big warning: this is me being a huge ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ nerd over things that don't matter and i'm probably wrong anyway. i'm deathly curious though.

okay, so!! i decided to learn just enough felinese to understand the various graffiti and signs and whatnot. however i'm starting to run into some strange problems, like characters and words that don't exist in the dictionary or are otherwise erroneous. i could be fundamentally misunderstanding certain aspects, but i'd also like to know if i am or not, so here are the things i've run into. tell me if i'm super duper wrong, i wouldn't be surprised.

for one, written 'i' is two vertical lines rather than the one vertical line displayed in the dictionary but i get the feeling that might be a font issue (shift+\ comes up as two different things, depending on your font, but only one of them is identical to the felin 'i'), not necessarily an actual error. still worth mentioning, because holy heck that was confusing.

for another, in the felin wisdom sign[i.gyazo.com], there seems to be a character that doesn't exist, used in a word that isn't listed in the dictionary. it looks like the character for 'L' but with a line through the dots. it comes out like this:

"tla etha mla(?)rl"
("to all ???")

the only other word that starts with 'mla' that i could find in the dictionary was 'mlagri', the word for like, but it doesn't end the same way as the word in the sign, and there are no -rl affixes as far as i'm aware.

the graffiti[i.gyazo.com] that is supposed to convey that "Femine is sweet and charming" is missing the 'e' at the end of 'Femine' (maybe this is intentional?), and the word for 'sweet' being used is the one that refers to literal taste rather than 'be sweet' (although knowing felin this could be intentional too, HEH). it also has an inexplicable lone 'i' at the end of 'sweet', is that an 'and' of some kind? finally, i'm having trouble understanding the last word, 'oene', but i think that might be a signature.

"femin dlaphem i biumhuaw oene"
("Femin(e) sweet <i> charming-like <oene>")

just to toss one more on the pile, the Chelsie-related graffiti[i.gyazo.com], besides the lampshaded error in Chelsie's name, conveys exactly what it's meant to (chelsie/'chelise' is cool), but i don't get 'oee'. is that a signature as well? do some felin have all-vowel names? is it initials? seems pretty similar to the example above.

i'm guessing a lot of this could probably be chalked up to "it's graffiti and people are sloppy" along with me not getting certain nuances, but the wisdom sign and the possible signatures are what i'm really hung up on here. any help i could get understanding this neat language better would be awesome.

sahl!