There aren't that many words for nouns in scribblish. As a result, we have to combine scribbles more often than not to make certain words, or just use the English equivalent instead. If you look on the quick reference sheet, you can see there are the basic building blocks of nouns. Again, the subject of the noun, or the main, most broad thing is the first object/scribble, then the subsequent nouns/scribbles add more specificity to the noun. For example,
vs.
.
The first word, paper words ('s makes something plural), means a piece of paper that is a word. It could mean a word-shaped piece of paper.
The second word, word papers, means words on pieces of paper. It can mean physical sheets of paper with words on them, or you can add the placeholder character (
), and make it into a book instead of a sheet of paper. In other words, on that last point, if you add
, you can make a collection of nouns into a single noun.
| English word/phrase/sentence | Scribblish word/phrase/sentence | Explanation |
| electric circuit | {| | This literally translates to, "electric loop." It means electricity that is a loop. |
| loop of electricity | |{ | This literally translates to, "loop electric." It means some kind of a loop of electricity, such as an electric arc in the form of a circle, for example. |
Ah yes... The dot. A humble dot, in the center of the line, like a multiplication sign. This dot is meant to connect 2 words more directly, like a sticky piece of glue. It's mostly used for emphasis, and in more-than-2-scribble words. Say you wanted to reference this tutorial series, saying that it was so good that you printed it out and framed it and put it on your front door for everyone to learn the secrets of scribblish. Let's just stick with the 'printed digital words' part of that. Let's do this the logical way first. You would probably start with the scribble for paper/physical, since that's the main idea. Then, since what's on the paper is the digital words, you would add 'digital words' to the word. In all, you would get this:
. This makes sense. The first scribble, meaining physical, or paper, is the most broad, and the subject of the noun. Then, you see the scribble for word. That also makes sense. You have words on paper. The last scribble, digital, still makes a lot of sense. It's a word that is digital. This is a perfectly good way to describe a printed out digital tutorial.
But what if you wanted to emphasize that what's on the paper is a digital set of words? Well, you can't say
, since that would mean "physical that is digital that is word." That doesn't make sense. If you wanted to do this, however, you could use a dot, in between the digital and word scribbles:
As you may have noticed, the dot 'glues' the digital and word scribbles together into a single word, which can then modify the physical scribble in one, regardless of the order of each.
As the title suggests, this section talks about how to mark posession of something. The 'of' marker is a small, upside-down nike (tm) swoosh with a dot inside. It looks like this:
. You can see that the word book is at the end, 'you' is at the front, and the scribble 'of' is in the middle. Literally translated, it would say 'you of book,' but you could (and probably should) read it as 'you's book,' saying that the book is yours, or 'you's.' Another example would be describing the water in a cup. To say this, you would say,
. First notice how the words for cup and water are not currently defined. That most likely will change in the future. You could also make your own version of 'water' and 'cup,' however you see fit. If you know the general way that nouns work, you should be able to translate any noun into its literal meaning regardless of what scribbles make them up. Anyway, you can see that 'cup' preceeds 'water.' You could see this literally as saying, 'cup's water.' It is the cup's water. I hope that makes sense. You define the subject of the noun in the beginning, and then a part of that subject to actually focus on in the sentence.
This section is pretty quick. There's three different 'brackets' for you to choose from for this. You saw the brackets for 'is' in the last tutorial. The brackets for saying 'a circuit,' for example, is the 'is' bracket without the horizontal line. The brackets for saying 'the circuit,' would be the same as the 'a' brackets, but with another 'L' shape in the top left corner. Below is a quick table of all the different bracket types:
| English word/phrase/sentence | Scribblish word/phrase/sentence | Explanation |
| a person | QoR | As you can see, this is basically 2 identical brackets in the bottom left and top right corners of this box bounding what you're describing. |
| the person | ¶oR | This is just the 'a' but with a mirrored version at the top. |
| the person is walking. | ¶oRTÖÀËÊÈÍÆR | This literally translates to [the] person [end of the] [is] walking [end of is]. You can think about it as just reading 'a' or 'the' before whatever's inside. |
So that's nouns. I hope you're noticing the general pattern here. I wanted to make this all as simple as possible, and as a result I tried to make the rules for everything as simple as possible. Tune in next time for a crash course on verbs!