Dear Greek people who have learned Greek Alphabet in elementary school, are you able to read this text as if it’s in Latin Alphabet? Or your brain just goes into Greek mode and mixes everything up

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  2. This is terrible for Greek people. It looks terrible and it reads terrible.
    It’s like you’re having a stroke. Literally the stuff of nightmares.

    There’s a subreddit just for stuff like this called r/grssk

  4. To cite famous physicist Wolfgang Pauli this is so bad you couldn’t even call it wrong. It’s utter gibberish in both Greek and Latin characters and should be punished by simultaneous crucifiction on latin and greek crosses.

  6. “Greek Letters Font Generator” I suppose it says. The third word took me like 3 mins to figure out and I did only out of context with the last one, which also took a couple. To answer your question, this looks like leetspeak to us is the same way as trying to read “l33t c0d3”, “n008”, etc., using character replacements in ways that play on the similarity of their glyphs via reflection or other resemblance.

  8. Μπορεί να μου πει κάποιος για ποιο λόγο γράφουν αγγλικά με αυτούς τους περίεργους χαρακτήρες που υποτίθεται ότι είναι αρχαία ελληνικά ;; Κάτι τέτοιο έκανε και η Nike και έφαγε κράξιμο

  12. This isn’t what you advertise though. Why would latin E be Σ in greek alphabet? Why would the latin N be Π in Greek? This is just gibberish with no logic.

  14. If the story of the permanent death of hope, health, and happiness in the world were to be published, it would be printed in this font.

  15. What kind of bs is this?

    This is not English, nor Latin nor Greek. This is letter vomit.

    I **know** it says “GREEK LETTERS [unintelligible] GENERATOR”, but I’m sorry, it makes zero sense.

    Σ is the letter S, but you use it for E
    Π is the letter P, but you use it as N (?!)
    Θ is the sound “th” (as in THeology), but you use it as an O (?!?!)

    What’s ΓΘΠΤ supposed to mean? It reads as “GONT”

  17. “Dear Greek people, I want to act smart about being ignorant of everything I’m using here. Will you roll over and let me feel like I did something here? ”

    Short answer: no.

  23. It reads like ”GRSSK LSTTSRS WTHPT GSPSRLTTHR”.
    I hate it when they use ‘Σ’ (sigma) instead of the letter E. We too have a letter E, Y U NO like it?

  24. I hate this so much… It used to be hard to read them, because at first I expected substitutions to still use letters that make the same sound, but I’ve now gotten used to the horror of visual substitutions.

    In actual Greek those sequences are mostly only consonants and are unpronounceable. They are immediately recognizable as not being words, like seeing the result of someone typing with their forehead.

    So my brain recognizes them as visual substitutions and does not try to read them by sound. That said, the word I read is not necessarily the one intended, since the letter correspondence is often so distorted that different interpretations can be equally plausible. I read “font generator” as “goat seperator”. And yes it is misspelled english, but people writing in alphabet salad tend not to be the most educated in matters of language, so it was plausible to me.

    Occasionally, rarely, an abuse of the Greek alphabet like this will result in something that has a balance of consonants and vowels that is pronounceable and looks like it could be a word. Then it can be a struggle.

  29. As a Greek graphic designer I’m currently holding myself back from committing a horrible crime. WHO MADE THIS?! I just… I JUST wanna TALK.

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