[Misc] Can you translate (or decode) this?

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Midget

Amexgemeinschaftsstadionhallebierschluckerinchen
Aug 16, 2015
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I don't think it's Welsh. People did sometimes write postcards in code back then so the postman couldn't read then!

It's not immediately obvious to me and not much content to go on...

Edit: fwiw my guess at the letters is:
T-cuylh hetfee
iitisr sswofe
paeer lbnmo
aotim
 








Fungus

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May 21, 2004
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I don't think it's Welsh. People did sometimes write postcards in code back then so the postman couldn't read then!

It's not immediately obvious to me and not much content to go on...

Edit: fwiw my guess at the letters is:
T-cuylh hetfee
iitisr sswofe
paeer lbnmo
aotim
From “ED”? I thought it was EW, but the second letter seems to match the D in Dunstone, so it could be a relative…
 


Algernon

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Sep 9, 2012
3,191
Newmarket.
It's either a shopping list
Or
a 7-a-side team.

But because I watched the "imitation game" film last week I thought I'd give it a go (how hard can it be) and I held a mirror up to it and Io and behold the last word spells Mitoma (minus the second m).
Pure coincidence?
I think not.
Its a shopping list of players.
Mbuemo and LeTissier are almost in there too.
And Andy Hetfeenthaler.


Get it on Reddit. They'll sort it out.
 






Justice

Dangerous Idiot
Jun 21, 2012
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Born In Shoreham
I think whoever is sending the cards is trying to teach her Welsh slowly by post card. The placement of the words looks more like table form than a letter.
 




Thunder Bolt

Silly old bat
That must be some obscure form of shorthand. I know the farmers up here have an old counting system, maybe they had their own shorthand as well?
Sussex shepherds had their own method of counting too.
 












Cheshire Cat

The most curious thing..
I'm struggling to finish it but I think it's using the first letter of each word, then the second and so on, reading across the line. So: This peace is ...
"This place is about twenty five miles from here"


TCUYLHHETFEE
IITISRSSWVFE
PAEERLBNMO
AOTIM
 






Fungus

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I'm struggling to finish it but I think it's using the first letter of each word, then the second and so on, reading across the line. So: This peace is ...
Brilliant, that’s the key! Thanks!
 




Cheshire Cat

The most curious thing..
Do we know what the "place" is and where is "here2?

Also who's are the initials?
 


Fungus

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"This place is about twenty five miles from here"


TCUYLHHETFEE
IITISRSSWVFE
PAEERLBNMO
AOTIM
That’s actually a really disappointing message! I was hoping for something a bit spicier. 🤣 Great work though, I would never have got there! Looking at the family tree, I suspect it’s from her younger cousin, with the initials ED. Case closed.
 


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