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AAAAAA A ÃA̧AȂA̦ ǍÅÂÃĀÁȂ AAAAAAA!

https://explainxkcd.com/3054/

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[–] arudesalad@sh.itjust.works 49 points 1 day ago (2 children)

In the comic, Cueball texts the cipher for "HELLO", and Megan responds with the cipher for "HI"

The title text deciphers to "AAAAAA A SCARY MONSTER AAAAAA!"

[–] hex@programming.dev 4 points 15 hours ago

Bleh on my lemmy app it looked like the Y instead of C. I was like wtf is SYARY. I hadn't started doing the next part until I saw this.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago
[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 12 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

In a more simplified version, you could omit the A entirely, and just write the diacritical mark, recreating an alphabet...

[–] dwemthy@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago

Sure, if you don't feel like screaming

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

I want this to become a thing in the Irregular Expressions keyboard.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 9 points 23 hours ago (2 children)
[–] HelloHotel@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

AAAAA AAAA AAAAAA "AAAAAAAAAAA!" A AAA AAA AAAAAAA AAAA. AA AAAAAAA AAAA AAAAAA AA AAAAA. AAA AAAAA AAAAAA AAA AAAA AAAAA

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 23 hours ago

that may have been even more relevant for https://xkcd.com/2957/

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 5 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Somebody write the rust serde library for this