Here is the text from The Observer's notebook. The text is shown twice, before and after the waitress asks about it, and it is different the second time we see it (new page?). The second time is also upside down, so I have flipped the picture. Anyone speak Wingding?
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Interesting, I'll try to encode it. [META]Ironically, the second screencap looks for me like show designer carefully wrote the signs in the notebook, and the Observer actor tried to continue the writings, and ended in the nonsense scribblings. So we have to translate perhaps only the first half of the text.[META]
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I noticed that any of the symbols repeats in the writings. Which is almost imposible in any languages.
has any one tryed transposing the pages.. I thing this was used in the davinci code if i remember correctly, what it was is they litterally wrote back-wards so that if you flipped it over and looked at it against a light you could read it..
They don't look like english letters and nothing repeats, definitely not any human language.
Come on, a little more thought, friends. :) The symbols don't necessarily have to represent letters: they could be words, and a weird shorthand at that. Anyone here no how to read shorthand? lol
It might be shorthand. The question is which kind of shorthand? Here's background info on shorthand systems.
http://www.alysion.org/handy/althandwriting.htm
http://www.alysion.org/handy/handywrite.htm
it looks like this kind handwrite.
Maybe...it's hard to tell. I have no idea.
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Anybody notice that he was writing right to left as opposed to the norm of left to right?
This looks to be a combination of mostly Japanese Hiragana written right to left and something else.
OK, people, to prevent our Japanese analyse of the writing I wrote here all the signs, that are from Japanese writing systems. And after I did that I see now, it isn't Japanese at all.
But here are the Japanese characters I could find in the notes:
http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee240/kosmopol/note-1.jpg
http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee240/kosmopol/note-2.jpg
good job
Thanx :-)
I'm working on the writings now
At least two of the symbols are extended math symbols. Specifically the equal sign with a dot above and below and the double crossed line.
I found a few of the symbols, slightly correspond to greek symbols: i found the observers notes the following : delta, zeta, iotam sigma (it was upsiade down/ sideways) and tau ( upside down)
i shifted by pic 270 degrees from the original, and i did see the odd similarity between that symbol that looks lyk the equal symbol with dots above and below the lines
well, to me it looks like it could be some kind of encoding? Possibly a phrase was encoded, and these are the symbols from the output... I'll see if I can find all of the symbols in an ASCII or Unicode table, you reckon?
this doesnt have much relevance to this but when they jumped to commercials the 2nd or 3rd time in POWER HUNGRY (5th episode) there was a frog, below the frog said fringe will return in 90 seconds. anyone recall that? well in the frog there is the GREEK SYMBOL/ LETTER PHI anyone else pick up on that(the frog which appears in the intro for lyk 3 frames along with a seahorse and a flower)
didnt know which thread to post under so i put it in this one
have any of you heard the technical term for this writing called gobbledygook....
A lot of these look like bad korean letters. Like written by someone who didn't really know korean but was writing them from memory. i'm doing it based on this image: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YPCf8JFgUdI/SOOmwvz5b9I/AAAAAAAAH0M/633w7E-DERQ/s1600-h/observer1.jpg
They're not remotely put together with any semblance of a word but I can pick out at least 20 different characters in there that look korean.
They look a bit like those symbols written on that 'object' in Steven Speilbergs' "Taken".
But, my memory may be deluding me!
I find it interesting that the makers talk of quantum physics where an event doesn't happen unless it is observed and that by observing it, it changes the outcome. Could this be why the writing changed after the waitress asked about it? Or just some bad filming?
One thing's for sure, this proves that the Observer is not a robot. Why would a robot have to write notes on paper?
Here is a good resource for a written language comparison.
http://www.omniglot.com
I think it's Elian script...
http://www.ccelian.com/ElianScriptFull.html
Note the curves and dots. Also, i noticed 'Elian' sounds like 'Alien'.
Since the writers of FRINGE are also the writers of the new STAR TREK movie, could it be the Observers are checking on the progress of human science and technology? To see if we're advanced enough to join the 'Galactic Club'?
In my opinion most of the text written out here is mathematical in nature. I can clearly see numbers and mathematical symbols in the text. I also think there are a number of non-mathematical symbols in the text that look like crude attempts to re-create letters and other common symbols. It's as if the observer isn't alien in nature, but extremely intelligent and, at the same time lacking knowledge of a written language and trying to duplicate one through... observation.
it looks like egyptian hieractic to me
I think any of these could be true. What strikes me as interesting is that mst of the characters/letters/words that have been identified in this thread seem to be dealing with observation in some form: mirror, sideways.
Perception, it seems, is key.
I thought Interlac as soon as I saw it.
Parts of this are Chinese, or at least characters from one of the asian languages that has borrowed characters for Chinese. The first few appear to be so, but its difficult to discern the writing Mostly all I can identify are simply gramatical contextualizers. You can clearly see the "le" character in the third line, its the one that looks like a poorly drawn three. Most of these characters, however, are definately not chinese.
I am rewatching the season one dvds and had a thought. In the inner child, the child who looks like an observer, writes upside down. Maybe the fact that they first show it one way and then flip it upside down is a clue. Hope that made since to someone.
I agree with this:
Blogger ej said...
http://www.alysion.org/handy/handywrite.htm
it looks like this kind handwrite.
If you look closely, the handwrite half matches, but then I think the actor just messed up.
The mere act of observation (the waitress)changes what has been seen.(quantum)there is more than one of everything.
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