History Main / Wingdinglish

* "The Impossible Planet" in ''DoctorWho''.

* ''{{Homestuck}}'' trolls language was a reversed [[TheElderScrolls Daedric font]].

** ''CommanderKeen'' has SGA, the 'Standard Galactic Alphabet' based on 'alienizing' the latin alphabet. Complete cyphers were given in two levels.

* The text in the Unown Ruins in the ''[=~Pokémon~=]'' games falls under this.

* For alien letters, ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' used English characters written forward then overlaid with the same English word written backwards and upside-down. Enough to look like an exotically unfamiliar font at a glance until you take a closer look.

* The Disneyland Imagineers must love this one, because I just thought of another example from the park: the photo kiosk and nearby restrooms at the exit of Space Mountain have signs in English and an "alien language," but if you compare the two, the latter is obviously just a substitution cipher for the former.
** This is used throughout Tomorrowland at the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World. All signs near "Stitch's Great Escape" are written like this.

* James Gurney's {{Dinotopia}} picture books feature a dinosaur alphabet produced by bipedal dinos placing their feet in different directions; watching a swiftly writing scribe is like watching a dance. "A" looks like an arrow pointing down because it's a dinosaur's footprint with the heel at the bottom. They progress in a binary manner from there.

* Darth Nihilus' holocron in ''StarWarsLegacy'' speaks that way, representing the incomprehensible language of hisses that he speaks in ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic II''.

* The SelfDestructMechanism that the ''{{Predator}}'' sets off at the end of the first movie (and earlier in the second) has a digital countdown in alien numbers.

* ''Aquaria'' does this; clues are given on the opening screen, where the 'runic' alphabet is slowly replaced by the Latin one. Players who didn't want to translate the script could overwrite the graphics file for the runic text with the Latin variant, at the expense of immersion.

** In The Sims 2, TV programs and commercials clearly use the Wingdings font.
* The Mr. Saturns in {{EarthBound}} use this, along with several verbal tics.
* FinalFantasyX uses an extremely stylized script in some places, such as the screen when choosing a destination for the [[GlobalAirship Fahrenheit]].
** CommanderKeen has SGA, the 'Standard Galactic Alphabet' based on 'alienizing' the latin alphabet. Complete cyphers were given in two levels.

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* The text in the Unown Ruins in the ''[=~Pokémon~=]'' games falls under this...
** Technically, the Unown are just stylished versions of the English alphabet, and later punctuation. Although interestingly, this would make the words in the Unown Pokédex GratuitousEnglish in the original Japanese.
** The GBA generations of ''Pokémon (Ruby/Sapphire)'' used braille for this (the manual had the translations in it). The only place it was used was in a puzzle to unlock some of the legendary ''Pokémon''.

* Aren't there a few places in ''TheLordOfTheRings'' where inscriptions in Cirth or Tengwar actually turn out to be English if you transliterate them?
** Certainly the map in ''TheHobbit'', but that uses real Anglo-Saxon runes, not Cirth.
** Look no further than the ''[[TheLordOfTheRings LotR]]'' title page. The Cirth at the top reads "The Lord of the Rings, translated from the red book" while the tengwar at the bottom continues, "of Westmarch by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. Herein is set forth the history of the War of the Ring and the return of the King as seen by the Hobbits."

* In ''{{Quake 4}}'', the Strogg control panels are marked with odd looking letters that later on in the game [[spoiler:(after the progagonist is Stroggified)]] look like almost normal English alphabet.

* In {{PS238}}, alien tongues are represented in strange font, are readable English when deciphered. Prospero's walls of text in his introductory chapter starts off with "If you can read this" and goes on with MontyPython quotes, a recipe, etc, to avoid heavy spoilers, but in the rest of the series, his utterings are often hilarious.

* In {{PS238}}, Alien tongues are represented in strange font, are readable English when deciphered. Prospero's walls of text in his introductory chapters starts off with "If you can read this" and goes on with MontyPython quotes, a recipe, etc, to avoid heavy spoilers, but in the rest of the series, his utterings are often hilarious.

* ...Does [[EarthBound Saturn Speak]] count...?

* A few of the ''Fightin Fantasy'' books have puzzles that involve working out which symbols represent which letters to read secret codes.