#it saves you that whole tedious process of finding a good translator and painstakingly finding and punching in each individual symbol

[skallyeen]

Just taught myself these and thought I'd contribute with the ones I came up with! (some duplicates and weak ones just bc i wanted to get the full alphabet)

✌︎/A - flip the hand upside down and it makes the shape of an A

👌︎/B - didn't have one, so seconding "you will Be okay" (extra effective for helluva boss enjoyers)

If you are (or for the sake of learning this, pretend to be) a cat person: 👍︎ Cats good 👎︎ Dogs bad

☜︎/E - when you make this pose, the fingers pointing against the palm kind of make the shape of an "E"

☞︎/F - points in the same direction as the forks of the F

☝︎/G - what's up G / something about God or maybe Gulls being up in the sky

☟︎/H - down straight to Heck

✋︎/I - think of someone raising their hand like "I do! I know!"

☺︎/J - you smile when you hear a Joke

😐︎/K - "k :|"

☹︎/L - sad loser L

💣︎ Minesweeper

☠︎ Nicotine kills

⚐︎/O - also "paired" with P, it's a more open version (can't really think of anything more)

🏱︎/P - i thought of "flagPole" but that "Pointy flag" is much more useful

✈︎/Q - plane engines are the opposite of Quiet (it's all i got sorry)

☼︎ Rays of sunlight

💧︎/S - water for Swimming (alternatively: a drop is a Small quantity of water)

❄︎/T - Thermal / it snows at low Temperatures

🕆︎/U - compared to the other crosses, the line width here is Universal (all i got)

✞︎/V - i enjoy the "i'm U but stronger". all my brain came up with was "Very"

🕈︎/W - don't have one, i just vaguely associated the increased lines in the cross symbol with the increased lines in a W

✠︎/X - just rotate for an X

✡︎/Y - the star of david is a symbol of judaism, the god of which is Yahweh

☪︎/Z - something something moon and stars -> astrology -> Zodiac

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Bonus: some punctuation (kind of weak but it's nbd because these don't come up much and can often be inferred)

All the pauses (, . -) are mailboxes, and so is /

📪︎ comma has you wait, like this box is waiting for mail

📬︎ period means you've delivered your point, like this box has a delivery waiting to be picked up

📫︎ hyphen connects two related words, like this mailbox has outgoing mail to connect two related people

✍︎ writing a question

✏︎ idk why my brain decided this pencil is being thrown like a projectile but it is. exclamation! (alternatively, the pencil kind of looks like an exclamation point with the shape and definition of the tip / eraser) (this pencil is in a more diagonal orientation in the undertale Wingdings font)

🕿︎ for "(" and ✆︎ for ")" -- think of which comes before/after. Old style dial phone starts the parentheses, and the newer "call button" on a cell phone closes them

📭︎ slash is slanted like the door of the mailbox is slanted open (distinct from the period bc this one has nothing in it/nothing else going on)

✂︎ quotation marks, think of cutting a snippit out of someone speech when you're quoting them

🕯︎ apostrophe "melts" words together like a little flame

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Also because I didn't find this post until after I had already made it, here's my own quizlet set! It has the terms/definitions swapped from prev's, as well as some punctuation marks since you'd likely encounter some if you're reading fully fledged dialogue.

sooo, here are the mnemonic devices i used to learn wingdings like the HUGE FREAKIN NERD that i am. i got it down in like two nights and i can pretty much read full sentences now without too much trouble. (provided they are in all caps, which is how gaster talks, so if it’s undertale related, they should be!) i don’t have devices for every letter, but the idea to try and make them from most letters (and the devices for J, K, L, S, and T) comes from @step-by-step-wd, which is an awesome blog that you should check out!

i didn’t bother with the punctuation or numbers here because to be frank they don’t appear that often and with punctuation it’s pretty easy to guess what it is. (lots of mailboxes; you can experiment outside of basic all caps and see which character is what with this wingdings translator.) if you have mnemonic devices for any of the letters i’m missing or any other character feel free to add them in reblogs!

A - don’t have one! B is for it’ll B ok (weak, i know…) C is “paired” with D, its “opposite” D is for thumbs Down E “paired” with F, its “opposite” F when it’s capitalized has a similar shape to a finger pointing right, kind of! G “paired” with H, its “opposite” - also the first letter of GASTER so easy to remember for me personally H pointing straight down to Hell lol I is for In the palm of your hand (also weak…) J is for Joy K is for ‘K then :| L is for a sad Loser M is for Molotov, even though this isn’t one. hey, they both explode!! N doesn’t have its own device, but it is a letter in sans’ name, which is really fitting because of the skull and bones. so if you remember that much you can narrow it down to four letters, at least! O is “paired” with P, kind of a rounder? softer?? version P is kind of shaped like this Pointy flag Q - don’t have one! R is for a Risen sun, a sunRise, etc S is “paired” with T; they’re reversed, Teardrop should be T and Snowflake should be S but they’re backwards! Also TWO of the letters in sans’ name so it appears pretty often. T is “paired” with S, and explained above U is “paired” with V, and… V is “i’m U but stronger” because of the shadow making it look bolded (lol get it?) and “paired” with U W - don’t have one! X kind of looks like an actual X, though slightly rotated Y - don’t have one! Z - don’t have one!

tips:

learn the common letters and vowels first; if you’re trying to read a full text the more letters you know the better you’ll be able to do at guessing the full word

when translating text, if you don’t know a particular character but are able to guess the word, you can use it for a reference. so if you see “S_NS” and guess correctly that the second character is an A, when you come across “G_STER” and see that same unknown symbol, you know you already “solved” a word with it, so you can go back and use that knowledge instead of killing yourself trying to remember that character all over again

stay determined. pretend that you are papyrus, and the wingdings are a puzzle. you GOT this. it’s really not too difficult.

…and if you want, you can check out my undertale tag where i keep my undertale stuff!