Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes How well do you know Interlac?

I think the 80s costumes mean everyone here can recognize at least the E and P letters, but for me everything else is "yes that's definitely Interlac for... something". I don't think I can even read "Legion of Super-Heroes" written in Interlac.

By "I can read most of it" I mean you can get a general idea of what the characters are talking about, and by "I can read some of it" I mean you can read a couple words here and there.

How well do you know Interlac? single choice
	I can read it without looking up the letters
	I can read most of it
	I can read some of it
	I recognize most letters
	I recognize some letters
	I recognize it's Interlac but I'm completely lost
	Interlac?
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I've more or less memorized the letters, but the numbers always throw me off. I can never remember what the triangle or the triangle with one dot means.

I used to be able to read it pretty easily, but it's pretty slow-going these days.

There was a time I could read it. But generally if I was binge reading them. These days I'd need the handy Interlac guide that was published in one of the issues, just to have handy.

When I try to translate recent issues I always start just going from memory but usually resort to an image table to continue. Still I can remember most letters without the guide, although a few still trick me. It also depends how well they are drawn. "h" and "l" are very similar and often have to be distinguished by context, and sometimes "c" and "e" have the same problem.

I have to look up the numbers which are weird. Sometimes I think they are a bit Base 4 but its inconsistent. Probably more like Roman numerals but even then different. If 1 is a little circle, and 4 is a little left triangle, that works up to 4 but 5 should be a triangle and one circle which is 6, and 6 should look like 7 - so it doesn't work. And that 0! That's not 0, its 10!

Here's the real trick though. Can you translate from English into Interlac without a guide? I find that tougher because you have to remember all the letter shapes. Much easier to go the other way.

I can read it, but it can take awhile - I still have to think for enough of the letters that it's a chore if there's a lot of it. I gave up on Bendis's giant blocks of Interlac because it was so uneasy on the eyes.

I used to dream journal in interlac, so I could write it down from memory, but not sure if I can at this point without a refresher.

I usually have to take a cursory glance at a guide to jog my memory, but I can read most of it. Sometimes it helps me to write out the translation, just because my brain gets easily jumbled.

Some of the letters are pretty easily recognisable, but I definitely wouldn't be able to read a whole text generally without sitting down and writing it out and maybe doing a process of elimination to figure out words