Talk:3054: Scream Cipher - Revision history

Definitely Bill Cipher at 14:15, 19 March 2025

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MeZimm at 17:23, 7 March 2025

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172.71.160.94 at 08:42, 3 March 2025

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141.101.98.175 at 09:44, 25 February 2025

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162.158.62.105 at 20:24, 24 February 2025

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172.69.71.144 at 16:48, 24 February 2025

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172.68.71.111 at 15:40, 24 February 2025

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Rei at 13:16, 24 February 2025

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172.71.241.79 at 09:31, 24 February 2025

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 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 [[User:SqueakSquawk4|SqueakSquawk4]] ([[User talk:SqueakSquawk4|talk]]) 18:59, 21 February 2025 (UTC)
 :[[File:Screamingcipher.png]] I did. [[User:B_for_brain|B for brain]] ([[User_talk:B_for_brain|talk]]) ([https://www.youtube.com/@bforbrain youtube channel] [https://bforbrain.weebly.com/ 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.)
 Someone started a GitHub repo with a web-based encoded/decoder already: https://github.com/Reginald-Gillespie/StreamCipher [[User:Dlech|Dlech]] ([[User talk:Dlech|talk]]) 19:35, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

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 Anyone know a good free all-language OCR tool to help with the transcript? [[Special:Contributions/172.69.67.156|172.69.67.156]] 17:30, 21 February 2025 (UTC)
-: Found one here: https://www.lexilogos.com/keyboard/diacritics.htm --mezimm [[Special:Contributions/172.68.2.70|172.68.2.70]] 17:52, 21 February 2025 (UTC)
+: Found one here: https://www.lexilogos.com/keyboard/diacritics.htm [[User:MeZimm|MeZimm]] ([[User talk:MeZimm|talk]]) 17:52, 21 February 2025 (UTC)
 The written cipher is very interesting, but where can I hear recordings of the spoken form? [[Special:Contributions/Rockymountain|Rockymountain]] 17:31, 21 February 2025 (UTC)
-: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL4piuUn5nc Here ya go.] --mezimm [[Special:Contributions/172.68.35.117|172.68.35.117]] 17:54, 21 February 2025 (UTC)
+: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL4piuUn5nc Here ya go.] [[User:MeZimm|MeZimm]] ([[User talk: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? [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 17:38, 21 February 2025 (UTC)
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 : Related reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_(cipher) [[Special:Contributions/172.68.26.229|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 [[Special:Contributions/172.68.3.112|172.68.3.112]] 17:50, 21 February 2025 (UTC)
+A̦ÅÄ ẠÂÅȀ, A̓A̅ ȀÅÄĂA̱ ȦÁ ÂÁAĂĂA̦ A̮ÄÂÂA̦ A̓A̮ ȀÁ A̱A̓A̱ A ÀÁÂÃA̓ÅÂ ÅA̮ A̅A̰A̓Ã A̭AA̋Á A̓Â A̅A̰A̓Ã ÃA̅A̦ĂÁ! [[User:MeZimm|MeZimm]] ([[User talk:MeZimm|talk]]) 17:50, 21 February 2025 (UTC)
 :The Wikifunction [https://www.wikifunctions.org/view/en/Z22728 from Scream] returns "YOU KNOW, JA̅ WOULD BE NEALLY FUNNY JF WE DJD A VENSJON OF A̅HJS A̭AGE JN A̅HJS SA̅YLE!". Hmmm... [[User:Mwarren|Mwarren]] ([[User talk: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 [https://www.lexilogos.com/keyboard/diacritics.htm this page] and best-guess attempts to interpret what Randall's handwritten diacritics were meant to correspond to. --mezimm [[Special:Contributions/172.68.1.158|172.68.1.158]] 19:55, 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 [https://www.lexilogos.com/keyboard/diacritics.htm this page] and best-guess attempts to interpret what Randall's handwritten diacritics were meant to correspond to. [[User:MeZimm|MeZimm]] ([[User talk: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 [[Special:Contributions/172.68.3.67|172.68.3.67]] 20:01, 21 February 2025 (UTC)
+::: updated version: "A̦ÅÄ ẠÂÅȀ, ẢĀ ȀÅÄĂA̱ ȦÁ ȂÁAĂĂA̦ A̮ÄÂÂA̦ ẢA̮ ȀÁ A̱ẢA̱ A ÀÁȂÃẢÅÂ ÅA̮ ĀA̰ẢÃ A̯AA̋Á ẢÂ ĀA̰ẢÃ ÃĀA̦ĂÁ!" [[User:MeZimm|MeZimm]] ([[User talk:MeZimm|talk]]) 20:01, 21 February 2025 (UTC)
 On Wikifunctions, we implemented the two functions [https://www.wikifunctions.org/view/en/Z22725 to Scream Cipher] and [https://www.wikifunctions.org/view/en/Z22728 from Scream Cipher] --[[Special:Contributions/172.70.38.235|172.70.38.235]] 18:09, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

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	:It looks like the wikifunctions are using a different character for "D" than [https://scream-cipher.netlify.app/ the github project] linked in the explanation. Seems as though one's using U+0331 and the other's using 0332. [[User:Schiffy\|<font color="000999">Schiffy</font>]] ([[User_talk:Schiffy\|<font color="FF6600">Speak to me</font>]]\|[[Special:Contributions/Schiffy\|<font color="FF0000">What I've done</font>]]) 20:32, 21 February 2025 (UTC)		:It looks like the wikifunctions are using a different character for "D" than [https://scream-cipher.netlify.app/ the github project] linked in the explanation. Seems as though one's using U+0331 and the other's using 0332. [[User:Schiffy\|<font color="000999">Schiffy</font>]] ([[User_talk:Schiffy\|<font color="FF6600">Speak to me</font>]]\|[[Special:Contributions/Schiffy\|<font color="FF0000">What I've done</font>]]) 20:32, 21 February 2025 (UTC)
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		+	::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.[[Special:Contributions/172.71.160.94\|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). [[Special:Contributions/172.71.126.50\|172.71.126.50]] 18:10, 21 February 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). [[Special:Contributions/172.71.126.50\|172.71.126.50]] 18:10, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

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

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	What's the American alphabet? AnAussie [[Special:Contributions/172.68.64.213\|172.68.64.213]] 01:16, 22 February 2025 (UTC)		What's the American alphabet? AnAussie [[Special:Contributions/172.68.64.213\|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. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.62.105\|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) [[Special:Contributions/172.71.158.19\|172.71.158.19]] 02:57, 22 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) [[Special:Contributions/172.71.158.19\|172.71.158.19]] 02:57, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

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 If you accept the definition that a 'word' is a bunch of letters, surrounded by a gap, then 'xnopyt', AAAAAAJJJJJJJ [[Special:Contributions/172.68.71.111|172.68.71.111]] 15:40, 24 February 2025 (UTC)
 == Trivia ==
 The Trivia "Notes" section reads like pareidolia. -- [[User:Rei|Rei]] ([[User talk:Rei|talk]]) 13:16, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

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	Choose the base letters arbitrarily other than ‘A’ and we get {{w\|furigana}}. [[User:物灵\|物灵]] ([[User talk:物灵\|talk]]) 05:38, 24 February 2025 (UTC)		Choose the base letters arbitrarily other than ‘A’ and we get {{w\|furigana}}. [[User:物灵\|物灵]] ([[User talk:物灵\|talk]]) 05:38, 24 February 2025 (UTC)
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		+	The Trivia "Notes" section reads like pareidolia. -- [[User:Rei\|Rei]] ([[User talk:Rei\|talk]]) 13:16, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

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 Likely a pun on "stream cipher"
-- Related reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_(cipher) [[Special:Contributions/172.68.26.229|172.68.26.229]] 17:46, 21 February 2025 (UTC)
+: Related reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_(cipher) [[Special:Contributions/172.68.26.229|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 [[Special:Contributions/172.68.3.112|172.68.3.112]] 17:50, 21 February 2025 (UTC)
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 :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 <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki> 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... ;) [[Special:Contributions/172.71.178.161|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? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.105|162.158.159.105]] 20:14, 21 February 2025 (UTC)
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 ::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! [[Special:Contributions/172.68.205.178|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/ {{unsigned|Drkaii|18:06, 22 February 2025}}
 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.) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.90.46|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? [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.88|141.101.99.88]] 10:33, 23 February 2025 (UTC)
 Choose the base letters arbitrarily other than ‘A’ and we get {{w|furigana}}. [[User:物灵|物灵]] ([[User talk:物灵|talk]]) 05:38, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

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 I give it a week for people to make a translator to and from this cipher. [[User:CalibansCreations|'''<span style="color:#ff0000;">Caliban</span>''']] ([[User talk:CalibansCreations|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 :-) . [[User:Mwarren|Mwarren]] ([[User talk:Mwarren|talk]]) 19:04, 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 :-) . [[User:Mwarren|Mwarren]] ([[User talk:Mwarren|talk]]) 19:04, 21 February 2025 (UTC)
 Numbers should be variations of h and/or g. [[User:Andyd273|Andyd273]] ([[User talk:Andyd273|talk]]) 18:32, 21 February 2025 (UTC)#