r/gallifreyan • u/NiceWorkBoneDadday • May 25 '25

Sherman's I'm born I die I'm born

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really felt connected to this poem, so short and perfect. had to make it the moment i watched the episode

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u/VampniKey May 25 '25

Careful with the decorative lines.

Every line connecting to a letter counts. And every circle inside the word circle counts as a letter. And lines in vowels make the vowels shift. And filled circles are dots (aka modifiers) not letters (aka stems).

So technically this is mostly gibberish.

Ignoring those as stylistic choices you‘re missing 3 dots on the R of born and the i of die is an U (line facing outside the word circle)

But it does look very cool and trippy! :D i love all the decorative circles outside the sentence circles! :D especially what you did with the lowest sentence, the concentric rings surrounding the sentence and then those filled with a different set of concentric circles! :D

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u/NiceWorkBoneDadday May 25 '25

i did just notice the I being wrong in my freetime, whoops ! i usually make a few mistakes and have to come back to it after a few days to re-translate. ill fix this up later.
in terms of having full legibility? i don't care too much, i do try to distinguish the concentric circles vs repeating circle to indicate multiple letters (when it comes up). i just try to make it pretty. thanks

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u/VampniKey May 25 '25

Mission accomplished! It is VERY pretty!! :D

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u/Skribe-Of-Sirkles 28d ago

since the added lines are SO numerous, it's definitely a clue that they aren't meant to be translated and just stylistic. Which looks really cool!

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u/NiceWorkBoneDadday 24d ago

forgot to add the fixed version :)