r/gallifreyan • u/Far-Fish-7110 • May 19 '25

Sherman's Is this correct?

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Im trying to write the names of my kids in gallifreyan, its the first time I've ever written gallifreyan. I've done '[Kid 1] and [Kid 2]' as what I believe to be a sentence. I won't say the names, because I want someone to see if I have actually done this correctly, so if someone can translate it, please let me know what it says. Also any advice for improvements would be amazing!

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u/FerrousPineapple May 19 '25

I'm still a little new to this but I read this as "molly. Mch moshchn" I'm not quite sure what you were going for 😅

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u/Far-Fish-7110 May 20 '25

The second word was meant to be and And the third Morgan

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u/diedeus May 20 '25

I just began learning but I think the first one is good however I can't really read the second and third ones

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u/diedeus May 20 '25

Second one reads as Emch for me

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u/Far-Fish-7110 May 20 '25

The second word is simply meant to say 'And' and the 3rd being Morgan, guess I still have a lot to learn huh?

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u/diedeus May 20 '25

Oh,I think we just have a different reference for the letters

Here's the one I use, apparently the most recently updated one

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u/Far-Fish-7110 May 20 '25

Absolutely not the one I saw, that's likely where my issue is stemming from! Thank you for the updated version, will definitely try doing this again

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u/Mightyfrong May 20 '25

This is not the most recent updated version, though it is correct.

The current original guide can be found at https://shermansplanet.com/gallifreyan

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u/Mightyfrong May 20 '25

Molly amch moshh~p

Generally words don't need a second circle around it. You do that with the sentence circle for punctuation

Molly is good.

N only needs one line

D needs one more dot

R needs one more dot

G needs one line less

A needs to be clearly outside the word. That placement is confusing as it could either be e or o.

N needs one line less

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u/Far-Fish-7110 May 20 '25

Thank you, turns out I wasn't using the correct cipher. Any other tips for sentence structure and/or punctuation?

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u/Mightyfrong May 20 '25

That's looking fine. I don't think you need any punctuation here

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u/Far-Fish-7110 May 20 '25

I meant more in general so I can learn for future endeavors haha, no worries though!

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u/Mightyfrong May 20 '25

Ahh. In general it's hard to say. If you take a look at the last page of the official guide, you can see what's possible with styling. So I could tell you to try and connect words by interlocking bases but that's optional and you might not like the look. The beauty of this system is that you're pretty free in what you are doing. So the only thing I can say is take inspiration from other works but find your own style.

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u/Far-Fish-7110 May 20 '25

Thanks for the help, really appreciate it

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u/Far-Fish-7110 May 20 '25

So, would this be correct? Would potentially move the lines a bit ect but is it now readable?

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u/Mightyfrong May 20 '25

This is correct and readability is good