Oct
11th
2017
[Spoiler - minor] Easter Egg! · 1:01pm Oct 11th, 2017
So I finally gave in and watched the leaked finale.
It was awesome. Liquid pride may have attempted to make an appearance. Don't tell anypony.
About 5 minutes into the first half of it, I noticed something awesome. This is that moment of geek.
Sunburst: Dude, I've never seen runes like this before!
Me: I have. That's Elder Futhark...Norse runes in ponyland!
PONI RUIES indeed. Somepony made a typo with a chisel. Chisel-o?
Do you think they meant PONI RULES or PONI RUINS?
I think I want this on a bumper sticker. In the original runic.
Fonts have consequences. That second I is actually a lower-case L in your reference material.
Oh. That makes sense. Thanks, Twi!
Okay, that’s just awesome.
Is there a Y in those runes?
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Old Norse didn't have a Y. Whoever made that graffiti forgot that they used J for the Y sound, so they didn't use the Jera rune (ᛃ).
Poni works; I dunno if the J-as-Y would work in a terminal situation; I'm certainly no expert. I've only seen it in the middle of words: mjolnir, Freyja, etc.
Oh, yes, they've added runes to unicode at some point so you can copy paste them as text :D Woo!
ᛈᛟᛀᛁ ᚱᚢᛚᛖᛋ!
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Interesting I wonder if modern graffiti would be as prevelent if you had to carve it into the brick by hand rather than just painting things?