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Oh dear I just made one up
November 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Oh dear I just made one up
My Erdős number runs through him
November 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
My Erdős number runs through him
G23.4.11
Why candles
attract moths
and flies.
Why candles
attract moths
and flies.
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
G23.4.11
Why candles
attract moths
and flies.
Why candles
attract moths
and flies.
Topiarist: I’m in love with the shape of yew
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Topiarist: I’m in love with the shape of yew
But I’m more familiar with how fluid and unstandardized English spelling was up until the King James bible, and how it’s changed very little in 400 years since. Then Johnson and Webster basically nailed it in place with their dictionaries
November 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
But I’m more familiar with how fluid and unstandardized English spelling was up until the King James bible, and how it’s changed very little in 400 years since. Then Johnson and Webster basically nailed it in place with their dictionaries
Yeah exactly. Also there were major differences in the grammar, it’s not like writers using Latin were just spelling things old fashioned. And I’m not familiar enough with the history to say who was consciously or not choosing spellings
November 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Yeah exactly. Also there were major differences in the grammar, it’s not like writers using Latin were just spelling things old fashioned. And I’m not familiar enough with the history to say who was consciously or not choosing spellings
When I say exackly, I’m responding to a similar constraint. It feels childish to not articulate the letter that’s there, but I take comfort knowing Petrarch didn’t say the c in octō
November 8, 2025 at 4:52 AM
When I say exackly, I’m responding to a similar constraint. It feels childish to not articulate the letter that’s there, but I take comfort knowing Petrarch didn’t say the c in octō
In Latin they said septem and octō. At some point something shifted and pt and ct got harder for Italians to say, so they started saying sette and otto instead. Even so, for a long time writers didn’t deign to write in Italian, holding onto these ghost letters
November 8, 2025 at 4:52 AM
In Latin they said septem and octō. At some point something shifted and pt and ct got harder for Italians to say, so they started saying sette and otto instead. Even so, for a long time writers didn’t deign to write in Italian, holding onto these ghost letters
I guess quattro is more like thirtteen. You get the idea
November 8, 2025 at 3:29 AM
I guess quattro is more like thirtteen. You get the idea
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I think they like working with it. It’s like potter’s clay
November 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I think they like working with it. It’s like potter’s clay
Sometimes this makes it possible to drop hints about stress. Very occasionally, this allows non-homonyms to be spelled differently, as in the verb and noun forms of “survey”
November 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Sometimes this makes it possible to drop hints about stress. Very occasionally, this allows non-homonyms to be spelled differently, as in the verb and noun forms of “survey”
Similarly, primary stress syllables take longe to say and will accept consonant clusters even in their codas
November 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Similarly, primary stress syllables take longe to say and will accept consonant clusters even in their codas
This could be partly a lack of literacy on my part. I spend much more time writing rook script than reading, and my snap word recognition is very weak. If it were better, I’d probably prefer morphemic syllable boundaries for reading too
November 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This could be partly a lack of literacy on my part. I spend much more time writing rook script than reading, and my snap word recognition is very weak. If it were better, I’d probably prefer morphemic syllable boundaries for reading too
There’s a tension between spelling to read and spelling to write. When you write you have morphemes and you just want to get them on the page whole, but when you read you just want the sounds—your brain will make words of them after
November 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
There’s a tension between spelling to read and spelling to write. When you write you have morphemes and you just want to get them on the page whole, but when you read you just want the sounds—your brain will make words of them after
It’s kind of an autonym isn’t it? What I was thinking of was homeward bound but the sense of unable to leave is probably more common. I like it because it has double stress
November 6, 2025 at 11:53 PM
It’s kind of an autonym isn’t it? What I was thinking of was homeward bound but the sense of unable to leave is probably more common. I like it because it has double stress
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Here is a rook pangram to see the 37 letters of rook script in their habitat:
The royal youth are measuring vibes to exchange one more homebound sheep for a good sieve
The royal youth are measuring vibes to exchange one more homebound sheep for a good sieve
November 6, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Here is a rook pangram to see the 37 letters of rook script in their habitat:
The royal youth are measuring vibes to exchange one more homebound sheep for a good sieve
The royal youth are measuring vibes to exchange one more homebound sheep for a good sieve
She’s tall like burj khalifa
November 6, 2025 at 10:36 PM
She’s tall like burj khalifa
I just want a language that keeps its words pruned and holds them in little molded boxes. Just as a snapshot, the words will always outgrow their boxes. But I’ve shown myself that the boxes can be made
November 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I just want a language that keeps its words pruned and holds them in little molded boxes. Just as a snapshot, the words will always outgrow their boxes. But I’ve shown myself that the boxes can be made