# A Mythical, Architectural Alphabet. With Link, Please And Thank You **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 21, 2024, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-mythical-architectural-alphabet-with-link-please-and-thank-you/1001877 "2024-05-21T16:40:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2024, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-mythical-architectural-alphabet-with-link-please-and-thank-you/1001877/1 "2024-05-21T16:40:31Z")
This is darn adorable. And possibly inhabitable. [Recite Your ABCs… {LINK}](http://blog.presentandcorrect.com/alfabeto-pittorico) ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2024, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-mythical-architectural-alphabet-with-link-please-and-thank-you/1001877/2 "2024-05-21T17:00:13Z")
Mods, could you fix the title. (No coffee in the house…) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2024, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-mythical-architectural-alphabet-with-link-please-and-thank-you/1001877/3 "2024-05-21T21:01:58Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Mods, could you fix the title. Sure. What’s wrong with it? And where are all of the other letters? I see A-F and K, nothing else. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2024, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-mythical-architectural-alphabet-with-link-please-and-thank-you/1001877/4 "2024-05-21T21:26:12Z")
There’s a tiny link over the A that goes to the full book. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2024, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-mythical-architectural-alphabet-with-link-please-and-thank-you/1001877/5 "2024-05-21T23:15:49Z")
Interesting. It has an ampersand, but no J or W. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2024, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-mythical-architectural-alphabet-with-link-please-and-thank-you/1001877/6 "2024-05-21T23:58:28Z")
A direct link to the full book. [https://www.storiaememoriadibologna.it/archivio/opere/alfabeto-pittorico-basoli-antonio](https://www.storiaememoriadibologna.it/archivio/opere/alfabeto-pittorico-basoli-antonio) ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-mythical-architectural-alphabet-with-link-please-and-thank-you/1001877/7 "2024-05-23T03:20:07Z")
It’s Italian, so it only has the Italian subset of letters. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-mythical-architectural-alphabet-with-link-please-and-thank-you/1001877/8 "2024-05-23T04:29:54Z")
I feel like if you were in the B building all of a sudden you wouldn’t be able to understand anyone ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-mythical-architectural-alphabet-with-link-please-and-thank-you/1001877/9 "2024-05-23T06:10:23Z")
Isn’t one of those a Mike Oldfield album cover?