CRConrad

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by CRConrad 7mo ago
Yeah, I think[*] that's common for most languages: With much more material in writing, vocabulary and spelling stabilize. ___ [*]: I guess, from what I've understood -- absolutely no expert, just interested.
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by CRConrad 7mo ago
> it looks more Germanic to me, which I don't have the knowledge to read. Of course you do, not only to read but write: English still is a Germanic language.
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by CRConrad 8mo ago
Replace "that thing that looks like a 3" with, eh, "gh" I think. (Sorry, can't recall for sure, returning to this thread a couple days after reading TFA.)
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by CRConrad 8mo ago
Paradoxically, that might help us speakers of Continental Germanic languages, since it could bring both pronounciation och word-roots closer to traits that have survived in Dutch, German, or the Nordic languages.
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by CRConrad 8mo ago
> al þar sor and al þat sorȝe. > all there sour and all that sorryness. "all those sores and all that sorrow"?
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by CRConrad 8mo ago
Yup, definitely easiest. (That's how I first got it too.) Dunno if it's ethymologically correct, though; that depends on what the roots of "pain" are. Since it's explained further down the page that it comes from an
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by CRConrad 8mo ago
I'm fairly certain the "ruling parasitic class" in this bit: > ...all German people who have been divided and conquered by a ruling parasitic class that we all know moved around the continent, marrying into each other’s fa
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by CRConrad 8mo ago
I'm almost certain it's the imperative form of a verb, in the grammar of the time apparently "to swien", "to be silent" or "to shut up". "Swie!" from "swien" looks kind of exactly
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by CRConrad 8mo ago
> > puna(?) > Note that the p is struck through below its loop; that is probably an abbreviation for "per". Aha, so "peruna". How the heck did Dante know what "potato" would come to be called, centurie
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by CRConrad 8mo ago
> No idea what this word ["swie"] is. "Be silent" (or "shut up"). Feels like it must be a cognate of Ger. "Schweige[n]".
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by CRConrad 8mo ago
> It still boggles my mind that my Mum would pick a name the Dutch can't pronounce. Maybe she meant for you to go by Mathias (or whatever the local equivalent is) when in the Netherlands?
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by CRConrad 8mo ago
Almost correct, except it's Swedish the Danes are speaking with a hot potato in their mouth.
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by CRConrad 8mo ago
In a crashed flying saucer, in the recordings of an old alien ethnographer?
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by CRConrad 8mo ago
OTOH, those 6,000 characters sound rather like child abuse to me.
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by CRConrad 8mo ago
> BS. Phonetic alphabets are _much_ easier to learn for everyone. BS yourself: The English -- e.e. Latin -- alphabet is just as phonetic as any other. As long as you don't fuck up your pronounciation as thoroughly as English has don
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by CRConrad 8mo ago
Textual / Text-based UI used to be more common. Makes more sense, too: Although you run TUI apps in it, the terminal itself is inherently more of a CLI than a TUI. Makes "terminal" rather misleading, IMO.
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by CRConrad 8mo ago
> Each time I want something to be easier, I open claude-code and ask for a TUI. WTF has happened to software development, that anyone thinks they need "AI" for that? Any self-respecting half-way decent IDE has had parameterize
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by CRConrad 8mo ago
Yeah, but Preussag only changed its name to Touristik Union International in 1997[1], so I think the user interface interpretation clearly predates the travel agency one. ___ [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUI_Gro
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by CRConrad 8mo ago
Yeah, but I see your link is to "Text-based _user_interface", not "Terminal _user_interface". (Personally, I recall seeing "Textual" at least as often as "Text-based".) The styling "Terminal&qu
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by CRConrad 8mo ago
> ...a way any human would balk at (push main to origin, delete .git, re-clone from origin. Merged local branches are gone!) Ahem... But yeah, then I -- or we, I and my team at the time -- (somewhat, at least rudimentarily) learned git.
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by CRConrad 8mo ago
That's anti-social. They're anti-social media.
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by CRConrad 8mo ago
You might be on to something there... That the effort itself raises quality? Perhaps.
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by CRConrad 8mo ago
More like 25-30 years, innit?
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by CRConrad 8mo ago
> Usenet before the Eternal September? Even well after it, in many places. The effect wasn't universally immediate.
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by CRConrad 8mo ago
> It's pure logic that Tesla has to pursue bets that would justify billion dollar valuations and being a car company isn't that. Isn't this in reply to a post (or was that another reply just below it?) about how other, &qu
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by CRConrad 8mo ago
So you're "fully aware" that you're supposed to pay attention, but you still think "making driving more chill" is somehow desirable (or at least supposed to be desirable, for marketing purposes)... I think you
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by CRConrad 9mo ago
Yes it is: If those civilisations could "develop the long and hard way", why couldn't we?
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by CRConrad 9mo ago
Even if that were true, it wouldn't disprove the link to racism: Eratosthenes was Hellene, not native Egyptian. He "counts as white"; ancient Egyptians may or may not.
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by CRConrad 9mo ago
Feels to me that the current popularity of "What if...?"-scenarios of Alternative History may be a substitute. Though those are at least explicitly acknowledged as speculation, not some "Hidden Truth". (In contrast to &q
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by CRConrad 9mo ago
"People in his time"?!? He only died the other day. Until last week was "his time"! And new weird religions / cults / sects like the "Ancient Aliens" one he founded are being born all the time. Th

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