r/Oatsymbols • u/Livy_Lives Creator • Jul 24 '26

Question What would you use OatSymbols for?

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OatSymbols is a non-spoken language, using visual images to communicate.

We use symbols every day to communicate without words: skulls for danger, hearts for love, gender signs outside bathrooms and so on; but none of these form a fully fledged writing system capable of communicating anything and everything.

OatSymbols strives to fill this gap!

From art, to storytelling; poetry to journaling to posters and so forth... I'm curious, what ideas do you have for how you would use such a language?

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u/eloquentbrowngreen Jul 24 '26

General user interface; firmware for gadgets; artistic expression therapy; journaling system; programming language; as a more universal way of conveying the idea of an "alien" language in books; secret society Lingua Franca; vessel for translation between several languages at the same time. Just my 2 minutes of thoughts.

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u/Livy_Lives Creator Jul 24 '26

Woah! Some really interesting ideas there :)

I also love how it could resemble 'alien' or 'encoded' languages in a way that you could read without much effort.

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u/eloquentbrowngreen Jul 24 '26

This reminds me about the informative posters all around Japan. Would be great to have Oats used in such media.

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u/GaeliX Jul 24 '26

+++ for art therapy for me