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[jchutchins]

Trailhead? I'm a "red seal" recipient "True Blood"!!

[thebruce]

heh, I'm actually just watching your video right now and decided to see if it was posted here. Whaddya know? Welcome to UF

Just for completion, other links you've already referred to / discovered

Other recipients:
http://www.yesbutnobutyes.com/archives/2008/05/strange_mail.html
http://cactuspix.blogspot.com/2008/05/something-weird.html


Main game site?
http://chishio.jp/

[jchutchins]

confirmed, re: sites

[Leyton Stone]

The writing on the letter from the yesbutnobutyes page looks a lot like Cuneiform but I was unable to determine any letters which represent those markings...

[Rekidk]

Woah, you're the JC Hutchins? Welcome to UF! It's exciting to see the prolific podcast novelist here!

[Sorry for the OT!]

[amandel]

A comment mentioned on the Strange Mail Blog that the writing might be Sumerian. However,I'd hazard a guess that it is Akkadian Cuneiform.

And an awesome Welcome, jchutchins

[jchutchins]

Did the WHOIS thing for the .jp site.

Email contact: chishio01SPLATgmail.com
Phone: +6469370339
Address: 166-0002 (postal code) 3-43-13 Koenji-kita, Suginami-ku Tokyo

I've sent an email to the address; no reply yet. Tried the phone number locally; non-working number. I'll call the number in Japan when SkypeOut works for me.

[Leyton Stone]

lol yeah I was trying to be nonchalant(sp?) about having JC on uF but meh lol.

And yeah Amandel I already mentioned that those look like Cuneiform letters/text.

[amandel]

Leyton,you must know that I always read each of your posts.

There are various types of cuneiform, each quite different, and you didn't mention any specific one. That's why I compared a few and posted my best guess, Leyton.

[Leyton Stone]

Meanie... I was unaware of that!

But it's a good job you did because evidently it wasn't any of the Cuneiform texts I was looking at!

Thank ya for the clarification!

[Karensa]

Interesting....

Earlier I was checking out strange font for the DL game and spent a lot of time here - great resource -

www.omniglot.com


because it looked familiar. Now, here we go again.

What I found (so far, will keep looking) is that the one JH received looks amazingly similar to this:

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/tagbanwa.htm

or a cross between that and this one:

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/tagalog.htm


one of the others that was received is familiar to this one:

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/phoenician.htm

and the cuniform looks like it's taken from the above one mentioned as well as the persian style - letter glyphs from both appear

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/opcuneiform.htm


Unfortunately, the site seems to be bogging down on me and pages aren't loading...maybe a bunch of others on there looking.

I have no idea what any of it says, but I saw these and remembered seeing very similar ones on the site from earlier, thought I'd pass it along.

[demonpunk]

don't know if it helps but check out this site
www.ancientscripts.com/ugaritic.html

seems the fourth letter on chishio.jp uses this key.
but translation doesn't make sense.
maybe im missin sumthin?

[amandel]

Meanie,naha and not too clevah on the reaserching either. Spinning head now from all the extinct scripts.

**whispering that she does enjoy teasing good-natured Leyton abit**

[jchutchins]

red letters?

[Karensa]

Wild hair shot in the dark time...

On a whim, I yahooed KTBK and turns out it's some radio or tv station in Japan. I don't have Japanese fonts installed on this machine so all I get are squares but hey, never know...maybe you got hit up by a radio/tv station promo?

www.ktbk.co.jp

Closer to home there is also


http://www.ktbk.com/

and others, mostly Japanese though...

but for the record, the way I interpreted the seal symbol was just tb - that those aren't Ks one way or the other, just decorative type.

Question for JC - have you had any association with the Japanese on anything you've done? Maybe there's a link that direction?