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(O_o) Okay, what's with all the plus and minus signs?
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As far as I can judge, + means "these games involve the same Link" and - (a hyphen, not a minus sign - that's assuming it isn't an underscore) means "these games involve two different Links". Derived from this is the fact that games joined with a + take place in close succession, whereas games joined with a - tend to be considerably farther apart in time.
As far as "arranging all the notes" goes, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that this actually did get written out on a blackboard and we're looking at a photograph. If for no other reason than that I don't think I've seen an image-program brush tool which is capable of looking that much (and, importantly, that inconsistently) like chalk marks.
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I can't speak to the meaning of the timeline, having only rudimentary knowledge of Zelda, but I can say the letters and spacing and alignment are too regular and precise to be an actual person's writing (Even the marks appear in the same place on the letter). It is rather impressive feat of collecting the series though.
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I thought that too at first, but take a closer look at the letters. All the 'O's, for example, are exactly alike, as are all the 'M's. I've never seen anyone able to write that regularly on paper, let alone on a chalkboard.
Edit: Ninja'd. I wish there was a way to view seconds on the timestamp.
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Oh, it's a font for certain, probably parsed through something like Photoshop which undoubtedly has a tool powerful enough to make it look like an actual chalk marking.
On the subject of the timeline itself, we either need an explanation from the author, or a subject matter expert on everything Zelda.
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Seems obvious to me that the pluses indicate games with the same Link and the hyphens are for timeline gaps. All appears to work out, too.
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I think he was asking for Acronym expansion
TWW = The Wind Waker/Walker
TLOZ = The (original) Legend of Zelda
OOT= Ocarina of Time
MM = Majora's Mask
TP = Twilight Princess
but some of the Game Boy/Advance/DS titles are Opaque to me
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PH = Phantom Hourglass
ST = Spirit Tracks
TMC = The Minish Cap
FS = Four Swords
FSA = Four Swords Adventures
OOS = Oracle of Seasons
OOA = Oracle of Ages
LA = Link's Awakening
TAOL = The Adventure of Link
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...does it say something about me that the possibility of people not being able to figure out the abbreviations didn't even begin to occur to me?
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It would say something similar about me, so...
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