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Ancient Web: Pilish Turns the Digits of Pi Into English Prose

The Cadaeic Pilish page explains a constrained-writing system where successive word lengths encode the digits of pi, including rules for zeros, long words, punctuation, and extended compositions that hide mathematics inside readable prose.

Ancient Web: Zompist Tried to Prove English Spelling Has Rules

Mark Rosenfelder's 2000 Zompist spelling page treats English orthography as a system that can be analyzed, modeled, and partly predicted instead of dismissed as random chaos.

Ancient Web: Zhongwen.com Turned 4,000 Chinese Characters into Genealogy Trees

Rick Harbaugh's Zhongwen.com combines Chinese-name transliteration with a much deeper project: computer-generated character genealogies connecting more than 4,000 Chinese characters through shared components and traditional etymologies.