What on earth is this? (Found outside my house)

[brooklyn66]

Yesterday came home to find a bit of folded-up paper wedged in a crack in the fence wall bit (pavement goes right past it). Opened it up to find 2x2p coins inside unrecognisable writing - see pic!
What is this?

Here's the image flipped and enlarged. Some other people may be able to read words in this one?

And read left to right.

Whatever language or code system it's written in, my instinct is that it's benevolent and kindly meant.

Possibly sad and poignant, if indeed due to somebody's state of mind... but nothing creepy or sinister, OP, I wouldn't worry

The only words I can sort of make out are sex, exercise, expose, and explore. Make of that what you will.

Slightly more seriously, whatever language it's in (if any), it looks very repetitive, so I'll go with the spell/chant theory myself.

Oh I don't want it to be someone's heavy breathing sex letter. That's going to ruin everything.

Someone who is mentally ill.

23 pages and no solution.

I hope someone solves the mystery, I'm afraid I'm the interested audience rather than a main protagonist in this one!

This threads going to make me late for work 😠😂

Is it shorthand? Any shorthand people out there?!

Could you send to www.britishgraphology.org and they could maybe at least see if it's English alphabet??

placemarking

Honey it's been established that it definitely not short hand...I love this thread!

Husband suggested it was something like Indonesian, he also spotted lots of repetition. Some, but not all, of the characters look like Arabic.

This is a boring (and sad) suggestion, but to me it looks like the work of someone with schizophrenia or other disorder. I have known several people who weren't properly treated, who did things like write manifestos or strange messages in illegible script and place them in spots with a significance known only to themselves.

Yes, this was my first thought too.

It looks like mirror writing to be, everything backwards, sorry if someone has already suggested it.

Very weird... also placemarking bcoz I'm intrigued!

Ooh I hope we find out! Surely someone in mumsnet world knows a language expert?

I have nothing to offer, but this made fascinating reading!

brooklyn66 - I really wouldn't of put it back in case this is a place marking & you come home to find your house robbed!

Jens303 she's already put it back and its gone, people who placemark for robberies use symbols, a quick visual thing.

I thought Romany spell but I don't think so. I'm leaning towards its just gibberish and we'll never know, seeing as its gone I think the person who put it there didn't want anyone else to have it. It's means something only to the person who wrote it, maybe a pointer to the way home.

Thinking about it it I agree it's some form of hypergraphia, its not manic but written in a controlled and precise way, one symbol is the same at the beginning of a sentence and another at the end, its the repetition that's interesting maybe a comfort to the writer. The pen holes probably tap marks if they were listening to something. Not sinister just a ritual for the writer, like a form of doodling ease the mental floss so to speak. Just a thought.

We need a Welsh speaker to weigh in on that suggestion!

I think its Romulan

As for coins for the ferryman, traditionally they go on the mouth or under the tongue, coins on the eyes used to be the big old pennies the ones with Brittania on in England to weigh the eyes down, not done for a long time having said good-bye to lots of family non of them were staring at me and no need for coins. Definitely don't think they were there for that.

How about this? The language is Tigrinya.