Choice of glyphs

[Koen G]

I'm sure many non-native English speakers here recall hearing the song You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. before they learned English, and later being surprised to learn it's not real English. As a native English speaker, though, it's a creepy song; I feel as though I should understand it, and if I listen hard enough, I will. But no. Adriano Celentano mimicked the phonology and prosody of English quite well, even though he didn't speak it at all.

Heh, I only heard this song as a kid and I had no idea it was nonsense   The "all right" really sells it.

The "looking like language" strategy would only fool the illiterate though. Wouldn't someone used to reading manuscripts raise an eyebrow at this strange glyph set? In their eyes it would be comprised of numbers, ligatures and abbreviations, which might be more jarring than we suspect.