks like a lot of symbols put together. Pirated copies of Gyakuten Kenji 2 replace all of the text in the game with this font.
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Wingdinglish / int_e6c59cd1	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_e6c59cd1	comment	In Quake IV, the Strogg control panels are marked with odd looking letters that later on in the game (after the player character receives a neurocyte during his Stroggification) look like normal English alphabet (with the exception of the letter E, which, like in Quake II, is horizontally inverted).
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Wingdinglish / int_e8d13e52	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_e8d13e52	comment	Urusei Yatsura: Lum's mother didn't speak Japanese. Her alien language was represented by Mahjong tiles. In another story, Lum got hit on the head and suffered Laser-Guided Amnesia that wiped out only her ability to speak Japanese. Her native tongue was represented by wingdings.
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Wingdinglish / int_eb5d7301	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_eb5d7301	comment	Amphibia uses one of these for its "ancient" or "native" writings. It is a straight one-to-one substitution for English, and, tellingly, leaves punctuation and numerals unchanged. This is strangely justified, as the amphibians speak English anyway. Also, it's intended to be solvable by children. In the series finale, a partially solved translation chart is revealed (made by Sprig in-universe). It doesn't have the X or Z letters in it, because presumably he didn't find them (though the X did show up at one point in the show).
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Wingdinglish / int_eb6802b4	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_eb6802b4	comment	Final Fantasy XIII and its sequels have two different Wingdinglish scripts to represent different languages. The keys to the cyphers are given in the strategy guides.
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Wingdinglish / int_f0688fff	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_f0688fff	comment	It was assumed the alphabet used in the series was kanji, but games like Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire clearly show they use a fictionalized language much like the anime. It's possible the characters are bilingual since some Japanese and English lettering (like Team Rocket's hat and scrolls) still exist.
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PokÃ©mon Ruby and Sapphire (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_f0688fff
Wingdinglish / int_f10619d8	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_f10619d8	comment	In Tales of the Abyss, signs on shops and inns, as well as a subtitle under the name of any new area you enter, are written in a weird script with curly foreign letters. Said script can actually be downloaded as a typeface. Similarly, any time you enter a new location for the first time in Tales of Vesperia, the location name has a subtitle written in the game's written language under it. Said language is actually stylized English with the letters rotated 90 degrees.
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Wingdinglish / int_f3ef0f86	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_f3ef0f86	comment	Gnommish that appears on the covers and the bottoms of pages of the Artemis Fowl books is Wingdings English though it was extremely hard for Artemis to translate in universe. Also, Centaurean.
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Wingdinglish / int_f3f99ac5	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_f3f99ac5	comment	Bubble Bobble had this in the secret rooms. The NES version of Bubble Bobble Part 2 had the word "Bonus" in this font in its Bonus Stages.
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Wingdinglish / int_f74b5f80	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_f74b5f80	comment	Played for laughs in an episode of Babylon 5. A part of a court case is shown where a human is suing an alien because the alien's ancestor abducted his ancestor. The judge asks the defendant how he pleads. The alien responds by holding up a card with a symbol that does not exist in any human language. The judge curses his luck, and requests an interpreter.
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Wingdinglish / int_f7c70e0c	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_f7c70e0c	comment	Super Mario: In Super Mario RPG, Geno, an inanimate doll, is taken over by a star spirit who wants Mario's help to recover the lost pieces of Star Road. He introduces himself as "â™¥â™ª!?"note The Japanese version uses a different string of unique characters, but realizes it's hard for mortals to pronounce, and so asks to be called "Geno" after the doll. The Shroob aliens in Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time use a set of strange, unique glyphs. From the few lines of their language that are given translations near the end of the game, it's possible to puzzle out a couple of words that consistently appear in their "dialogue" (mainly "DESTROY").
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Wingdinglish / int_f9b9dfe4	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_f9b9dfe4	comment	Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn has an "ancient script" represented by a flowing font with unrecognizable letters. It can be translated though, and the primary speakers of it (Leanne and Volug) actually say quite a few amusing things, mostly about the language barrier, when translated.
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Wingdinglish / int_fb9c177d	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_fb9c177d	comment	Transformers gives us Cybertronix. This was used to insert Easter Eggs or crude jokes; one sentence in Beast Machines said, "If you can read this, seek help." Beast Wars would at times even flash obscenities on screen. There are even more fonts now - Autobot text and Decepticon graffiti. There is also Maximal and Predacon true-type fonts. And Aligned Continuity Cybertronian.
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Wingdinglish / int_fd0b756	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_fd0b756	comment	The map in The Hobbit also has an English text, but that uses real Anglo-Saxon runes, not Cirth.
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Wingdinglish / int_fdbace96	type	Wingdinglish
Wingdinglish / int_fdbace96	comment	There are lots of encoded messages in Gravity Falls, and while most are basic cryptograms, there are ones in an alien language. The Mystery of Gravity Falls fan site has a key to aid in the decoding process.
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Gravity Falls	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_fdbace96

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Royal Space Force: The Wings of HonnÃªamise / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
Shima Shima Tora no Shimajirō / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
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The Autumnlands: Tooth & Claw (Comic Book) / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
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Beginnings (Fanfic) / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
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Infinity Pool / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
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Freelance Astronauts (Lets Play) / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
KonoSuba / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
KonoSuba / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
Odd Squad Agent's Handbook / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
The Saga of Tanya the Evil / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
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Bubble Bobble (Video Game) / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
Chants of Sennaar (Video Game) / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
Chicory: A Colorful Tale (Video Game) / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
Commander Keen (Video Game) / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax (Video Game) / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
Hyper Light Drifter (Video Game) / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
LEGO Star Wars (Video Game) / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
Lilo & Stitch 2: HÃ¤msterviel Havoc (Video Game) / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
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Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time (Video Game) / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom (Video Game) / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
Noita (Video Game) / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
PokÃ©mon Black and White (Video Game) / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
PowerWash Simulator (Video Game) / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom (Video Game) / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
Spiritfarer (Video Game) / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
Tales of the Abyss (Video Game) / int_c4150a20	type	Wingdinglish
The ClueFinders 5th Grade Adventures: The Secret of the Living Volcano (Video Game) / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
The Legend of Banjo-Kazooie: The Jiggies of Time (Video Game) / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
The Sims 4 (Video Game) / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
Them's Fightin' Herds (Video Game) / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
Unleash the Light (Video Game) / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
Wandersong (Video Game) / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
Kurzgesagt (Web Animation) / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
Underverse (Web Animation) / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
Arthur, King of Time and Space (Webcomic) / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
Bar'd (Webcomic) / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
Daughter of the Lilies (Webcomic) / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
Eerie Cuties (Webcomic) / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
Iji (Captain Lhurgoyf) (Webcomic) / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
Immortal Man (Webcomic) / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
Play Nintendo Comics (Webcomic) / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
Poppy O'Possum (Webcomic) / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
Roommates (Webcomic) / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
Tales of the Questor (Webcomic) / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
Abby Hatcher / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
Corn & Peg / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
Storm Hawks / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
T.O.T.S. / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
The LEGO Ninjago Movie / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
Vampirina / int_c03aa600	type	Wingdinglish
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