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Xah Lee
​yo guys

Xah Lee
​coming in in a few

Alan W
​okです

Alan W
​keyboard, *katana* of weeb programmer です

Alan W
​some more topics if you're looking: (1) numbers on keyboards, keypads, etc.; (2) number systems---does it make sense to use so many different ones? artifacts of engineering?

Alan W
​(3) clocks, time-keeping; pre-industrial sense of time and effects of time keeping on culutures

Alan W
​konnichiwa, weeb stream
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Alan W
​🍻 cheers

paul durao
​Japanese is polysyllabic like european languages

Alan W
​@Xah Lee opinions on top-down language planning; should (written) language be controlled/standardized?

Alan W
​If you ruled the world (or some corner of it), what would do to standardize language, measurements, etc.?

Alan W
​^ @Xah Lee 皇帝

paul durao
​Portuguese obrigado Japanese origato maybe

Alan W
​@paul durao 😲 never thought of that!

Alan W
​you're from brazil right?

paul durao
​Portugal

Alan W
​ooooh nice

paul durao
​Latin has accents

Alan W
​English is 60% orthography; undersized keyboard without enough buttons

Alan W
​@Xah Lee 简体字 'simplified characters' <- biggest orthographic waste of time ever?!?

Alan W
​ginormous scale language planning scandal

Alan W
​Korean hangul 한글 ~mid 15th century

Alan W
​Korean standard keyboard layout is also pretty good; mostly vowels on one side, consonants on another

Alan W
​kinda dvorak like 😃

Alan W
​omniglot dot com slash writing <- pretty good site for seeing writing system samples in action

Alan W
​xah site is more informative for the technological / unicode /etc. side of things though 😀

Alan W
​@Xah Lee one counter point to the separation between writing and speech---there are a lot of idioms, words, etc. that are motivated by the writing

Alan W
​for example we talk about the "ABCs of such and such"

Alan W
​as well as have tons of abbreviations used all the time---PC (personal computer; politically correct, ...),

Alan W
​NERD SPEECH makes more reference to written things ahaha

Alan W
​@Xah Lee maybe we should just give up on talking to people face to face and always use smart phones to communicate with the people around us

paul durao
​Lol

Alan W
​i just tried to add subtitles to video

Alan W
​but we can't do live ahah

Alan W
​for irony

Daniel Langlois
​Hi!

Alan W
​👋

paul durao
​English has a lot of accents just in England

Alan W
​in America we speak American

Kathy H
​Gee, you didn't learn English until you move to Cananda? @Xah Lee that's learning in the hardest way

Alan W
​English people all have funny accents

Alan W
​Leftist Xah is deconstructing language

Nabi Yang
​but i don't want to understand people. only anime

paul durao
​Hhk japan was different than hhk English

Alan W
​@Nabi Yang the honesty is overwhelming

Kathy H
​@Alan W Indeed

paul durao
​Lol

paul durao
​European dictionaries have synonyms and antonyms unlike American

Alan W
​"Xah is such a goodie two shoes that he watches all of his anime LEGALLY on streaming services"

paul durao
​Idiomatic makes French hard to understand

Daniel Langlois
​haughtily prudish and self-righteous and rigidly moral, THAT's me!

Emily
​Heyy gang

Alan W
​goodie two shoes programmers always telling us to follow best practices

Kathy H
​heyyy emily!

Alan W
​trying to hold us down with editor config files

Emily
​💜

Alan W
​@Emily did you follow design patterns and document your code today?

paul durao
​Portugal borrows English

Alan W
​おｋ

Emily
​@Alan A - I did - was learning Erlang today :D

Alan W
​was the concurrency overwhelming?

Emily
​Overwhelmingly cool 😎

Alan W
​The "logic" of a logical language is relative to the semantic model it captures of the world; lojban and stuff just force you to compose sentences n stuff based on ONE model of the world

Alan W
​this isn't more or less logical than other ways of communicating, just different

Alan W
​the general practice of *rigor* in choosing words careful (diction), composing precise sentences, ...this is far more important for training rationality than nerd speak

Daniel Langlois
​'rying to hold us down with editor config files..? I don't even like how they take up space in my editor/IDE..

Alan W
​lets exile them to .gitignore 😡

Daniel Langlois
​I'm not trying to hold you down with editor config files. They take up space on GitHub. And in the Finder!

Daniel Langlois
​I want NOTHING to distract from the readme.

Nabi Yang
​shibboleth

Alan W
​.DS_Store

Alan W
​burn it with fire

Alan W
​blank key caps shibboleth

Alan W
​to find the true touch typers

Nabi Yang
​that's how you tell one tribe from another: shibboleth. i know you're qwerty tribe!

Daniel Langlois
​editorconfig support. Am I missing something?

Nabi Yang
​i'll know it when you make qwerty typos

Daniel Langlois
​Like --print-width , what about --print-width!

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Alan W
​asdfjk;l

Alan W
​goodie two shoes @Xah Lee complaining about noise pollution

Alan W
​now he is brooding in passive aggression

Alan W
​classic nerd rage

Alan W
​🔥

Daniel Langlois
​I woke up from a nightmare screaming 'Unzip all files in the "server-files" folder, then run .exe file and everything should work..'

Alan W
​😲

Daniel Langlois
​I spend a lot of time keeping abreast of social movements in Taiwan. I'm kidding, of course.

paul durao
​Interesting lgbt in bookstores but no tech lol in Portugal

paul durao
​Very interesting American influence

Alan W
​contrarian edge lord xah likes to say pro-China things to tick off the neo-liberal technocrat crowd

Daniel Langlois
​What do Taiwanese think of simplified Chinese? Now I know.

Alan W
​@Xah Lee my glasses prescription got stronger after I learned how to read a few thousand Chinese characters

Alan W
​who would've thought

paul durao
​Very interesting

Alan W
​yeah i did nerd style learning chinese like how you described starting with english

Nabi Yang
​よろしく

Nabi Yang
​i forget what japanese people always say after that in ffxiv. there's a longer version

Daniel Langlois
​Taiwan It is not recognized as a country by the U.S.

Nabi Yang
​you know the worst thing about trying to type in japanese is that i can't press space >.> i just give up

Emily
​@Xah Lee - what's your favourite word that you've come across?

Daniel Langlois
​Jimmy Carter decided to abandon official diplomatic relations with Taipei in order to recognize Beijing.

mc read
​All these volumes get replaced by stuff like Gramarly no ? ...

Nabi Yang
​splendiferous

Nabi Yang
​it is$

Nabi Yang
​it is!

Nabi Yang
​it's an amazing word lol, because it looks fake

Daniel Langlois
​"Kerfuffle"

Alan W
​covfefe

Freddy Freeman
​hey all!

Freddy Freeman
​covfefe!

Alan W
​hi @Freddy Freeman !

mc read
​the only good reason to have wikipedia is to get some info on population of various cities

BartholomewJS
​Greetings.

mc read
​cheers

Alan W
​English has lots of great phrases

BartholomewJS
​My favourite word: "capricious".

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Alan W
​"mental masturbation"

Daniel Langlois
​Wikipedia Will Fail. I can actually sit in judgement of the Wiki-world with some accuracy. Wikipedia as an active community is dying, and no one can stop it.

Xah Lee
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