Can you decode this?

Hello ATSers,

A friend sent me a link to this image:



This was apparently found in a wall by the new owners of a house.

Here is the site I was directed to:

www.reddit.com...

full of useless random comments. I figured there are some here that can probably do better.

reply to post by Rosinitiate


There was a comment I saw that seemed plausible. That is was perhaps a diploma of sorts and maybe from the far east?

You have just earned your jihad badge

gold seal

allah akbar

reply to post by Rosinitiate


College diplomas are a little more extravagant then that. Atleast here they are. Could be someone's diploma from a middle/high school though I could see that. Reddit gives me a headache trying to read through all those immature posts. Ill be watching here to see what someone can come up with.

Thanks for bringing this here. It's interesting.

Originally posted by Isittruee
reply to post by Rosinitiate

 

College diplomas are a little more extravagant then that. Atleast here they are. Could be someone's diploma from a middle/high school though I could see that. Reddit gives me a headache trying to read through all those immature posts. Ill be watching here to see what someone can come up with.

Thanks for bringing this here. It's interesting.

edit on 23-6-2013 by Isittruee because: Punc.

I would agree with that. In fact, I'd see it more of an award or honorary thing. But what language or code is it in? And why?

reply to post by Rosinitiate


No idea. I'm almost positive that the bottom is of course a signature and bottom right is initials. I'm not educated enough on this subject to say if that is a real language it would have a free flowing script like that with such detailed letters. I see a lot of emoticons toooo... . :/. So ill go with code.

ATS smiley took my emoticon.. : ).

reply to post by Rosinitiate


Maybe ancient gaelic ...the dots on the strokes...this is a hard one.

Tried to google goggle it.It'll scan half of it , but quits on the second half. thought I could get some refererences for it...no dice all I got was shoes on a floor and a cat. Gotta love google!

Guy that posted that needs to post a better picture.( Not you OP) It's blurry in places.

Also looks like that joker man font from word. That font in another language?

It's not like any language I've ever seen. Seems like a made up language to me because it has stupid letters like the capital E looking letter with 4 dots. Why would you bother to have those 4 useless dots, the only reason is to make it look alien imo.

reply to post by CKBURNS


What if you scanned just the signiture?

Maybe someone famous!

Originally posted by Isittruee
Guy that posted that needs to post a better picture.( Not you OP) It's blurry in places.

I think the color inverted helps:

If you look at this one word:



You can see there are only two letters and both get repeated.

If we assume the second letter is an A E I O or U

That leaves us with:

Baba, dada, haha, jaja, lala, etc

Wewe, pepe, lele, etc,

didi, gigi, etc

dodo

reply to post by Rosinitiate


Searched that sig and came up with this.

reply to post by Isittruee


I can't access your link.

reply to post by Rosinitiate


There ya go.

So that language with some fancy font?



More searching tell me that's Indian. Sorry told you I wasn't too educated in this so just taking guesses of my searching.

Here. Look at the similarities. Woot. Think its some fancy font.






Suggestions anyone?


Of course I will bow my head in shame when I find out I'm completely wrong

reply to post by Rosinitiate


Cut that ribbon out for me if you will. Curious to see if that will get any hits and I have no idea how to edit a photo.

I'm going to guess, just a guess, that this is a Feng Shui certificate that certifies that the house (since it was found inside a wall) has all its Feng and Shui in proper balance.

... or something quite similar to Feng Shui where a spiritual consultant comes to a home to certify that whatever superstition or kink the home owner is concerned about is covered.

"This house is ghost-free", or "This house will be happy", or something like that I expect is the spirit of the certification we see here.
Some people are happy with just some incense and a shrine, while others feel it's more 'official' to have a signed document with a declaration of official whatever-ness.

Just a guess.