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Let's try to figure out something.

I think we should try with different languages beside English: Black Dragon is Chinese, BRB is Spanish, and Dracco is German. Russia is another of large market, and I would put it in the list. My bet is the alphabet/scripts could be words of one of these languages, but I would not exclude that sometimes they could mix things keeping the same alphabet.

I don't know nothing of Chinese, so I don't think I will understand how dechiper what they wrote down if they use that. :/ Spanish and Italian are very different, although some words sounds similar, so if is Spanish I could recognise it.

We can't be sure, but we can start thinking that in the flyer is wrote "Monster". Is also possible that the word is "Wanted", "Beware", or something else, but we need to start from something.

English: I don't find a six word letter for "monster", they fall all to over or less of six (like "freak"). I think they aren't using english there. Is possible that is another word like "attention", "beware", but if the alphabet is working, mean is a word without same letters in it.

Spanish: should be "monstruo", too long. Irony is that the Italian word is very similar but of six letters, "mostro".
But there is "Bestia" (this word is same in Italian too), that mean "beast" or "dangerous animal".

German: mainly "Monster" or "Scheusal", but there are some other terms: "Untier", close to the meaning "beast, animal", a six and different letters. That is very fitting becouse in the flyer there is a "large beast".

http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/dings.cgi?lang=en&service=deen&opterrors=0&optpro=0&query=monster&iservic e=&comment=&email=

Russian: I find монстр, monstr translittered, that is fitting too! There also other russian words that could work, Zejgar?

Chinese: 怪物, that translitterated is a six letter word could fit too, "Guàiwù"; but I find strange that the Chinese artists translittered chinese words, thinking that the "letters" of their alphabet represents entire words, for what I know.

So, for what I see, this time the English is not the language used, so I would check more other languages. There is the fact that Wranglum is, anyway, a English pun, so I still would not really take out this from the list for now.

It looks similar to the predacon alphabet.
NPQVL8? Doesn't exactly look like it though.

After reading some of Greyfeather's initial tweets, I looked up the Taiwanese "Bopomofo" system for writing Chinese in SMS-es and pronouncement guides. Looking up the order of m-o-n-s-t-er, I got "ㄇㄛㄋㄙㄊㄦ". The 2nd, 5th and 6th letters in that sentence does show clear similiraties, albeit the FF letters has been heavily stylized; so much so that I see no real similarities in the remaining three letters. Also, it'd be pretty cool if the Chinese/Hong Kong parts of the production did in fact use a Taiwanese spelling system

I have earlier been assuming that the script was a bunch of random letters for decoration purposes, and I had in the >>203 thread tried to find letters from all over the world that fit it. I eventually landed on Ƥ.त्गं.わɇ乙水, before Zejgar announced that he didn't plan on a making a full-on mock-script decoded as he had been trying out.

>>357
>I don't know nothing of Chinese, so I don't think I will understand how dechiper what they wrote down if they use that. :/
I've been reading up a lot on spelling systems and alphabets on Wikipedia over the years, so I should be pretty prepared for a discussion like this.

>>356
>Seems the BRB have no trouble to explain some small detail in the setting until these don't spoil nothing about the development.
Well, perhaps they do indeed see the humour(?) in all the questions?

>>358
I got it more as PY?HLKB, but it's still a big difference between the Predacon script and the FF script.

>It looks similar to the predacon alphabet.
I am by far the most familiar with TF through Transformers Prime, where the Predacons weren't organized enough to have their own script, so take it that the script is from another Transformers cartoon?

>>358
Gotcha Methaneplateau!
Walter McDaniel, the actual co-founder of Black Dragon, worked also at the Transformer franchise: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_A._McDaniel
I didn't find exacly what was his contribute, but is possible that he took some ispiration from a franchise he worked on.
Probably his staff took the letter and modified the glyps, and probably the matching between sounds and letter.
Unfortunately this don't help us much, but we could try to match the letters of some words with the Predacon one to see if there are some things that still match anyway. (I tried but for now I don't find similarities for now with the words tried :/).

I searched the NPQVL8 in case is a easter egg, but I didn't find nothing of meaningless either.

Just observation: if that can be matched to Predacon as NPSV08, then calculating differences between letters, P-N=2, S-P=3, V-S=3, if assumed the first letter is T, substracting 2, 3, 3, will get TROLL.

>>359
I remember that some study of the script was already done, but I did not find it anymore. Thanks!

Is also possible that Daniel suggested to mix the Taiwanese system with some Predacon glyph, taking ispiration from both. Why not? They are artists, an artists reinterpretare the reality.

Anyway we really need of more script to understan how dechiper this script, but I think that figure out at least the language is a starting point. My best bet for now is chinese with Bopomofo system as you point out. When we will find some other (readable) written stuff, we can already make some tests! :D

>Well, perhaps they do indeed see the humour(?) in all the questions?

I'm well aware that the PR guy could just troll us, but I'm not get angry: after all his work is make some "hype" for advertising purposes.
I must say that I find much better in this way than the Americans: I find they so tight in what they can say that is near impossible to get a reply on the most simple things. Is... weary.
At least, the guys at BRB give us something to entertain ourself.

Maybe we will find out they just troll us, and then I will just make a laught of how I just going crazy for some gibberish stuff. :D

>I am by far the most familiar with TF through Transformers Prime, where the Predacons weren't organized enough to have their own script, so take it that the script is from another Transformers cartoon?

Possible... maybe I can ask to a person there.

>>362

Methaneplateau!, being naive, I'm not sure if this is a joke or not (sorry, I not kidding here :D).
But yes, you have right too: reading in the way you suggest, make the script an easter egg / secret message. The moster indeed is quite "trollish" too :D.

>>363
Or TROLL'D. It might be originally a collection of pictures intended for putting somewhere together with a prank saying troll'd. In that case, Fillies had rather bring them to Academy rather than finding in the library.

The similar blue troll was an enemy in a game Winx club(PC/PS2), which had similar glossy style of 3D. The hallway in the trailer is not dissimilar to halls of its level 2 (Alfea school). It's logical that all magic schools would be a bit similar to each other, actually...

>>365

Is also true that both Isabella and Rose are hiding something about the monster too... Can I say they are "trolling" with the monster story? :D)

>>356
Also looking for other script, effectively there is nothing else readable than already uncovered by Funtasia Daily in previous articles. The only other two istances of some writing is on the map in one of the trailers, and the screen on the book from the Black Dragon article, in both cases unreadable.
We figure out some similarities already, anyway.

A thing I notice now is that the F is both the the stamp of the flyers, and on the wall of Princess Sparkle room.
Maybe is really a "seal" or the symbol of the academy, but I wonder if they put there without an explanation universe-wise or not.

Is possible that all writing in Filly World is with the "filly script" (that we can learn to read too), and the F in their universe is not a letter, but just a magical symbol of the Academy.

I have a feeling we'll need some kind of "Rosetta Stone" for this language to truly make sense of it - some word or text where we can know or guess the meaning purely from context.

>>356

And today, we recall that we already have some other stuff-letters.

http://www.funtasiadaily.com/2014/05/filly-funtasia-3d-props-part-2.html

But also, I would add the neckacle of Rose, becouse the pattern on the amulet is similar to the letters. May cold be a letter too?

Somebody finds some matches?

>>491

Is very stretch, but "love potion" in chinese is a 4 letter word:

https://translate.google.it/?hl=it#en/zh-CN/love%20potion
爱情药水 - Àiqíng yàoshuǐ

That strenghtens me the idea that the language is chinese, written with very simple hideograms, or with the taiwanese system.

hard to imagine anything written in 4 letters other than that EP05 itself...

>>491
Okay, people, bear with me as I lay out a trail of logic that is convoluted enough to resemble "troll logic", although not done by any trollers this time!

Trying out my ol' trustworthy Wikipedia Bopomofo guide, I got ㄛㄌㄘㄢ by massively simplifying the book cover's four letters, and it read "olcan" with the official Pinyin romanization (The older Wades-Giles system render it "oltsan".). I then entered "olcan" into Google Translate, set the Chinese spelling-suggestion option to "Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan) - Pinyin", and the first suggestion that came up was 喔兩餐.

This is where the real stuff begin. There are several ways to interpret it, but I'll go with "Oh! Some meals!". 喔 seems like a generic declaration of importance. 兩 is a few things, in meanings such as "some", "a few", "both" or "either". 餐 is a meal, but noteworthily does not have any meanings of potions or brews.

So if I am right: "It's a cookbook. It's a cookbook!"

>>356

I tried to feed the Google traslator with the hand-written letters option and look if there are some letter-words that could be very close or match the chinese or some language. While I had not get much, I notice that the program suggested many chinese words, but also sometimes hindi or thaiwaneese. My bet is that this alphabet is, yes, invented, but took ispiration from the different one from the asia, redone to fitting the setting as we do with the western ones in our literature.

The program anyway gave me some interesting matches when propose me the "closest" letter he was understand. Does not demostrate nothing, is interesting to check out.

For the "monster" poster, I got this 3 matches very close in shape and meaning (thinking the context)
力 = force
ภ = Security
方 = Person

And

七 = seven
or
乜 = squint
ร = government service

More than a simple "Warning", the poster could says "Attention to everybody, is an emergency" and down "This is the direction of the school".