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I'm a conlanger, so I construct languages. I'm working on a conlang set in a world where the European conquest of India was far more brutal, including the suppression of native languages. But the people get around it with pigdins, creoles, and cants.

There is one cant in our real world which I am taking as inspiration called Khalsa Bole (the speech of the Pure ie Sikhs) or Gar Gar Bole (thundering speech), used by Akali Nihang warrior-saints. The coding is funny sometimes, and sometimes just badass.

Here's one example:

savā lakh = 125,000-strong army (literal meaning) = approach of one Nihang Sikh (encoded meaning)

I'm second panel unfortunately. I'm trying to research the evolution of Indo-Aryan and Dravidian languages. But any resources outside of Romance and maybe Germanic is so hard to find, especially if you're not a linguistics student at a university...

Can we talk about this kind of discourse? Namely when lurkers post about lurking... it's damaging to the lurker reputation when people pretend to be lurkers but still actually submit posts and comments. You have no idea what it's like to be a real lurker smh

"You" was the plural of "thou." Now "you" is both singular and plural, according to context, and "thou" is an archaic form meant to indicate formality (which was done previously by pluralizing "thou" to "you" per the T-V distinction). We also have many new forms to indicate the explicit plural "you" eg. "y'all."

So maybe we use singular "they" but add a new "th'all" for the plural to keep everyone happy.

I once tripped hard and believed I died. When I came out from the trip, I still had no evidence I hadn't finished tripping, and am actually still dying as my mind fires its dying circuits in my deathbed.

But that doubt interferes with my ability to live a normal live which I am used to and strive for, so I ignore the doubt, mostly. I check myself with little tests now and then.

Same with other existential doubts in general. If you want some official names of philosophies, Nagel's absurdism, Buddhism, Vedanta, and maybe pragmatism would be applicable. Basically: don't kill yourself with doubt, keep on living with some sensibility in your senses, though keep a curious mind to keep yourself in check now and then.

Only thing I might say is that it focuses on the person only when grappling with the consequences of the bomb. That's the point of the film though, but it might seem tasteless given that many more lives were affected to a far greater extent than Oppenheimer's name itself

This is why I believe storytelling should include real world politics and be very explicit about it. Fuck escapism, embrace (good) propaganda

Meanwhile you have gamers rising up over the slightest apparent deviation from the norm, and Tolkien fans rising up about applicability not allegory

Though idk, despite the explicitness Star War fans also dig the fash vibes of the empire. I remember seeing a comment on the trailer for the Ahsoka show when they dropped the phrase "heir to the empire" or something and people said they actually felt chills wtf

There are automations. You can even add git hooks iirc. Mostly I find the lint and other code quality integrations nice to have in the IDE, since the inline results allow me to navigate directly to the code

Diffing is a lot easier too

I saw the Ahsoka show, they seemed to be copying or were inspired by the cinematography of this version of Dune...the wide aerial shots of megastructure thing. I think I like it. Part 2 seems more like a love story based on this trailer though.

It doesn't sound like something I should say, and I don't say it in public, but I have to admit I feel warm inside hearing another person say it ...it's more a emotivistic thing with a social, Wittgensteinian element: we say stuff we think others want to hear, and the harder we say stuff they wanna hear, the better we will have said it

It's like not when I say "fuck Nazis" I am literally commanding my audience to go forth and fornicate with fascists

Yes I know, just thought it was funny

Somewhat unrelated to the news but gave me a chuckle, but the judge ruling in favor of the decision is named Dhananjaya Chandrachud.

The first name translates to "conqueror of wealth" and the first part of the last name is "moon." So he's literally Moon-Chud the conqueror of wealth.