Could it be that Hrant has finally broken through to people with his alphabet reform?

Well, okay, maybe not . . . ;-)

They might have come up with more believable glyphs by trawling in one of these old Typophile threads.
(Of course I suppose that the goofier the glyphs, the more amusing one might take the story to be.)

I am just happy to see letterforms as the subject matter in The Onion.

ChrisL

The Onion has always been typographically aware! But really, it
has long been established that we only really need one character:
http://www.themicrofoundry.com/ss_uniglyph1.html

hhp