3054: Scream Cipher

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Scream Cipher

Title text: AAAAAA A ÃA̧AȂA̦ ǍÅÂÃĀÁȂ AAAAAAA!

Explanation

A Cipher is a method of encryption, where characters, or sometimes words, are substituted for other characters in a set pattern, allowing for arbitrary strings to be enciphered using it. The complexity and strength of ciphers varies, from one-time pads and (historically) Enigma as stronger and more complex, to substitution ciphers as some of the weakest and least complex, where each character is simply given a set different symbol to represent it in the cipher.

This comic uses a substitution cipher, where all the letters of the English Alphabet are represented using the letter "A", with different diacritical marks to define the differences. See details about the 25 marks in the Trivia section below. This kind of cipher is often used on a recreational basis by children or casual enthusiasts, the similarity of the letters increasing the obscurity of the content and the skill or technology required for use, but there is also significant impracticality, as not only are substitution ciphers the easiest to break, but also the similarities in the letters do make the cipher hard to read and easy to misread, and the detail in the diacritical marks makes it easy to draw the "A"s incorrectly or ambiguously, potentially leading to part of the message being lost. This was our experience in the comments section of this very article, where one person implemented translator functions alongside another person crafting a message that failed to translate. However, the logic behind the code is mostly visual similarity, and if attentive to connecting concepts between the Latin and scream cipher alphabet, it could be quickly learned and translated in a glance.

It's named "Scream Cipher" (as a pun on stream ciphers, commonly used in computing) because the written form of a scream is often a long string of As, possibly with some other characters at the beginning or the end (and often an exclamation point for emphasis), such as "Yyaaaaaww!” or “Aaaaaah!" or "Aaaaaaagh!". The name may or may not be a reference to IBM's Scream cipher published in 2002.

In the comic, Cueball texts the ciphered version for the plaintext "HELLO", and Megan responds with that for "HI". The title text deciphers to "AAAAAA A SCARY MONSTER AAAAAAA!"

Another recent comic featuring all "A"s was 2957: A Crossword Puzzle.

Diacritics was also the main theme in 1647: Diacritics^{[citation needed]} and was previously also mentioned in 1209: Encoding and in 1857: Emoji Movie where they have an important part of the pun, and is mentioned in one point of the list in 1957: 2018 CVE List.

Worked example

Say we want to encode "Scream" in the Scream Cipher. First we would need to split out word into the letters, so S, C, R, E, A, M.

The first letter is S, so if we go to S in the table S is shown to become to Ã, C similarly becomes A̧, R becomes Ȃ, E corresponds to Á, A is the main letter so A is unchanged to A, and M becomes Ǎ. If we then write them again in order, we find SCREAM becomes ÃA̧ȂÁAǍ.

To turn cipher text back into normal text, the process is repeated in reverse. To translate A̧ẢA̯A̰ÁȂ, we go to A̧ in the table and find A̧ becomes C. Ả similarly becomes I, A̯ becomes P, A̰ becomes H, Á becomes E, and Ȃ becomes R. If we write the letters in order, we see that A̧ẢA̯A̰ÁȂ becomes CIPHER.

Text can be automatically translated using any of the following community implimentations:

• The first known translator hosted on GitHub Pages.
• A more bare-bones implementation hosted on netlify.
• A terminal implementation.

Transcript

[The top of the panel has the 26 letters of the alphabet written, each followed by a hyphen and the letter "A" with a unique diacritical mark for each. "A - A" is the only letter in the top row, and the only one where that A on the right side doesn't have a diacritic. The next 25 is sorted in a 5 by 5 grid, with the first five letters after A in the first column, then the next 5 in the second column and so on:]

A - A
B - Ȧ	G - A̋	L - Ă	Q - A̤	V - À
C - A̧	H - A̰	M - Ǎ	R - Ȃ	W - Ȁ
D - A̱	I - Ả	N - Â	S - Ã	X - A̽
E - Á	J - A̓	O - Å	T - Ā	Y - A̦
F - A̮	K - Ạ	P - A̯	U - Ä	Z - Ⱥ

[Beneath these letters we see Cueball and Megan typing on their phones, Cueball with two hands and Megan with one hand, small lines indicating the movement of their hands. Cueball and Megan is turned towards each other but with more separation than if they were engaged in normal discussion. They both look down at their phones not towards each other. The text they type is shown above their phone with a line starting in a starburst at the top of their phones going up the to the text.]

Cueball's phone: A̰ÁĂĂÅ

Megan's phone: A̰Ả

[Caption below the panel:]

In the Scream Cipher, messages consist of all As, with different letters distinguished using diacritics.

Trivia

The Unicode names of the characters in the cipher are as follows:

Input		Substitution
Plain	Unicode description	Cipher	Unicode description(s)	Notes
A	U+0041 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A	A	U+0041 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A	Unadorned base character
B	U+0042 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER B	Ȧ	U+0226 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DOT ABOVE	A with one dot over it, which can indicate a single change in math and science. Phonetic symbol for low central vowel.
C	U+0043 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C	A̧	U+0041 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A, U+0327 COMBINING CEDILLA	Cedilla is often attached to a 'c', as in "français", as well as starting with 'c' itself. Appears similar to Ą (U+0104, A with ogonek) used in many language to denote a nasal a sound and in Polish to denote a nasal o sound, however the two can be distinguished by the direction of the diacritic.
D	U+0044 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D	A̱	U+0041 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A, U+0331 COMBINING MACRON BELOW	Some see the lower bar as similar to the lower edge of the D.
E	U+0045 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E	Á	U+00C1 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE	Many words have an acute e, as in "fiancé".
F	U+0046 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER F	A̮	U+0041 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A, U+032E COMBINING BREVE BELOW	The breve adds a second line to the A, much like how an F has two lines.
G	U+0047 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G	A̋	U+0041 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A, U+030B COMBINING DOUBLE ACUTE ACCENT	Adds two acutes to a letter.
H	U+0048 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H	A̰	U+0041 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A, U+0330 COMBINING TILDE BELOW	The low tilde has horizontal ink in the middle that moves vertical toward the sides, like an H.
I	U+0049 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I	Ả	U+1EA2 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH HOOK ABOVE	The hook almost looks like half of a circle, and the lowercase letter I (i) has a circular shape (known as a tittle) above it.
J	U+004A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER J	A̓	U+0041 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A, U+0313 COMBINING COMMA ABOVE	The comma symbol looks like a small letter 'J' in some fonts
K	U+004B LATIN CAPITAL LETTER K	Ạ	U+1EA0 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DOT BELOW
L	U+004C LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L	Ă	U+0102 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH BREVE
M	U+004D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER M	Ǎ	U+01CD LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CARON	The top-centered caron is the same shape as the top center of the M.
N	U+004E LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N	Â	U+00C2 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX	The lowercase letter 'n' also looks like a circumflex in some scripts. The circumflex peak mirrors the peak at the top left of the N.
O	U+004F LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O	Å	U+00C5 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE	The symbol contains the letter 'O'. In Scandinavian languages like Swedish, this combination of 'O' and 'A' is a letter unto itself, mostly used in words where a long 'a' sound has acquired a more 'o'-like sound.
P	U+0050 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER P	A̯	U+0041 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A, U+032F COMBINING INVERTED BREVE BELOW	Refer to R: P also has a curve at the top center, but is encoded with one below.
Q	U+0051 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Q	A̤	U+0041 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A, U+0324 COMBINING DIAERESIS BELOW	The two dots below the baseline reflect the two times Randall's Q touch the baseline. In the Orthographies of Spanish, Catalan, French and Galician, the grapheme 'qu' normally represents a single sound, before vowels 'e' and 'i'. In the few exceptions where the 'u' is pronounced, a diaeresis is added to it.
R	U+0052 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R	Ȃ	U+0202 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH INVERTED BREVE	The inverted centered top curve mirrors the curve at the top center of an R.
S	U+0053 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S	Ã	U+00C3 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH TILDE	Tilde looks like a sideways 'S'.
T	U+0054 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T	Ā	U+0100 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH MACRON	The macron looks like the top horizontal line in the letter 'T'
U	U+0055 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U	Ä	U+00C4 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS	The two dot mark is used in many words in languages like German, Finnish and Swedish, with 'Ä' used as in "Ärzte". As a true diaresis, it often indicates a vowel that is distinct from neighbouring vowels, rather than part of a digraph or longer phoneme. As a modifier of the vowel itself, as with the germanic/nordic languages, it is more properly called an 'umlaut' and may change a back vowel into a front vowel, though the two terms are often used interchangably.
V	U+0056 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER V	À	U+00C0 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH GRAVE	Grave has the letter 'V' in it, as well as being half of its shape.
W	U+0057 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W	Ȁ	U+0200 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DOUBLE GRAVE	The letter 'W' is visually two copies of the letter 'V'
X	U+0058 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER X	A̽	U+0041 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A, U+033D COMBINING X ABOVE	The symbol contains the letter 'X'.
Y	U+0059 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y	A̦	U+0041 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A, U+0326 COMBINING COMMA BELOW	The comma mimics the vertical "tail" of the Y.
Z	U+005A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z	Ⱥ	U+023A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH STROKE	The stroke through the letter A resembles the diagonal stroke of a capital "Z"

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Discussion

Anyone know a good free all-language OCR tool to help with the transcript? 172.69.67.156 17:30, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

Found one here: https://www.lexilogos.com/keyboard/diacritics.htm MeZimm (talk) 17:52, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

The written cipher is very interesting, but where can I hear recordings of the spoken form? Rockymountain 17:31, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

Here ya go. MeZimm (talk) 17:54, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

Are Cueball and Megan millenials? Who else would text greetings when they're standing right next to each other? Barmar (talk) 17:38, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

They could be texting other people. B for brain (talk) (youtube channel wobsite (supposed to be a blag)) 19:37, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

Engineers and cyberfolk were text messaging their neighbors rather than talking long before it was cool encouraged for social distancing or quarantine! It's always helpful to get a reminder not to do this. 162.158.159.101 20:37, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

They might not be diegetically in the same room. Comics can get weird with physical space. GreatWyrmGold (talk) 20:34, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

Likely a pun on "stream cipher"

Related reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_(cipher) 172.68.26.229 17:46, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

A̦ÅÄ ẠÂÅȀ, A̓A̅ ȀÅÄĂA̱ ȦÁ ÂÁAĂĂA̦ A̮ÄÂÂA̦ A̓A̮ ȀÁ A̱A̓A̱ A ÀÁÂÃA̓ÅÂ ÅA̮ A̅A̰A̓Ã A̭AA̋Á A̓Â A̅A̰A̓Ã ÃA̅A̦ĂÁ! MeZimm (talk) 17:50, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

The Wikifunction from Scream returns "YOU KNOW, JA̅ WOULD BE NEALLY FUNNY JF WE DJD A VENSJON OF A̅HJS A̭AGE JN A̅HJS SA̅YLE!". Hmmm... Mwarren (talk) 19:04, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

The page you link to came into existence 7 minutes after I had posted this comment ;) I was doing it all manually, using this page and best-guess attempts to interpret what Randall's handwritten diacritics were meant to correspond to. MeZimm (talk) 19:55, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

updated version: "A̦ÅÄ ẠÂÅȀ, ẢĀ ȀÅÄĂA̱ ȦÁ ȂÁAĂĂA̦ A̮ÄÂÂA̦ ẢA̮ ȀÁ A̱ẢA̱ A ÀÁȂÃẢÅÂ ÅA̮ ĀA̰ẢÃ A̯AA̋Á ẢÂ ĀA̰ẢÃ ÃĀA̦ĂÁ!" MeZimm (talk) 20:01, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

On Wikifunctions, we implemented the two functions to Scream Cipher and from Scream Cipher --172.70.38.235 18:09, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

It looks like the wikifunctions are using a different character for "D" than the github project linked in the explanation. Seems as though one's using U+0331 and the other's using 0332. Schiffy (Speak to me|What I've done) 20:32, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

Could always be made fault-tolerant, accepting both characters. If one wants to be conservative with A-candidates to save them for further alphabetical expansion, well, we might have to ask Randall for proper specification.172.71.160.94 08:42, 3 March 2025 (UTC)

Is there a logic behind the choices of the letter? I guess A̧ is for C because of the French ç and Å is pronounced like O in some Nordic languages. Also, is it A̱, A̲ or A̲ ? (or something else). 172.71.126.50 18:10, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

Seems to be mostly visual similarity. Å has an actual O shape added to it. 172.70.110.171 20:19, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

I give it a week for people to make a translator to and from this cipher. Caliban (talk) 18:20, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

The Wikifunctions translations above were complete at least 11 minutes before your comment and well within the goal of one week :-) . Mwarren (talk) 19:04, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

Numbers should be variations of h and/or g. Andyd273 (talk) 18:32, 21 February 2025 (UTC)#

H > g SqueakSquawk4 (talk) 18:59, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

Using sed you can encode with sed 's/C/A̧/g;s/D/A̱/g;s/F/A̮/g;s/G/A̋/g;s/H/A̰/g;s/J/A̓/g;s/P/A̯/g;s/Q/A̤/g;s/X/A̽/g;s/Y/A̦/g;y/BEIKLMNORSTUVWZ/ȦÁẢẠĂǍÂÅȂÃĀÄÀȀȺ/' and decode with sed 's/A̧/C/g;s/A̱/D/g;s/A̮/F/g;s/A̋/G/g;s/A̰/H/g;s/A̓/J/g;s/A̯/P/g;s/A̤/Q/g;s/A̽/X/g;s/A̦/Y/g;y/ȦÁẢẠĂǍÂÅȂÃĀÄÀȀȺ/BEIKLMNORSTUVWZ/'. 162.158.159.102 18:41, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

This is really neat. I suppose `tr` might work too. 162.158.10.242 16:15, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

I don't think `tr` can be used, at least not the most common (GNU) implementation; it doesn't do multibyte characters (and thus UTF-8 or other Unicode). chaw (talk) 20:32, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

You'd be able to use Perl's inbuilt equivalent tr/// (or y///) fair enough. I'd have to test for edge cases, but might or might not have to fight with /u or /l post-params (if otherwise desired), in concatonation with /i for case-insensitivity (useful for upconverting "plainText" to "CIPHERTEXT", unless you're also wanting to cater for "á" as well as "Á" in code, so that it can be restored upon decoding). There's plenty of scope for all of this, of course, well beyond the brief spec as given in the comic. 162.158.74.108 20:47, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

It would be really funny if someone added an image of Bill Cipher screaming, with the tag "A screaming cipher". It wouldn't reall fit but it'd be funny SqueakSquawk4 (talk) 18:59, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

I did. B for brain (talk) (youtube channel wobsite (supposed to be a blag)) 19:57, 21 February 2025 (UTC) (EDIT: WOW, that thing is MASSIVE! Can someone please downscale it because I have no idea how. You have permission to edit my comment only for that.) (DOUBLE EDIT: Nevermind, I did it.)

ThAT's GoLD ⯅A dream demon⯅ (talk) 14:15, 19 March 2025 (UTC)

Someone started a GitHub repo with a web-based encoded/decoder already: https://github.com/Reginald-Gillespie/StreamCipher Dlech (talk) 19:35, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

I'd almost want to edit in my repo instead of the current one because mine is objectively better, but I'm new to this and not sure if that's appropriate or not =P (I don't even know if I am commenting correctly) WKoA (talk) 00:17, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

Look to the likes of the 1190: Time comic, where several different fanbase compilations may have been given. I would anticipate that you could do a decent job of editing "This thing here does..." into "Ways of experiencing it include this [existing one] and that [yours] [with room to add more, if they add up]. Or just mention your link here, let others decide if your claims of (better?) functionality stand up enough to prompt it to be put up alongside/ahead/instead of the other. I am at least intrigued as to how you did it differently.

And you certainly had a bit of trouble with the signing. Just add ~~~~ to the end of Talk comments and it autoreplaces. No need to go back in and edit (I added the original timestamp back in, for you, just for future reference). Unless of course you forgot to do it the first time... ;) 172.71.178.161 02:41, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

I know you can decode a substitution cipher by counting letters and replacing common ones like 'E' and then filling in the rest by inspection, but what kinds of automated approaches are there? 162.158.159.105 20:14, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

HEADS UP: I just changed A̲ (0332 COMBINING LOW LINE) to A̱ (0331 COMBINING MACRON BELOW) as encoding for "D" in the table and the transcript. Rationale: "T" is written with macron, so it's only logical to encode "D" likewise. A "low line" is longer than a macron, and looking at Randall's comic, the line below the "D" is definitely not longer than the one above "T". It would also make no sense to encode "T" with a "combining low line" as well when a single, uncombined character exists. 172.70.114.123 20:29, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

These options should all be including as different writing styles! I think the longer line makes it clearer that A̲ represents D because the ink comes nearer to forming into a closed curve. 172.68.54.68 15:55, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

What's the American alphabet? AnAussie 172.68.64.213 01:16, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

I coined this term. What I meant by it is the alphabet used by americans from the point of view of an american cultural experience (mine), where for example a decorated word like façade is seen so infrequently that the word cedilla may be equated with the letter C. 162.158.62.105 20:24, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

I expect to win a Turing Award for my proof this cypher is computationally equivalent to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_language) 172.71.158.19 02:57, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

The page technically uses the incorrect characters for (at least) E, M, N, O, R, S, and T based on the title text shown on xkcd.com. The original title text uses two separate characters (ex. A + 0301 COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT for E), whereas the table uses the combined character (ex. 00C1 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE for E). Alternatively, my browser is just doing something weird. Not necessarily worth updating, but something I noticed when implementing the cipher. Abus (talk) 06:22, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

I think it's the browser. Firefox->Page Source gives me A+COMBINING WHATEVER, but w3m -dump_source https://xkcd.com/3054/ | zcat | grep 'img.*title=' returns single characters. The title text here on explainxkcd was copied by TheusafBOT. I trust TheusafBOT and w3m to be so basic and simple that they wouldn't try to do something 'clever' with the characters, whereas I tend to suspect the multi-MB-monster Firefox messed things up. I'm just guessing, though... could maybe someone test with yet another browser - e.g. Edge or Opera? 162.158.159.107 11:52, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

Argh, no, turns out w3m, and also wget all return A+COMBINING THINGY, but they got merged into the single chars by my xterm when I copied them to some 'identify unicode' web page. Looking at the raw file dumped by wget I see A+COMBINING XX - I think... So I think you are right with your observation! Randall uses A+COMBINING XX for the title text on XKCD (though I really doubt that was intentional), then TheusafBOT merged the characters when it copied the text to create this page. That said, I still think using the merged chars is cleaner. 162.158.159.107 12:20, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

It may be worth noting the difference somewhere, even though the merged chars are cleaner. Someone copying the characters from this page to encipher text would technically be in violation of the "spec" since Randall used the two character version in the title text. If someone wished to decipher the title text from the original XKCD, this characters on this page would fail. Abus (talk) 18:56, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

unsure how to indent a sourceblock, see below 172.68.54.167 16:13, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

$ curl -s https://m.xkcd.com | sed -ne 's/.*id="altText">\([^<]*\)<.*/\1/p' | iconv -f utf8 -t wchar_t | hexdump -C
00000000  41 00 00 00 41 00 00 00  41 00 00 00 41 00 00 00  |A...A...A...A...|
00000010  41 00 00 00 41 00 00 00  20 00 00 00 41 00 00 00  |A...A... ...A...|
00000020  20 00 00 00 41 00 00 00  03 03 00 00 41 00 00 00  | ...A.......A...|
00000030  27 03 00 00 41 00 00 00  41 00 00 00 11 03 00 00  |'...A...A.......|
00000040  41 00 00 00 26 03 00 00  20 00 00 00 41 00 00 00  |A...&... ...A...|
00000050  0c 03 00 00 41 00 00 00  0a 03 00 00 41 00 00 00  |....A.......A...|
00000060  02 03 00 00 41 00 00 00  03 03 00 00 41 00 00 00  |....A.......A...|
00000070  04 03 00 00 41 00 00 00  01 03 00 00 41 00 00 00  |....A.......A...|
00000080  11 03 00 00 20 00 00 00  41 00 00 00 41 00 00 00  |.... ...A...A...|
00000090  41 00 00 00 41 00 00 00  41 00 00 00 41 00 00 00  |A...A...A...A...|
000000a0  41 00 00 00 21 00 00 00  0a 00 00 00              |A...!.......|

TRIARESIS Does anyone else view the triaresis as a missed opportunity? I'm thinking of Die Aerzte". [1]. Can someone insert the image of the band's logo? 172.71.102.222 17:21, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

I saw that, when following up on the actual A-diaresisand I quite like the idea that they heavy metal umlauted an actual existing umlaut/diaeresis... If it weren't irrelevent to the comic (and skipped the bit at the top that actually translates the name), I might have relinked to that anchor point. But happily boosting the visibility of it here with a small reply⋯ 172.68.205.122 21:31, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

Yes, should encode all numbers, in binary, using 'g' and 'h' for 0 and 1.172.70.162.195 17:56, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

Why g and h? I saw an early comment saying the same. Why those when letters are A? --Kynde (talk) 18:14, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

I presume for the "AAAAAAAAAGH!" type thing... (Although, given that a number would then be something like GHHHGGH, as a separate word, I'm not sure it'll look "AAAAAAAGH"ish.

And is it coded as MSF (42=101010), N-bit (e.g. =00101010), BCD per digit (4=0100 2=0010 =01000010) or some other form? Plenty of scope for interpretation.

Also, might I suggest E and I (or I and E) for it, instead..? IEIEIE EEIEIEIE EIEEEEIE! 172.68.205.178 19:10, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

Should "Augh" be added to the versions of screaming? Randall uses it alot, e.g. https://xkcd.com/493/, https://xkcd.com/1401/, https://xkcd.com/1388/, https://xkcd.com/1207/, https://xkcd.com/1226/, https://xkcd.com/780/, https://xkcd.com/990/ -- Drkaii (talk) 18:06, 22 February 2025 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

ÅĂÃÃÀ ÂȦA̮Ⱥ! A̯ ȀA̦ÀȀÀȺĂ A̰ ÂÀÀẠ A̤ÀẢ AA̦ÀȀÅA̮ ǍA̦ÀĀ 2916 AÀ A̰ÄA̮ÀÄĂ A̱ÅÀ A̓A̰Ä ǍA̯ÄẠ A̓ÅA̰A̦A̰A̓AĂA̦Ⱥ ǍÀA̦ ȀȦÄA̓AȦA̰AA̯ÀÄ A̰ÄẠ ÄȦĀẢĂA̦Ⱥ AÀ A̰ẠẠ A̯ÄAÀ AÅĂ A̓A̯ȀÅĂA̦, A̰ÄẠ A̱ÅA̯AĂ ÅA̰A'Ⱥ ÅA̰A AÀ A̰ÄA̮ÀÄĂ A̱ÅÀ A̓A̰Ä ẠĂA̓A̯ȀÅĂA̦ AÅA̯Ⱥ A̯Ä 1 ĀA̯ÄȦAĂ ẢA̮ ÅA̰ÄẠ. (A̰ẢÂĀ: ĀȂA̦ A A̧ẢA̯A̰ÁȂ ĀA̰AĀ ȦÁA̋ẢÂÃ ȀẢĀA̰ ĀA̰Á ȦĂÄÁ, AÂA̱ A̱ÅÁÃ ẢĀÃ ȀÅȂẠ ȦA̦ A̱ÅẢÂA̋ A ĀȂAÂÃĂAĀẢÅÂ.) (A̰ẢÂĀ ĀÅ ĀA̰Á A̰ẢÂĀ: ĀA̰Á ȦĂÄÁ A̧ÅÀÁȂÃ 70% ÅA̮ ĀA̰Á ȀÅȂĂA̱'Ã ÃÄȂA̮AA̧Á.) 162.158.90.46 03:57, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

Can anybody provide pronunciation notes or recordings for those 'A's which are actually used in human languages? Can we transcribe the title text and the "Hello", "Hi" from the comic in IPA or something? 141.101.99.88 10:33, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

Choose the base letters arbitrarily other than ‘A’ and we get furigana. 物灵 (talk) 05:38, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

If you accept the definition that a 'word' is a bunch of letters, surrounded by a gap, then 'xnopyt', AAAAAAJJJJJJJ 172.68.71.111 15:40, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

A̰ 172.69.71.144 16:48, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

The Trivia "Notes" section reads like pareidolia. -- Rei (talk) 13:16, 24 February 2025 (UTC)
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