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I found that four letters added some ambiguity and some uneeded complexity. Maybe 5 or even 6 letters? Still, this is a great intro to relativity and it was a
by darxius 13y ago
I found that four letters added some ambiguity and some uneeded complexity. Maybe 5 or even 6 letters?
Still, this is a great intro to relativity and it was a fun read. Also a cool literary feat.
- buo 13y agoAbout the cool literary feat: I'm wondering if there are languages other than English in which it'd be possible to write something like this. I speak Spanish and French and I'm sure it's impossible in both -- they just don't have enough short words.
- hkmurakami 13y agoProbably Chinese and Japanese since Chinese characters have such high information density, but non-Western languages might defeat the purpose of the experiment.
- dnautics 13y agoI find the fuzzing of proper names gets annoying, and it would be better if the rule were relaxed for proper names.
- shardling 13y agoAlso, a quick google serach indicates that "Ike" is a more common nickname than "Izzy". (And that if Newton had any nicknames in his time, none seem to have survived.)
- alexdowad 13y agoPersonally, I found the abbreviated names made the piece even more hilariously irreverent than it already was. "Izzy" for Isaac Newton? Makes him sound like an 1980's heavy metal star or something.