My Boy, The Engineer, who has worked in transport all his life, has internalised the NATO alphabet [whc prev] to ensure better comms over crackly, lossy, phone-line. That prevlink also hat-tips Clapham & Dwyer's Surrealist Alphabet [1936]: A for 'orses; B for mutton; C for th' Highlanders, D for ential . . . Also relevant acknowledgment of l33t-speak [prev]
Meanwhile over on MeFi, someone was seeking advice help hints for deliberately obfuscating {The Man | search engines | algorithms}. The long tail of the internet can be a problem for seekers-of-public-office. Even if you deleted your {drunken | catty | racist} tweets, it has probably been snagged and archived elsewhere for {ill-wishers | neighbours | journalists} to pick up and beat you with: 👁Jim Gavin👁. What we all could do with is a font / script which is readily readable by humans but won't be parsed into meaningful Ambonese Bodo Catalan Dogon English Farsi. My contribution to the MeFi debate:5° 👁 ◎♄λ⑂ ωᴙ¡✞ε |~ ᴙəβ∪ſ
set me thinking about gussying up a complete alphabet where each of the Ascii/unicode representations of the 26 letters of the English alphabet is replaced by another symbol.
| α ∀ | ſ | λ ∖ £ | Θ | ▼ |
| Б | Γ | Ш | ᴙ | ω |
| © ☾ < | ♄ | ~ ♫ И ∩ | 5 ∫ $ | χ × |
| δ Δ | ¡ 👁 | | 0 ◎ ☉ ° | ✞ ナ ↑ | ⑂ |
| ə ≡ 3 | |< | π | ∪ | Z |
No, you're welcome. Please feel free to use this idea in future. Like the sped arrow, none of your past expletives can be recalled, let alone erased. But we can all be more circumspect from now on.
Note: this is obvs a pain in ye hoop for you, or me, to implement. Cutting and pasting each letter is enough effort to ensure only the most telegraphic comms. DCODE.FR has your back for seamless translation to/from Braille Morse 1337 ogham and dozens of other options. I used it to generate the 6 x 4 block message [above L] as a maritime signal, for example. That site offers a "symbol font" whc is similar in conceit to my idea

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