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Just found a word with the worst Deseret spelling: 𐐸𐐴𐑉 ‘hire’

Besides using 𐑾 just for the happY vowel followed by schwa, I think its conventional use should extend to all the occurrences of 𐑘𐑩 that aren’t result of weakening of 𐑿 because this is really a centering diphthong whose varying phonetic realization is of no phonemic consequence. You may prefer to transcribe it as /ɪ̯ə/ or /jə/ just like you may use either /aɪ̯/ or /aj/ for 𐑲.

I want to spell it 𐑥𐑦𐑤𐑾𐑯 ‘million’ and 𐑚𐑦𐑤𐑽𐑛 ‘billiard’. I believe the former is better than 𐑥𐑦𐑤𐑘𐑩𐑯, but the latter unfortunately shows the problem with that idea, namely that 𐑽 suggests the NEAR vowel and 𐑢𐑽𐑛 ‘weird’ might not rhyme with 𐑝𐑦𐑯𐑘𐑼𐑛 ‘vineyard’ (< 𐑝𐑲𐑯​+​𐑘𐑸𐑛).

Turky 
Turkie 
Turchy

choose one

why does the word ‘jargon’ start with an affricate in English

I briefly expressed my amazement elsewhere long time ago, but I still can’t get over how cool the spelling 花の窟屋 Hana no Iwaya is.

There is this word いわや meaning a cave or grotto. This is a native Japanese word and 窟 (the same 窟 as in 洞窟 どうくつ) is a kanji that has this word as a kun'yomi. It is, however, quite transparent etymologically and the morphemes it’s made of are also independent words which have well established kanji⁠—​岩 いわ ‘rock’ and 屋 や ‘room, house’⁠—​so the most obvious kanji spelling of it is actually the kun-kun compound 岩屋 rather than 窟. Nevertheless there are some proper names that spell it 窟屋, that is using 窟 but suffixed with 屋 functioning similarly to okurigana that gives part of the reading in addition to the kanji the whole word is written with.

𐑞 𐑼𐑦𐑡𐑦𐑯𐑩𐑤 𐑒𐑰-𐑒𐑸𐑛 𐑕𐑧𐑟: “𐑤𐑻𐑯 𐑞 𐑨𐑤𐑓𐑩𐑚𐑧𐑑 𐑦𐑯 𐑐𐑺𐑟, 𐑨𐑟 𐑤𐑦𐑕𐑑𐑩𐑛 𐑓 𐑮𐑲𐑑𐑼𐑟”. 𐑞𐑨𐑑 𐑦𐑟 𐑑 𐑕𐑱, 𐑞 𐑩𐑒𐑕𐑧𐑐𐑑𐑩𐑛 𐑹𐑛𐑼 𐑝 𐑤𐑧𐑑𐑼𐑟 𐑦𐑟: 𐑐, 𐑚, 𐑑, 𐑛, 𐑒, 𐑜 𐑯 𐑕𐑴 𐑪𐑯.  𐑞 𐑯𐑿𐑼 𐑒𐑰 𐑦𐑟 𐑐𐑺𐑛 𐑦𐑯 𐑞 𐑕𐑱𐑥 𐑢𐑱.  𐑦𐑑𐑕 𐑴𐑯𐑤𐑦 𐑛𐑦𐑓𐑼𐑩𐑯𐑕 𐑦𐑟 𐑦𐑯 𐑴𐑥𐑦𐑑𐑦𐑙 7 𐑐𐑮𐑦𐑯𐑑𐑼𐑟’ 𐑒𐑪𐑥𐑐𐑬𐑯𐑛𐑟 𐑝 𐑩 𐑝𐑬𐑩𐑤 𐑡𐑶𐑯𐑛 𐑑 𐑩 𐑒𐑪𐑯𐑕𐑩𐑯𐑩𐑯𐑑, 𐑢𐑦𐑗 𐑒𐑨𐑯 𐑴𐑯𐑤𐑦 𐑚𐑰 𐑑𐑲𐑐𐑮𐑦𐑑𐑩𐑯 𐑨𐑟 𐑕𐑧𐑐𐑼𐑩𐑑 𐑤𐑧𐑑𐑼𐑟.  𐑞𐑱 𐑢𐑦𐑤 𐑝 𐑒𐑹𐑕 𐑒𐑩𐑯𐑑𐑦𐑯𐑿 𐑑 𐑚𐑰 𐑡𐑶𐑯𐑛 𐑦𐑯 𐑮𐑲𐑑𐑦𐑙.  𐑣𐑬𐑧𐑝𐑼 𐑮𐑦𐑑𐑩𐑯, 𐑞𐑱 𐑕𐑑𐑨𐑯𐑛 𐑓 2 𐑛𐑦𐑕𐑑𐑦𐑙[𐑒]𐑑 𐑕𐑬𐑯𐑛𐑟. 

𐑝 𐑞 𐑕𐑴-𐑒𐑷𐑤𐑛 ·𐑒𐑪𐑥𐑐𐑬𐑯𐑛𐑟, 𐑴𐑯𐑤𐑦 ·𐑾 𐑦𐑟 𐑮𐑦𐑑𐑱𐑯𐑛, 𐑚𐑰𐑦𐑙 𐑮𐑦𐑜𐑸𐑛𐑩𐑛 𐑨𐑟 𐑩 𐑝𐑬𐑩𐑤-𐑛𐑦𐑓𐑔𐑪𐑙 𐑯 𐑯𐑨𐑮𐑴 𐑦𐑯𐑳𐑓 𐑓 𐑰𐑝𐑩𐑯𐑤𐑦 𐑕𐑐𐑱𐑕𐑑 𐑤𐑧𐑑𐑼𐑟 𐑦𐑯 𐑑𐑲𐑐𐑮𐑲𐑑𐑦𐑙.  𐑦𐑑 𐑦𐑟 𐑞 𐑤𐑭𐑕𐑑 𐑤𐑧𐑑𐑼 𐑝 𐑞 43 𐑦𐑯 𐑞 ·𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯 𐑨𐑤𐑓𐑩𐑚𐑧𐑑, 𐑞 𐑒𐑩𐑥𐑐𐑤𐑰𐑑 [𐑨]𐑤𐑓𐑩𐑚𐑧𐑑 𐑓 𐑕𐑐𐑧𐑤𐑦𐑙 𐑹 𐑦𐑯𐑛𐑧𐑒𐑕𐑦𐑙 𐑦𐑯 ·𐑦𐑙𐑜𐑤𐑦𐑖.

— 𐑒𐑦𐑙𐑟𐑤𐑦 𐑮𐑰𐑛, 𐑖𐑭-𐑕𐑒𐑮𐑦𐑐𐑑, 𐑦𐑖𐑵 3, 𐑕𐑐𐑮𐑦𐑙 1964.

I don’t think original artists should have any say in their artwork being used to train AI models when said artwork was publicly circulated and it’s used for research and furthers the technology itself. But outright selling AI-generated imagery and making money out of the actual content of the model firmly puts you in the asshole category no matter how much work you put into engineering your prompts. Kindly cease and desist.

Oh no, tumblr announced removal of ‘legacy’ post editor. I suppose I don’t have to repeat myself explaining what I don’t like about it. I really need to put up some self-hosted shit blog at some point.

I knew I was up to some trouble when I used Storable frozen arrays as hash keys, but it seemed to work fine. One and a half year later I don’t really remember how the script works and suddenly I’m getting a different representation of exactly the same value…

thaw(pack'H*','050b02000000041704f09091840a037468650a000880');
thaw(pack'H*','050b02000000041704f090918417037468650a000880');

Apparently substr of a string containing only ASCII characters removes UTF8 flag from it? Ouch.

$ perl -Mutf8 -lwe 'a($x="ąbc");a($x=substr$x,1);a($x=substr$x,0);sub a{print int(utf8::is_utf8($_[0]))}'
==> 1 1 0 

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It’s been a long time since we had so hardcore time zone drama.
Thanks Lebanon.