It transliterated to something like, If you can read this youre a nerd.

Many examples in comic books, some in video games, a few in sci-fi movies and TV.

Since this requires a visual (and lends itself particularly well to comic books), it can be considered a form of Painting the Medium.

Enough to look like an exotically unfamiliar font at a glance until you take a closer look.

Given that they were people-eating Nazi invaders, that would fit under Unfortunate Implications.

It has since been used by other aliens, where it often turns out to be gibberish or actually say Alien Speech.

This was sometimes used in the main DCU as well, although it wasnt consistant.

Prosperos walls of text in his introductory chapter starts off with If you can read this and goes on with Monty Python quotes, a recipe, etc, to avoid heavy spoilers, but in the rest of the series, his utterings are often hilarious.

Originally, decoder cards were given out by cast members to help guests fight boredom in what was potentially a 5 hour wait.

Similarly, all signs near Stitchs Great Escape are written like this.

The idea is that while the audience hears their own language, the characters are actually speaking a galactically common tongue referred to as Basic in the expanded media.

This is in fact part of the books Translation Convention - Tolkien pretends that the whole book is really translated from an original Westron manuscript by himself, and includes the inscriptions.

Herein is set forth the history of the War of the Ring and the return of the King as seen by the Hobbits.

Acceptable Break From Reality considering it was designed for children and their parents.

However the written text is English transliterated into the Greek alphabet, letting the readers know what the characters are saying.

Producers avoid giving written alien languages proper alphabets, because it gives them greater freedom to arrange the pictograms in a suitably alien format.

Although interestingly, this would make the words in the Unown Pokdex Gratuitous English in the original Japanese.

The only place it was used was in a puzzle to unlock some of the legendary Pokmon.

By The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess, it was merely stylised Latin letters in English (though the mirroring used undermined this).

If you read it carefully, the words even look quite like English words.

It resembles Greek, and also uses astrological symbols and such.

Players who didnt want to translate the script could overwrite the graphics file for the runic text with the Latin variant, at the expense of immersion.

Translating the incantations reveals them to be appropriate lines from 20th century sources.

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