farmgineer

@farmgineer@nord.pub

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have a friend currently in Japan⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to walk by that building quite a bit. Place creeps me out (not for any supernatural reasons).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if programmers rewrote the English language?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  words are spelt

  Words are not fish! /s

  Spellings can help people understand a word they don’t know in some cases. This is especially true for Latin and Greek words in the language.

  and pronounced

  OK, whose pronunciation will it be? India probably turns out the most programmers who speak English these days, so enjoy your new spellings and entire new sounds and distinctions that don’t exist in your variety of English if it’s not that one already

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  Efficiency is also not always the goal, nor should it be. I also know a lot of software engineers whose ideas I wouldn’t trust running my kitchen let alone my language. You would, as other posters point out, probably be interested in conlangs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to not know who a famous person is?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no idea who “The Weekend” is.