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(DIR) Post #AxZfSpUdyf551T5Zg0 by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T21:35:41Z
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as someone who cannot spell (like, at a diagnosable level), one thing that annoys me with spellcheckers is how they don't distinguish "you spelled that wrong" and "that's not a word, according to some fancy dictionary"
(DIR) Post #AxZffeoJ0WBRefP0CG by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T21:38:04Z
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I want my spellcheck to tell me if misspelled "immunizer", not if the OED agrees that it's a word.
(DIR) Post #AxZfuGv27LtVttWAT2 by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T21:40:44Z
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I understand how we got here: spellcheckers as a feature were originally intended for word processing: ie, writing very professional documents.
(DIR) Post #AxZfz4cDHzuHBp0LVQ by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T21:41:31Z
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they are naturally going to skew towards a professional voice. and the word processors we use today are descended from those programs, as later products/open source implementations try to be similar to existing solutions
(DIR) Post #AxZg4tfusUMuzqVttg by psilocervine@gamedev.lgbt
2025-08-26T21:42:32Z
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@foone it's a real pain when you are, for instance, a fantasy or scifi writer
(DIR) Post #AxZgcnFhGSMovEPdrM by cerement@social.targaryen.house
2025-08-26T21:48:40Z
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@foone “Ode to a Spell Checker”https://www.thoughtco.com/spell-checker-poem-by-mark-eckman-1692348
(DIR) Post #AxZgh6GIWqUj2PkOMi by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T21:49:32Z
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but I talk very unprofessionally on the internet. I write a LOT on multiple platforms, and I do it with a more casual tone. so as long as the reader knows what I mean when I say "immunizer", it absolutely doesn't matter if the Académie Anglais says it's a word or not
(DIR) Post #AxZgkdU1T8bCwOqwfA by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T21:49:49Z
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I need a knob on the side of my spellchecker that lets me set it from formal to casual.
(DIR) Post #AxZgqnQhOwuzWiEgW8 by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T21:51:11Z
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it's annoying because the main feedback we have with spellcheckers is the "add to dictionary" feature, which absolutely won't help with this
(DIR) Post #AxZgyYC7ve40ao7L5E by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T21:52:43Z
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because it's not like I'm using a small specialized vocabulary that I can add once and it'll never be a problem again, I'm instead being freer with how I coin words. which means it's a bunch of new words each time!
(DIR) Post #AxZh2qBGzxQvXBlPgO by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T21:53:23Z
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even with how much I write, I might not have ever used the word "immunizer" before, and I may never again!
(DIR) Post #AxZh5vQ5yZmKeTARns by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T21:53:36Z
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at least, if I hadn't massively made that more likely by making this rant about it
(DIR) Post #AxZhL6hgJ1yHzVdHMG by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
2025-08-26T21:57:09.173900Z
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@foone reminds me of why I wish I could load up something like wiktionary so my spellchecker knows about notorious-enough slang.
(DIR) Post #AxZhPtQF73UiFQl2uW by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T21:57:36Z
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the funny thing is that this actually sounds like it would be a perfect application of large language models, before that tool got overpopularized into fracal grift
(DIR) Post #AxZhW7f952lm9QhOjI by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T21:58:48Z
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but "a spellcheck that can tell the difference between incorrectly-spelled words and not-in-dictionary words" seems like it would be eminently solvable by an LLM trained on a casual internet forum.
(DIR) Post #AxZhZSi9HNASIghDeK by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T21:59:06Z
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just, don't use it to rewrite my words. just tell me when I spelled them correctly.
(DIR) Post #AxZheL74xIYKBSgOR6 by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T21:59:51Z
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the ultimate litmus test would be its ability to determine when I'm using a not-in-the-dictionary-term like "immunizer" but /I've spelled it wrong/
(DIR) Post #AxZhi8F0ktWxQ7CXvU by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T22:00:24Z
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can you tell me how to spell immunizer when I've typed immunazer?
(DIR) Post #AxZhmwqYXyd5Wr3jou by SoftwareTheron@mas.to
2025-08-26T22:00:31Z
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@foone *Excellent* point. Kudos!
(DIR) Post #AxZhqKAIJ3bOiatx6O by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T22:02:00Z
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which is the specific type of dyslexia I have: my brain doesn't seem to store vowels of words, and I end up guessing them phonetically.
(DIR) Post #AxZhxjveunDeePal9c by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T22:03:42Z
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or possibly I am only remembering words phonetically. I'm not sure, I haven't fully reversed my dyslexia yet.
(DIR) Post #AxZi2mu3HiufK4FObY by Canageek@wandering.shop
2025-08-26T22:04:37Z
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@foone I am now having questions about if that could be genetic and if that's why Hebrew is like that
(DIR) Post #AxZi74RtzWRqtn7feq by cinebox@masto.hackers.town
2025-08-26T22:05:17Z
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@foone yes, same!Like even if I know how to spell a word I’ll sometimes hit the wrong vowel key even if its on the other side of the keyboard
(DIR) Post #AxZiAN3BHxTtSU8K5Q by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
2025-08-26T22:06:24.760532Z
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@foone also I wish more spellchecker would care a bit about more than just purely spelling, like ancient Unix typo(1) would warn about doubled-words (and rare spellings, probably useful to get consistent between say grey and gray) which happens from time to time to me, and I so wish I would have that in modern spell checkers…
(DIR) Post #AxZiC4AwR54tUxZVGC by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T22:06:08Z
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so words like the classically difficult "separate" are basically a nightmare for me, because the way english vowels work means it's basically impossible to tell if that word should be spelled "s[ae]pp?[ae]rr?[ae]?tt[e]?"
(DIR) Post #AxZiFyeOv2R1WPDRmC by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T22:06:43Z
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speaking of difficulty in communicating well on the internet, hot tip:don't try to explain things with a regex
(DIR) Post #AxZiJpF9pvFhVKFA6y by vurpo@chitter.xyz
2025-08-26T22:07:27Z
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@foone isn't this how arabic works? i'm not sure, i don't speak the language, but i've heard this is part of its ortography
(DIR) Post #AxZiNLgJgmVaygcvi4 by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T22:07:49Z
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this is far from the first time in my life that I have been too much of a Fucking Programmer* to communicate clearly. it's a running theme. * not to be confused with a fucking programmer, aka qdot
(DIR) Post #AxZiQzPoPral4wdwMS by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T22:08:43Z
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but yeah my point was that in "separate" the As and Es could easily be the other way around, and that last E could be there or not
(DIR) Post #AxZiUy8f6XdWHHWEQC by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T22:09:19Z
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I've never understood why english has so many silent Es at the end of words. silly practice if you ask me. why would anyone have a silent E at the end of her name?
(DIR) Post #AxZiYrZxR3fV5j8vvU by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T22:10:08Z
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speaking of spellchecking woes:"english" is flagged up as misspelled. WRONG. It is /incorrectly capitalized/, a different grammar mistake!
(DIR) Post #AxZicAsU8hIPoYO7lY by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T22:10:35Z
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and it is not one that is present in later modern IRC english, my native english dialect.
(DIR) Post #AxZiisVUq85Sripdgm by ann3nova@corteximplant.com
2025-08-26T22:12:14Z
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@foone ...Mine is pronounced "anna". :)
(DIR) Post #AxZioWcL8bWciIj2wq by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T22:13:14Z
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I often write in a slightly more formal dialect with the correct capitalization, I'm well familiar with it, but when I am just talking?I speak IRC english: capitalization isn't used (for this). we don't respect Formal Nouns
(DIR) Post #AxZirur9TU9Sl3GqBs by juandesant@mathstodon.xyz
2025-08-26T22:13:45Z
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@foone FWIW, I got it 😉
(DIR) Post #AxZj3ySBvQdNOFLT8K by jbrownesq@mastodon.social
2025-08-26T22:15:54Z
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@foone bourgeois sophistry, lol.
(DIR) Post #AxZjDq3tyqqQG8giEy by McCrankyface@beige.party
2025-08-26T22:17:49Z
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@foone because Jane and Jan are different names with different pronunciations. It's the "e" that tells you how the "a" is pronounced.
(DIR) Post #AxZjez5WWt9Q4XOGvY by boghan@chaos.social
2025-08-26T22:22:43Z
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@foone i understood :3
(DIR) Post #AxZjmRE0JeRlMcuZHs by __Styx__@piaille.fr
2025-08-26T22:23:59Z
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@foone i've read somewhere that English is a very bad language for dyslexia. Since its impossible to know a word pronunciation at first glance without already having encountered it. And since some dys misplaced / read some part of words, it becomes hostile the dys reader that is neither comfortable reading or writing it.I know that learning other languages can re-write some neural pathways, but did you ever felt a foreign language was easier for you because it's not a guessing game of spelling Bee 🐝 ?
(DIR) Post #AxZjrw9sjWlWkabahk by vurpo@chitter.xyz
2025-08-26T22:25:05Z
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@foone funny phenomenon: in finnish many country names and language names are spelled exactly the same as each other, but the country is capitalized while the language isn't (of course context also helps so you're not always forced to capitalize on irc)
(DIR) Post #AxZl82lu0sD5qfdKCm by log@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-08-26T22:39:03Z
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@foone Sounds like you need a spellchecker that has a rules-based engine that can analyze a portmanteauvian neologiccretion to see if the word parts are being joined correctly.Like if I invent a cocktail that is served in a highball glass, and call it a something-tini, that should be flagged.Human spellcheckers can do this easily. NLP checkers are harder to program.P.S. An immunazer is a special circumstance of immunizer, in which the immunizing effect is entrained into a collimated beam.
(DIR) Post #AxZlaQGYFstSp6V8gi by TechEd@techhub.social
2025-08-26T22:44:22Z
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@foone In a vowel-consonant-e syllable, the letter ‘e’ gives the vowel a long sound. Some people say that a long vowel says it’s name. Example: time. This is often called a v-c-e syllable.In a vowel-consonant syllable. The vowel has a short sound like in apple, Ed, igloo, octopus or up. This is often called a ‘closed’ syllable. Example: Tim
(DIR) Post #AxZm1iKzApnUgpaZVY by log@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-08-26T22:49:11Z
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@foone Because English has 20 vowels, and has to jam all that into a Latin alphabet with no diacritics or combining marks, where the sounds of each letter combination shift between countries or centuries.
(DIR) Post #AxZm53Sx4iAJ5TuMAC by miniBill@mastodon.uno
2025-08-26T22:49:35Z
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@foone [hey, do you want a typo notice?]
(DIR) Post #AxZmENSw5NadioLVNw by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T22:51:37Z
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@miniBill sure
(DIR) Post #AxZmHdkdzbmP6EBV20 by miniBill@mastodon.uno
2025-08-26T22:51:59Z
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@foone "fracal" is a misspelling of "fractal"
(DIR) Post #AxZmN2eWpywHmGtqVc by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T22:53:04Z
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@gabboman exactly! obvious compound word. "piss" + suffix "-mancer". totally clear
(DIR) Post #AxZmQCs7IcGgLAlSts by bluGill@fedia.io
2025-08-26T22:36:08+00:00
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@foone sounds like you have disgraphia like me. Not to be confused with dyslexia.
(DIR) Post #AxZmQDcCXH8Ce6KGjQ by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T22:53:26Z
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@bluGill oh I thought disgraphia was a type of dyslexia?
(DIR) Post #AxZmUfZwVfJqX1OMWu by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T22:54:29Z
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@__Styx__ yeah, with the way my brain remembers words, this wouldn't be a problem in a language with a phonetic writing system.
(DIR) Post #AxZmaXfWpc4Njknxlw by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T22:55:28Z
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@jbrownesq when the revolution comes, I will be proud to be known as Comrade Foon
(DIR) Post #AxZmkAKaSJ2sFgbAW0 by mattmcirvin@mathstodon.xyz
2025-08-26T22:57:13Z
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@foone so, A bunch of writing systems work this way (like Hebrew or Arabic without vowel marks) so you're probably not the only one
(DIR) Post #AxZnDiojJdhPbgn6qO by lp0_on_fire@social.linux.pizza
2025-08-26T23:02:37Z
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@foone, what? It's perfectly clear.(Although not without error – that 3rd ‘?’ shouldn't be there.)
(DIR) Post #AxZoOfA1LpchPDWxqC by jbrownesq@mastodon.social
2025-08-26T23:15:46Z
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@foone its gonna have to come pretty soon methinks, with or without those silent Es.
(DIR) Post #AxZpFg6oYX8Vh8JJh2 by lp0_on_fire@social.linux.pizza
2025-08-26T23:25:23Z
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@foone, well, consider “rat” and “rate”, and “the rats went through the roof”.As for silent ‘e’s at the end of (in particular) surnames – I recall hearing about it being a class/status thing and also something about it going back to the Norman French and their influence in England. (It's probably from https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b012qtbf – no idea if you can listen to that, though you definitely can't without an account).
(DIR) Post #AxZpJZsJfvKbWFO9h2 by baishen@mastodon.online
2025-08-26T23:25:47Z
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@foone I always have to remind myself that there's "a rat" in separate.
(DIR) Post #AxZpwi612lmCJGSLrM by Lady_Noremon@mas.to
2025-08-26T23:33:10Z
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@foone Well, we could start pronouncing it like résumé 👀
(DIR) Post #AxZqheXG6EdgsRaCKe by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T23:41:41Z
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someday I'll write more about Late Modern IRC English. I talked about it in a tumblr post once about how I was writing a character to talk in an exaggerated "what if this movement kept going for another 50 years" kind of hypothetical Future IRC English, but it'd be useful to try and describe features of it.
(DIR) Post #AxZqvYrxxjO9MHtuHg by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T23:44:09Z
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also I have a theory about the names being the only thing capitalized: I think it's because of the BDSM kinksters. they had a thing about capitalization of names because they're using capitalization as external signalling: dominants have UppercaseNames, submissives have lowercasenames{UN}
(DIR) Post #AxZr1FhCA9WFd6Zn0K by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T23:45:13Z
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there were a bunch of those channels with a bunch of people on your efnets and dalnets, and they had a strict netiquette around capitalizing names correctly: you capitalize them how the user has entered their name, and no other way. tab complete defaults to doing that in most clients
(DIR) Post #AxZr4kkv8eR8pUzKRE by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T23:45:35Z
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I think that just leaked out into the wider IRC world and became a standard feature of Later Modern IRC English.
(DIR) Post #AxZr8KKhJvMy2SQWO0 by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T23:46:15Z
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someone should be studying this. I assume plenty of people are, actually. IRC logs exist going back decades, showing how people talked then.
(DIR) Post #AxZrBWXeNtNWly0f44 by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T23:46:57Z
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anyway I've been mad at the incorrect-capitalization-is-marked-as-misspelled issue since, like, 2005?
(DIR) Post #AxZrFQyH2OT0ecKLA0 by finitebaffle@mas.to
2025-08-26T23:47:10Z
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@foone helluva argument for CamelCase but I’ll buy it.
(DIR) Post #AxZrIbYC9zf0KmdnMW by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T23:47:51Z
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I've once fixed it. but it's one of those things where it's easy-but-annoying to fix in one application. it's a lot harder to keep this shit working across platforms and versions and all that. so recently I just ignore the problem and seethe.
(DIR) Post #AxZrMzJjjniFChy5aa by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T23:49:04Z
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and sometimes I misspell words because I assume it's mad that I didn't capitalize it, but it actually means "germeny is spelled with an 'a' "
(DIR) Post #AxZrWPQg1WGanLhsUC by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T23:50:52Z
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@Lady_Noremon as someone with a name that's not pronounced Fooné, I'm not a fan of this idea
(DIR) Post #AxZraDox7pubwysb5c by cxberger@mastodon.boiler.social
2025-08-26T23:50:55Z
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@foone spellchecker that exclusively gives info in that format. does not tell you where the letter should be, just that you messed it up. completely unusable for any word longer than like 10 letters
(DIR) Post #AxZrg4hjvspZPjISkC by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T23:52:25Z
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@cxberger god I'd love a spellchecker that could tell me which letter is spelled wrong
(DIR) Post #AxZrjU426R2GvyLkHo by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T23:53:12Z
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while I'm ranting about spellchecker features I want: I want a keyboard key for "replace the last incorrect spelled word with the top result"
(DIR) Post #AxZrsDQ3MD6PuvoTDc by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T23:54:50Z
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because again, I type a lot. I type sloppy and fast*, and I'd love to not have to take my hands off the keyboard to right click and adjust the word I misspelled. But I don't know any spellchecker engines that do this and it'd be a slight nightmare to hack in * I'm legally required to make the joke "like I make love *eyebrows*"
(DIR) Post #AxZrvT1ZnHY3BVum6y by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T23:55:01Z
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ugh I know how to do it but I don't want to it'd be too jank
(DIR) Post #AxZrzE817S928xii00 by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T23:55:58Z
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also, since I was reminded, another feature of late modern IRC english: it uses *roleplay* and smilies :), not emoji. They don't exist yet, and unicode barely works most places.
(DIR) Post #AxZs33QIrWaq6J69uC by tautology@infosec.exchange
2025-08-26T23:56:34Z
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@foone that's thanks to the Middle English phrase of the language, when the vowel stopped being pronounced.Over here sprogs are taught it as the "magic e", which basically lengthens the previous vowel and may turn it into a dipthong.-rate's a bad example as that uses a dipthong in standard English: -rate (ɹeɪt)[1] is different to -rat (ɹæt)[1] ɹeːt in my accent.
(DIR) Post #AxZsFyu6yZNRqiCm4e by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-26T23:59:04Z
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today I can easily type résumé but back in late modern IRC english, my keyboard couldn't type it half the time and the other half of the time your IRC client can't even display it, so unless you want résumé or worse, you type "resume". (yes this sucks for anyone not speaking english why do you ask?)
(DIR) Post #AxZsNYRfEVt66aVgzA by davidrisney@infosec.exchange
2025-08-27T00:00:26Z
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@foone that's interesting! I have trouble remembering how to spell various words and I started coming up with different pronunciations that I only say to myself internally that voice the silent letters and use an unambiguous vowel sound. Somehow specific and incorrect word pronunciations are easier for me to remember than actually how to spell words.
(DIR) Post #AxZseuL9580uvxjgDA by Yuki@groupe-tazor.com
2025-08-27T00:04:01.510Z
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@foone@digipres.club that or you need to agree everyone uses the same charsetthis was especially wonky during the transition to UTF-8
(DIR) Post #AxZt4oRjcJXeBTAcS0 by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-27T00:08:15Z
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@davidrisney oh yeah I do that too, I say them wrong in my head so I'll be able to remember how to spell them
(DIR) Post #AxZt8qftH3PWFliSDw by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-27T00:08:57Z
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@rey god yeah
(DIR) Post #AxZtOhGM2E47hEKROa by lp0_on_fire@social.linux.pizza
2025-08-27T00:11:47Z
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@foone, seems to me that that both grew an extra acute accent and lost its accent(s) after being assimilated into American English.Anyway. I hereby assert that the correct spelling is “CV”.
(DIR) Post #AxZtfZmn5RWhQjY7Au by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
2025-08-27T00:15:18.452077Z
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@foone Huh interesting, on my side of things unicode has been fine for something like ~8 years where the last channels I knew using stuff like latin-1 finally switched to utf-8.8 years being of course still quite recent given IRC's age.But people still tend to avoid unicode emojis in IRC, but I think it's mostly because those renders very badly in small fonts specially monochrome ones.
(DIR) Post #AxZunXnUSreLX7EvWy by swordlace@www.librepunk.club
2025-08-27T00:27:27Z
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@foone I'm pretty sure I still have some of my chat logs from the 1900s
(DIR) Post #AxZvreFWW928elsBAe by kiranc@aus.social
2025-08-27T00:39:26Z
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@foone @bluGill I think they got broken up into separate things because dyspraxia isn't always caused by language processing issues (which is the root cause of dyslexia). Other causes are motor issues and spacial impairment issues. People with ADHD, for example, can have a lot of issues writing without any major language processing issues.
(DIR) Post #AxZwl7z9f3vaoAfgFU by janusfox@animal.business
2025-08-27T00:49:26Z
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@foone @rey * and : posing for me!
(DIR) Post #AxZz94bw3in5CVMA5Y by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-27T01:16:14Z
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@kiranc @bluGill and I do have ADHD, which is certainly related to my spelling problems
(DIR) Post #Axa0AWjP5qHKet6fuC by kiranc@aus.social
2025-08-27T01:27:42Z
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@foone @bluGill Same with me, which I meant to write in my previous post, except, well...
(DIR) Post #Axa3pbjtg7AVvScMpU by viraptor@cyberplace.social
2025-08-27T02:08:26Z
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@fooneI wonder if that has some overlap with people writing #aave which will have lots of words not in the usual dictionary / similar "new, evolved words" issue.
(DIR) Post #AxaBkGaVgsHmVlBvBw by RueNahcMohr@infosec.exchange
2025-08-27T03:37:27Z
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@foone are there any channels alive out there anymore. Everything I was on died, and I couldn't stand talking to myself anymore.
(DIR) Post #AxaBuCPq3blYT2w652 by RueNahcMohr@infosec.exchange
2025-08-27T03:39:12Z
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@foone but not a switch... hmmmm...
(DIR) Post #AxaTRq6dD2VMLEZwKO by mgleadow@mastodon.green
2025-08-27T06:55:44Z
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@foone I'm intrigued, how does a switch capitalise?Or are they a sWiTcH?
(DIR) Post #AxaTpQZvlsdW7TWyyO by pipe_dreams@mstdn.social
2025-08-27T06:59:58Z
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@foone maybe keep the activities separate for more clarity?
(DIR) Post #AxaWrnKqQv1h8jILPU by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-27T07:34:07Z
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@mgleadow they change their name's capitalization based on the role they're currently playing, I think
(DIR) Post #AxaYinzoo4K4UXIkAS by jamesoff@mastodon.jamesoff.net
2025-08-27T07:54:49Z
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@foone Have you seen Because Internet? https://gretchenmcculloch.com/book/ I found it really interesting and also was able to see both myself and my parents in different chapters of it
(DIR) Post #AxaagUZoEjcnamA0dU by brouhaha@mastodon.social
2025-08-27T08:16:52Z
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@foone I only learned to consistently spell "separate" correctly when I spent a few years programming in Ada, in which it is a reserved word.
(DIR) Post #AxalLVojWlwar3L7GS by madengineering@mastodon.cloud
2025-08-27T10:16:16Z
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@foone English has fossilized spelling, writing worda roughly the way they were pronounced circa 1325. Tibetan is worse, I hear. Write "bsags," but it's pronounced "ro". Their last spelling reform was over 1000 years ago.
(DIR) Post #AxatfsEAiQS1mfSTZY by kate@federatedfandom.net
2025-08-27T11:49:36Z
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@foone when you break this down, it makes me realize exactly how strongly I was influenced by IRC despite it being objectively not that long a period of prominence in my life. (´⊙ω⊙`)！
(DIR) Post #Axb5M6GW0qJAyntNBY by perryprog@wikis.world
2025-08-27T14:00:14Z
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@foone in Emacs this is Ctrl+;. With caps lock bound to control, it’s all home row, and super easy. It operates on the last misspelled word it sees and it’ll also cycle other possibilities if you keep pressing it.It’s /insane/ to me that I’ve not once seen another editor do anything even close to this. It makes zero sense—even correcting spelling at point is a rare thing to be able to keybind.
(DIR) Post #AxbSggCKQM019xiRTU by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-27T18:21:57Z
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@brouhaha I bet that would have fixed me too, as I've never had a problem spelling programming keywords.