You can find the full discussion (900 posts long!) in threads #21, #22 and #23 Official Translation Within 21 hours of this discovery, the vast majority of runic text appearing in the first two episodes had been translated into German and English, all letters had been identified (except Q and X which are extremely rare in German, though they appeared later on). a/ quickly got to work using this starting set to translate more lines and fill in the gaps. This discovery confirmed that the runic script was a direct substitution for German letters and provided an initial set of translated runes to work with. The runes and the German sign they matched are marked in red on the translation chart for episodes one and two. A more focused approach, taking a single word or short phrase and attempting to match an appropriate German word to it also failed due to large amount of possible matches.Īfter some urging to use the Faust quotes as a Rosetta Stone, an anonymous found and posted a line of runes which matched one of those quotes. For example attempts at identifying the letters through numerical analysis of their frequency failed, implying that the runic script was not really a language (see complications below). Other candidate languages were: Japanese, English and Latin (due to the use of "Puella" in the title).Ī number of codebreaking methods were tried unsuccessfully. German was chosen as the most likely candidate because it appeared as direct quotes from Goethe's Faust and the Cottonballs/Pringlemen/Anthony's were observed to be chanting in German. The general (correct) assumption was that each rune corresponded to a letter in German but at the time it was still possible that the text was encrypted, a newly constructed language or even that they were just scattered completely at random. Initial efforts at codebreaking began by identifying each unique rune and assigning it a random letter for identification.
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