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by knolax 8y ago
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuv hncynic 1 minute ago I'm glad to see this. The fact that you might have an unnecessary QR code when your web server logs into HTTP might be of interest. I also wonder if it's actually possible to just use a
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by knolax 8y ago
I got it to generate a link. with the title "geiabl" hncynic 1 minute ago This is from 2012, not 2012! It was also recently discussed on HN and the title was changed from "Geiabl is an online video game where you can create a
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I love the little avatar they have for the site. Little touches like thatare really underrated.
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>There's a built in longevity to the game that there isn't in e-gaming. Tetris came out 35 years ago and they're still holding world tournaments for it. Not to say that modern modern e-sports are the same as Tetris, but th
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by knolax 8y ago
Wonder what it would take to transform, as an one to one function, any random text into a syntactically correct program of any language. Off the top of my head, enclosing the text in a string literal would work, but are there more interesti
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>she said there's really no difference and people only see the distinction as being a foreign thing. Foreign as in the distinction only matters to non-Samoans or that the only difference between Samoans and American-Samoans is that
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by knolax 8y ago
Last comment was four years ago...
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People now study the Egyptologists themselves as they had once studied the Ancient Egyptians.
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>And I suppose, as someone who does a lot of thinking without an internal narrative I feel a bit attacked by the whole idea. When ideas like this and Sapir-Whorf pop up it really makes me wonder if maybe the social "sciences" a
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by knolax 8y ago
Not saying your wrong, but there's a disclaimer at the bottom of that website: "This website was built & is maintained by volunteers with no official relation to Bernie Sanders. We’re regular people, unassociated with any Supe
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Maybe he's just posting it as a historical curiosity.
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Having just tried Tilde, I think a bunch of users HN going to Tilde would probably be equivalent to a bunch of Reddit users going to HN. The quality of discussion is going to go down as the forum gets bigger.
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The sound quality in the video was bad enough that I didn't recognize the "huh" equivalents that I myself would use often.
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That comic just seems like a lazy way of dismissing people by assuming bad faith.
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>At any rate, good discussion. Agreed.
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> an extra layer of depth I think that's the best way to put it. Like you intuited, a phonetic system is perfectly capable of writing down spoken conversations, but without as much context as a spoken conversation it's going to
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by knolax 8y ago
Yes but the point is that CA and 加州 are both two syllables in speech. In your example, "televison" is 4 syllables whereas "电视" is only two. As you've noted, the writing system has over time created a higher informat
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静夜思 is taught in early elementary school and not exactly what most native speakers would describe as a difficult poem.
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You're drawing a false analogy here, the problem isn't that phonetic writing isn't capable of rendering classical texts; the problem is that they can't competently render any text written in the formal register.
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But they can't be mapped back.
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I don't think quoting Mao is doing your argument any favors. >It's conceivable to me that China could benefit from a move to alphabetic writing, and translations of Classical Chinese into vernacular The issue is not that classi
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Yes and in alphabetic languages those word components are much more ambiguous, especially in abbreviations. 加州 is a lot less ambiguous than CA, hence the greater prevalence of the former in daily use.
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The book you keep citing was published in 1984. A lot has happened in China, especially in regards to education reform between 1984 and 2018. Aside from that book, I see no other signs of "serious scholarly dispute about the success of
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by knolax 8y ago
Yes and English speakers forget the spelling of rare words, especially if they were to spend extended periods of time using nothing but text-to-speech. Those that do use Pinyin to write on their computers also know that the large number of
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by knolax 8y ago
Yes, and that standardized lingua franca invariably splinters off and becomes less regular. Compare medieval Latin to the modern Romance languages.
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>just a matter of habit That's a vast understatement. Adopting a writing system that would render everything written in the formal register incomprehensible isn't exactly a tenable position.
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Except all Chinese speakers in the current generation are taught Pinyin in school.
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>Yes That's a myopic view of language. Changes like "better" --> "more good" don't last for long as irregularities will naturally form, making your "optimal" language yet another legacy constrai
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> I meant was a phonetic system could be used in all ways contemporary spoken Mandarin is currently used without getting too tripped up by homophones. Except phonetic writing systems are aren't even capable of representing Chinese n

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