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I propose a law of esoteric langauges: If there exists, in popular culture, a character with a comically limited vocabulary (e.g. Groot, The Librarian in Discw
by MichaelAza 12y ago
I propose a law of esoteric langauges:
If there exists, in popular culture, a character with a comically limited vocabulary (e.g. Groot, The Librarian in Discworld) then there shall be a Brainfuck variant based on its vocabulary. (In our example, Grootlang and Ook)
- samstokes 12y agoSupporting evidence: https://github.com/mikar/hodor https://github.com/mikar/hodor
- plumeria 12y agoThat gives us one language for every Pokemon (i.e pika pika, pik pikachu, pikachuuu, pikachu!)
- mathgeek 12y agoArguably you're only counting the lower bounds. There are many Pokémon that have at least two different languages (based on English and Japanese names).
- jackmaney 12y agoThat's easy. Now, automating that by putting enough NLP together to scan social media and news sites to classify popular characters with a comically limited vocabulary and automatically generate a Brainfuck variant based upon said character's vocabulary? That's the hard part... ;)