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Coded English With Sarus; hiding Sarus in ordinary text
Topic Started: Nov 18 2004, 05:29 PM (2,327 Views)
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Something that I've come across, quite by accident while learning this language is the way that certain Sarus words may be memorized due to their similarity with certain English words. This has led me to discover a way of speaking or writing a Sarus message and disguise it as English, and I think it rocks :D

The following method allows us to say something which at first seems to be ordinary English words (which may or may not make sense as a sentence), but really contains a hidden Sarus meaning. Here's how it works:

Each Sarus word is represented by an English word which contains the same consonants.. to extract a Sarus message from English words, you simply remove the vowels and non-Sarus consonants:

daft = dft
dust = dst
mafia = mf
lame = lm
told = tld
and so on..

Therefore the following sentence of English words means, "I will come to you at midnight" may be decoded quite easily:

door mum lame if dim of daydry someday

you'll notice that if you remove all the non-Sarus letters, you have a perfect Sarus message.

dr mm lm f dm f ddr smd

Here is the same message encoded with a different set of Sarus words :D

dark maim looming fig adam fang adder ashamed

dark - - remove a and k (non-Sarus letters) to get dr
maim - - remove a and i to get mm
looming - - remove oo and ing to get lm
etc..

:2: :4::3: :1::3: :6::7: :1::4: !


Getting used to thinking of the Sarus words in this way is very helpful when learning.. using an English word to help you memorize will really move things along for you.

I know I'll never forget the meaning of lls (meaning 'backwards'), cos the English word I use to remember it is "lollies". Now whenever I think of the word 'backwards', I imagine someone walking backwards throwing lollies on the ground saying, "lollies, lollies, lollies" :bing:

Note here that if you use the word lollies as your reference for lls, you should be aware that there are 3 L's in lollies, and only 2 in lls.. Your reference word should be a reminder, rather than a spelling cue.

One last thing to bear in mind when learning Sarus, the more ridiculous your imagined scenario, the better it will stick in your mind (and the easier it will be to remember).

For example, if you want to remember the Sarus word for 'ceiling' (mms) you might like to imagine a whole bunch of mums (people's mothers) glued to the ceiling, looking down at you. This is something that you'd never forget if you ever saw it.. and you'll find that if you visualize each of these ridiculous situations, you'll never forget them either :)
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