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How far back in time can you understand English?

It’s a thousand years of the English language, compressed into a single blog post.

"... as his post goes on, his language gets older. A hundred years older with each jump. The spelling changes. The grammar changes. Words you know are replaced by unfamiliar words, and his attitude gets older too, as the blogger’s voice is replaced by that of a Georgian diarist, an Elizabethan pamphleteer, a medieval chronicler."

https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english

#english #language

How far back in time can you understand English?

An experiment in language change

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Reject modernity (discord/matrix)

Embrace traditiNET.SPLIT

@jimniels

>I tend to think that most fears about A.I. are best understood as fears about capitalism.

https://kottke.org/21/04/ted-chiang-fears-of-technology-are-fears-of-capitalism

Ted Chiang: Fears of Technology Are Fears of Capitalism

Writer Ted Chiang (author of the fantastic Exhalation) was recently a guest on the Ezra Klein Show. The conversation ranged widely — I enjoyed his thoughts on s

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@codl @halcy this is a new take on the one-electron universe, I'll give you that
@sakurina makes sense, since the game itself is set in the late 80s
@sakurina the newest Zach-like, Kaizen, has a few Pachinko games in it that _don't_ have the physics part but _do_ have integrated "extra" mechanics like "open a jackpot area", as visible in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1LVu156Bio
is that sort of like what you're talking about?
Kaizen: A Factory Story (Pachi-Sol: Hanemono)

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@quasi_crystals @halcy oh, this is an interesting one
@filippo I'm trying to figure out how to make a joke about you outsourcing a run at an RSA factoring challenge here...
Abnormal Mapping 181: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 — Abnormal Mapping

Surprise! One final Abnormal Mapping before the end of the year. Jackson is joined today by Erin to get thoughts down about the most baffling Game of the Year in recent history, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. It is a game that has kicked off a ton of discourse most of which talks around the actual gam

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