demetrius

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by demetrius 1mo ago
I'm not sure the quoted statement is true. Proofreading like "point to problems in the text", if you fix the problems yourself and don't copy-paste the solutions given to you, should still be safe, shouldn't it? So
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by demetrius 2mo ago
> Cyrillic scripts like Russian and Ukrainian are supported via GNU Unifont, along with Arabic and Hebrew. So much for proper typography... I guess it's still useful for an ocasional Cyrillic word inside an English text, but reading
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by demetrius 2mo ago
No, it's not. You're confusing a language (the way people speak) and a literary tradition (the way people write). When ancestors of Russians borrowed Church Slavonic writing, they were already speaking another Slavic language, O
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by demetrius 2mo ago
Our Belarusian teacher actually ш/т wrote it like that, I got it from her. It’s not very common in Belarus, either. I think the real strongholds of this style are Serbia and [North] Macedonia. They even underline и and write a line ove
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by demetrius 2mo ago
I like writing in cursive, but I don’t see backtracking as a problem. I backtrack quite a lot in Cyrillic, even in Russian, e.g. I always underline ш and write a line over т (which looks like m) to distinguish them (otherwise they look quit
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by demetrius 3mo ago
So what? Old French Bretaigne referred both to Britain and Brittany, Old French Russie referred to both Russia (maybe, haven't done research on this) and Ruthenia. But we're not speaking Old French, we're speaking 21-century
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by demetrius 3mo ago
> But adopting Latin script would help Ukraine "move away" from Russia even more. That might be true, but Latin script is not a neutral option. It has its own problematic history in Ukraine. Historically, Latin script for Ukrai
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by demetrius 3mo ago
> Ukraine is the Russia (882-1237) Only in the world where Britain is in France. Ukraine traces its lineage to Ruthenia (Русь), not to Russia (Росія). These words are related etymologically, but so are Brittany and Britain, or Cornouaill
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by demetrius 3mo ago
Cyrillic didn't prevent Bulgaria from joining EU, why should it be a problem for Ukraine?
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by demetrius 3mo ago
Oh come on, the term itself is political. It has always been political everywhere: same in Russia and Ukraine. You can't "politically charge" a term that has always been political. The concept of "native language" i
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by demetrius 3mo ago
"Native speaker" is not a very useful term: it combines a lot of criteria (first acquired language, language you know best, language you identify with, language of your parents, language of your ethnic group etc.), and each of the
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by demetrius 5mo ago
The problem is, most of these bindings are out-of-date. Delphi from 2012, Basic from 2002, D from 2016. wxRuby is a dead link. wxAda was already dead in 2009, as the discussion I can google suggests. So, if you use wxWidgets, you probably h
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by demetrius 9mo ago
LibreOffice Calc has an option to force English function names regardless of the current localization. I guess Excel should have something similar, too¹. Fun fact: in European and Brazilian Portuguese, the same function names can refer to d
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by demetrius 9mo ago
It kinda is? Most Classical Chinese and Egyptian words follow the principle "deficient phonetic + semantic part", it's just that Chinese characters are split into neat squares because most Classical Chinese words are exactly
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by demetrius 9mo ago
Rhyme dictionaries describe Middle Chinese, not Old Chinese. Old Chinese involves much more guesswork.
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by demetrius 9mo ago
Some modern adaptations of his transcription do, however. E.g. Modern Japanese Grammar: A Practical Guide uses the transcription “sensee” (they consistently don’t use macrons in this book: e.g. they use oo for ō, etc.). Hepburn didn’t write
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by demetrius 9mo ago
> Having a one-to-one romanization for each Hiragana phonetic is far more logical for learners It depends on the learner’s (and textbook author’s) goals. Sometimes, having a phonetic transcription of the more common pronunciation is a mo
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by demetrius 9mo ago
Also, forbid apostrophes, quotation marks and non-cp1252 characters in the message text, like my bank's website does. Apparently to prevent SQL injections.
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by demetrius 11mo ago
Russian writer Leonid Kaganov had this idea back in 2021, with an added twist that he also put the printer in his bathroom: https://lleo.me/dnevnik/2021/11/30
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by demetrius 11mo ago
But the capitalisation is unexpected. While sometimes people use all-caps for family names (I think it’s French tradition?), I think it looks quite out-of-place and confusing in this case.
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by demetrius 1y ago
It treats any of my clicks as an attempt to select text, and draws everything with blue selection overlay (Firefox on Windows). Otherwise, looks cool!
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by demetrius 1y ago
> English regularly violates its own rules That's true for any human language. E.g. in Russian, adjectives use the gender, case and plurality of a noun, until they suddenly don't. > English steals aggressively from other lan
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by demetrius 1y ago
Iota subscript is a 12-century invention. Rough and smooth breathings (ἁ for ha, ἀ for a) are much older Greek diacritics. For another example of classical diacritics, see apices in Latin (á for long a).
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by demetrius 1y ago
> to dramatize what would otherwise be a dry spelling shift I don't think that's how it was developed, though. I really doubt there are real-world cases where cwen was scrubbed and queen written above it (correct me if I'm
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by demetrius 1y ago
The page below, in the “Summary” section, has a version in normal font, starting with “Tân niên” (Also, interestingly, there is a version in Chinese characters. Looks like the whole phrase is a borrowing from Classical Chinese? Probably the
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by demetrius 1y ago
I don't know why. It works for me. As an alternative, you can go to Wikipedia and paste File:Đối - Tết 2009.jpg into the search bar.
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by demetrius 1y ago
I think "Same Sizer" looks ugly because characters are stretched mechanically, so each line has different width. Ideally, the lines should all keep their widths, and the position should be stretched. I think a better application o
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by demetrius 1y ago
+1, my only interaction with Pocket is annoyance that I had to remove it from my toolbar every time I've installed Firefox on a new computer. Good riddance.
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by demetrius 1y ago
Doesn't seem to work with non-English wikis? At least https://rpg.breezewiki.com/ru/wiki/ doesn't work.
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by demetrius 2y ago
> The Chinese "text" unification was done two millennials ago, but people "speak" differently of every individual "character", as dialects or mutually unintelligible or whatever. It's like Latin in Midd

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