The Coolest Looking Languages

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I like Russian... some hangover from the Cold War makes Cyrillic letters look sinister and wonderous at the same time.

And I like Khmer... it just looks like such jibberish, it has to be cool.

But my favorite looking language is probably Arabic... so exotic and completely un-alphabetic. I think the TinTin books of my youth had a hand in this.

Devoid of actual meaning, what languages look the coolest?

― andy, Friday, 20 February 2004 20:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Sanscrit!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 20 February 2004 20:46 (twenty-two years ago)

American Sign Language.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 20 February 2004 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Sanskrit!
(bahaha xpost)

― oops (Oops), Friday, 20 February 2004 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Korean.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 20 February 2004 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, maybe if you're a circle-loving freak!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 20 February 2004 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Armenian

― Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 20 February 2004 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

"I like Russian... some hangover from the Cold War makes Cyrillic letters look sinister and wonderous at the same time"
completely. it's just mesmerizing.

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Friday, 20 February 2004 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.learnkhmer.com/khme002.gif

― andy, Friday, 20 February 2004 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Track/7635/_zh.gif is my favorite, it's pronounced like the "s" in pleasure

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Friday, 20 February 2004 20:56 (twenty-two years ago)

non - ledgible English

http://www.napier.ac.uk/qes/studentretentionproject/studentbooklets/images/writing.jpg

― Aja (aja), Friday, 20 February 2004 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

legible

― Aja (aja), Friday, 20 February 2004 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

the first two that immediately came to mind are arabic and russian, esp. old school russian.

― todd swiss (eliti), Friday, 20 February 2004 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

"do the rooster yourself next time. Get yourself down here!"

― oops (Oops), Friday, 20 February 2004 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I think you're right

― Aja (aja), Friday, 20 February 2004 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, Quenya.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 February 2004 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Wait.

Do the rest yourself next time. Get yourself down here.

― Aja (aja), Friday, 20 February 2004 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

(yes i know but rooster is funnier)

― oops (Oops), Friday, 20 February 2004 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

hebrew. everytime.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Friday, 20 February 2004 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

completely un-alphabetic

You mean totally different from the Latin alphabet?

― Leee Majors (Leee), Friday, 20 February 2004 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.ancientscripts.com/images/devanagari.gif

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 20 February 2004 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)

(devangari)

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 20 February 2004 21:20 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.ancientscripts.com/ws_regions.html
awesome site!

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 20 February 2004 21:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Alphabet = Alpha, Beta, etc.

― andy, Friday, 20 February 2004 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I wanna see a whole sentence written out of this:
http://www.ancientscripts.com/images/ugaritic.gif

― oops (Oops), Friday, 20 February 2004 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)

http://inter.scoutnet.org/semaphore/font0/s.gif http://inter.scoutnet.org/semaphore/font0/e.gif http://inter.scoutnet.org/semaphore/font0/m.gif http://inter.scoutnet.org/semaphore/font0/a.gif http://inter.scoutnet.org/semaphore/font0/p.gif http://inter.scoutnet.org/semaphore/font0/h.gif http://inter.scoutnet.org/semaphore/font0/o.gif http://inter.scoutnet.org/semaphore/font0/r.gif http://inter.scoutnet.org/semaphore/font0/e.gif

― Paul Eater (eater), Friday, 20 February 2004 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

it'd been cooler if you spelled out "eat a bag of dicks".
or "eat a bag of semaphoric dicks"

― oops (Oops), Friday, 20 February 2004 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Telugu is pretty fantastic-looking!

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Friday, 20 February 2004 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Would the alephbet be distinct from the alphabet?

― Leee Majors (Leee), Friday, 20 February 2004 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

i like how the armenian and georgian alphabets look

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 20 February 2004 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Arabic and Tibetan, though I don't know if there is a distinct name for Tibetan--it seems likely.

― webcrack (music=crack), Friday, 20 February 2004 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Of the various Indian languages, I think I like Tamil the most

http://www.agfamonotype.co.uk/grafx/non-latin/tamil/tamilgr.gif

― the krza (krza), Friday, 20 February 2004 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Captain and Tamil?

― Leee Majors (Leee), Friday, 20 February 2004 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

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