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by therealfiona 410 days ago
Looks like you can get high on the leader board if you're not limited to English. (I forgot what style our alphabet is derived from, I cannot remember the word...)

But yeah, leaderboard is broken.

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I believe they're collectively referred to as Latin languages, despite the Germanic branch that led to English. I often think of those languages as "in contrast to" pictographic languages <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_writing_systems#Proto-...> although Wikipedia distinguishes them from ideographic ones and that's too hair-splittery for me to comment upon :-(