🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)Feb 24

Hey @gproenca, thanks for the follow request! Unfortunately there's not enough vibe on your profile to check, so...

You must choose one highly-specific, and utterly trivial hill you're totally willing to die on. What is it?

(if you already have one, you may share it instead of choosing a new one)

For me, it's use of the term "guys" for groups that aren't all guys. I've found myself more and more annoyed the more I talk about it. Now, I'm like at the point that I'm railing against the default-masculinity of language to random strangers at the grocery store! Also, it's not trivial! Language is important—it shapes our perceptions! How many guys have you slept with, huh? Huh??

#CAPTCHAlice

Show threadOlivia A-C
@gproenca @alice Just gonna go ahead and volunteer mine

The printing press stole my favorite letter in the English alphabet: Þ. It represents the sound we now use the abominable "th" for. It's why all those signs say "ye olde", they were using a y to substitute for þe.

I want fewer nonsensical digraphs! Down with th, down with ch, give me unique letters for these clearly unique sounds!

While we are at it, x and q don't make unique sounds, so kill them. C only makes a unique sound when used with ch, so kill that and replace it with a letter for that sound.
Feb 24 at 9:21amWeb
Show threadSimon BrookeFeb 24
@LivInTheLookingGlass @alice @gproenca And for heaven's sake bring back Yogh (Ȝ). It's why no English person knows how to pronounce Dalȝiel, Menȝies,Cockenȝie, Kirkgunȝeon or Ȝetland.
Show threadLeon BarrettFeb 24
@LivInTheLookingGlass @alice @gproenca Have you read the very old essay, Meihem in Ce Klasrum? I love it, and it takes your ideas and runs with them.
Meihem In Ce Klasrum

Show threadKen ButlerFeb 24
@LivInTheLookingGlass @alice @gproenca you mean, like č or š?
Show threadAlfred M. SzmidtFeb 24

@LivInTheLookingGlass ah you poor bastard, learn some Polish before you open your damn yapp...

@alice @gproenca

Show threadLuke BergenFeb 24

@LivInTheLookingGlass @alice @gproenca you've hit my info dump trigger. Making a conlang and this is one of those things I'm "fixing" (at least it feels better to me).
- c says "sh" (already have k for "can" sound).
- j makes the "s" in leisure.
- neither "th" sound at all (it's hard for non-English folks and uncommon in most languages, apparently).
- "ch" sound comes from the (now natural) diphthong "tc" ("t" gliding fast into "sh" kind of sounds like this, right?).
- same for the "j" in "judge". That's now "dj" like the voiced version of "tc".

There's more. But I'll exercise at least _some_ self-restraint 😁

Show threadEric LawtonFeb 24

@LivInTheLookingGlass

We need glottal stops ɂɁ because my last name Lawɂn and the word gloɂl both have them, not “t”, in my language (northwest English—Lancashire)

@alice @gproenca

Show threadPhil Thane ✅Feb 24
@LivInTheLookingGlass
I've spent 70 years explaining how to spell/pronounce my surname, Thane. So yeah bring back 'thorn'
@alice @gproenca
Show threadSteven G. HarmsFeb 25

@LivInTheLookingGlass @alice @gproenca I speak multiple Romance languages and one other Germanic and teaching my son to read is an exercise in humiliation.

The sounds we need exist: thorn, chi, wynn…Latin is so not optimal

Show threadMark WhybirdFeb 25

@LivInTheLookingGlass @gproenca @alice Hoping everyone in this chat has already heard of YouTuber RobWords, and especially the “Hardcore Thorn” merch!

https://robwords.com