My comment is a joke about antimatter. OP's comment is a joke making fun of GB News, which is often referred to as "Britain's Fox News". The last comment is pointing out how the UK is xenophobic and racist towards the same peoples whose cultures they appropriated.
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So the Palace of Westminster is just the White House with CPT reversal? I had no idea.
Honestly I thought the dementors were squid ink before I read the label
Nothing is exactly set in stone (no pun intended), but my current idea essentially involves updating the letter forms to be better suited for writing on paper, and I was also thinking of using a dot diacritic for voicing and umlaut, and having the staves be x-height normally but extend downward for doubled consonants.
Ideas that are more sort of "on the table" are whether to use monographs for ⟨sj⟩ and ⟨kj⟩ etc, and monographs for the diphthongs; whether to have an optional diacritic form of ⟨r⟩ to represent the assimilation of /r/ in Eastern Norwegian; whether to use the same letters for certain sounds in complementary distribution; whether to extend the usage of the dot diacritic to alternate between otherwise similar sounds, rather than only voice and umlaut; and whether the runes should indeed have staves at all.
The problem is that depending on how many of these ideas are implemented, and the ways in which they are implemented, you eventually end up basically abandoning the idea of "modern runes" in favor of basically reinventing Shavian script but for Scandinavian. So it's difficult to strike that sort of middle ground between ancient and modern, especially when trying to balance that with practicality of use and ease of learning. Another matter is of course which forms of runes to actually base the script on: if we stick to just Scandinavia, we have Elder Futhark, Younger Futhark, medieval runes, staveless runes, and Dalecarlian runes, and these often have very different letter forms from each other.
Bokmål and nynorsk without a space, yes.
I have thought about developing an alternate script for Norwegian/Scandinavian based on the old runes, really just because I think that would be fun and interesting, but insofar as I haven't done this yet, I don't know of any alternate scripts for Norwegian, and obviously there isn't much point in talking about English.
So I will instead share an alternate script for a language I do not speak: Circassian, or specifically West Circassian or Adyghe.
Father and son duo R. I. Daur and I. Yu. Daur together developed an alternate script for that language in I think 2012. The script was dubbed "Mifo-Circassian", and as I understand it, it's an attempt to give the Circassian language a more unique visual identity, by using letters based on old inscribed symbols — I think the emblems of clans more specifically — rather than using an adapted foreign alphabet like Latin, Arabic, or Cyrillic. Furthermore, Circassian has a very unique inventory of sounds that interact with each other in unique ways, that foreign alphabets can't really do justice, so this alphabet is more uniquely suited for the challenges that come with representing Circassian in writing. Mifo-Circassian writing seems like it may be used both alphabetically and alphasyllabically, but the alphabetic form is far more common.
Well, "more common", not that many Circassians actually do use this Mifo-Circassian script to begin with. Cyrillic, Latin, and Arabic have the benefit of being supported by Unicode and of also being used by neighboring languages, and they work well enough for representing Circassian. So it seems like the primary usage of Mifo-Circassian is not necessarily for communicative writing, but rather for more ornamental or artistic usage.
Honestly I would just keep self-describing as "weird" if I were you. If it really is damé to do so, then use a thesaurus; or if you're multilingual, be a little macaronic.
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Stage 1: "What, the characters are drinking A&W Root Beer at an A&W restaurant? Honestly, I have seen hundreds of hours of anime and not once before have I seen any type of root beer anywhere, nor any other indication that A&W is a thing in Japan. Root beer is near-impossible to get in Norway, so how come A&W is apparently enough of a thing in Japan for the animators to displace the logo and expect it to be recognized? And if root beer is a thing in Japan, why have I never seen it in anime until now?"
Stage 2: "So the only A&W restaurants in Japan are in Okinawa Prefecture? Why only Okinawa of all places? Not too many people live there, you'd think if anywhere that the A&W restaurants would be in the bigger cities like Tokyo or whatever."
Stage 3: "The A&W restaurants in Okinawa initially targeted US service personnel, but gradually became popular among the locals? Honestly, how many American soldiers had to be on that island for how long for A&W to become established there? There's American soldiers in Norway too, but we don't have A&W."
Stage 4: "OK, so, very many American soldiers for a very long time. Like, literally a quarter of Okinawa is just American military bases still today, and Okinawa accounts for some 70% of all the US military presence in Japan. What do the locals of Okinawa think of that arrangement? Like, surely they must think that a quarter of the island being military bases is a bit excessive, right? Like there's so much you can do with that land that isn't so, you know, bellicose, right? It's just strange, isn't it?"
Stage 5: [was going to make a root beer float but just can't help but blankly stare at the A&W can and think about the American military bases in Okinawa]
Stage 6: "YANKS GET THE FUCK OUTTA UCHINAA!!! FREE RYUKYU FROM THE FOREIGN YOKE!!!"
Bilibili and Niconico are often called "Chinese YouTube" and "Japanese YouTube" respectively, to get the general gist of the websites across even though that isn't quite right. These video sharing platforms are known for their danmaku subtitle/comments system, and are to some extent aimed more at anime-otaku/ACG audiences than general audiences — for instance if you use the official Bilibili app, the not-logged-in default avatar is actually a reference to the YuruYuri anime/manga.
However, while these two video sharing platforms are associated to some extent with anime/manga/video game fans, you can find all sorts of content on either platform. You've probably seen memes that first became popular on Niconico without realizing it.
There is some small amount of English-language content on these sites, but you'll get a lot more out of Bilibili and Niconico if you speak Chinese and Japanese. Otherwise, Bilibili can be useful as a "backup" if YouTube ever stops working on NewPipe/PipePipe, or there's something uploaded there that's (no longer) available on YouTube; or Bilibili can sometimes be nice as a way to find things with Chinese subtitles if you know someone who speaks Chinese and has limited English proficiency. As said, Niconico is down right now so that isn't very useful for anything at the moment.
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I've started using PipePipe. It's basically the same as NewPipe except it also supports Bilibili and, if it weren't down right now, Niconico.
I think I know what you're trying to point to, but I do not think this is an honest portrayal.
I saw episode one of a docuseries called Deaf And... earlier today, the episode is titled "Deaf Identity". And one of the interviewees, Dr. Aaron Kelstone, professor of performing arts at NTID, said something that I find relevant to this topic.
People come here [to NTID] and find out what a Deaf identity is, then come to realize, "Oh, that's not the only thing I am." For your entire life, the focus is on your hearing. But now you can explore– “I’m also straight,” or “I’m gay,” or “I’m...” There is so much more to who you are. You discover so much more in your identity, whereas before you felt so limited. Everything is about “I can’t hear.” But now, it's not just that anymore– you are Deaf and all those other things.
Or in other words, it is audism, just this constant background oppression that pervades the lives of the Deaf people who are denied the opportunity to spend time in spaces around fellow Deaf people, that prevents many of them from forming a strong and cohesive identity outside of just being the "Deaf Island" in the "Sea of Hearies". So these Deaf people need to solve the most pressing issue(s) in their lives, before they can solve the other issues that they face. And for myself it has been similar, from the "I'm not a bisexual trans girl, it's just not possible, I'm just confused because I'm autistic and fatherless" of my teen years to the "consumption of animal products is profoundly wrong, but I cannot stop doing it until I can reliably buy and prepare my own meals" of today.
And I think on some level if we "personify" different countries, we can say a very similar thing about LGBT+ life in these countries that are being plundered by imperialism. That because of this constant deprivation that these countries face, that the actual infrastructure needed for a successful LGBT+ rights movement cannot form in these countries. This does not mean that their bigotry should be excused or left entirely unopposed, but that it should be seen in its proper context. And the proper context for Lemmy is that this is a FOSS Reddit clone and Nutomic could simply stop being an ass whenever he wants. And as long as he continues to be an ass, his actions should have consequences.
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In most languages it's easy to tell where one word ends and another begins in writing, assuming that one has spacing or interpuncts or perhaps one uses some sort of logography à la Chinese or mixed script à la Japanese. But what about in speech? People will generally not make any sort of clear stop from one word to the next, in fact people will often use reduced pronunciations when they speak.
And this is why it's important to think about the methods that speakers of a language can use to separate words from each other. The process of identifying word boundaries in speech is called speech segmentation, and this process utilizes things like phonotactics and allophony, prefixes and suffixes, syntax, set or stock phrases, common contractions and reduced forms, intonation and pauses, stress and pitch accent, and simply trying to figure out the most logical interpretation of what one has just heard from the knowledge that one already has. Surely among other methods, with multiple methods working simultaneously as redundancies.
So the way I like to test this is just by writing out a sentence, and then marking down what the telltale signs are of where one word ends and another begins. I have attached a diagram of this, and I'd find it interesting to see similar charts of your own languages, or otherwise hear about the methods that your languages use.
When I say "by sound" I am assuming that you're all developing spoken languages as opposed to signed languages, but if there is anyone here who is developing a signed language, I would love to hear more about how segmentation works in such a language.
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