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earthboundkid commented on Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Lesson 1   egyptianhieroglyphs.net/e... · Posted by u/jameslk
singularity2001 · 2 months ago
Old Chinese reconstructions drive me crazy, or the fact that some scholars insist these are 99% correct instead of 'best guesses'
earthboundkid · 2 months ago
They are pretty well founded. You can read old rhyme dictionaries and see how the words evolved eg when borrowed by Japan at one time and then when borrowed again a couple of hundred years later. We can’t ever know 100% but it’s not idle speculation either.
earthboundkid commented on Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Lesson 1   egyptianhieroglyphs.net/e... · Posted by u/jameslk
singularity2001 · 2 months ago
Don't trust the pronunciation:

To quote the great egyptologist Frank Kammerzell:

“Da die Vokalisation ägyptischen Sprachmaterials aus vorkoptischer Zeit nicht annähernd vollständig zu rekonstruieren ist, hat es sich eingebürgert, eine künstlich konstruierte Hilfsaussprache zu benutzen, die keinerlei sprachhistorischen Eigenwert besitzt.

Selbst die in den allermeisten Fällen jegliche Authentizität entbehrende Aussprache einiger Zeichen als Vokale reichte nicht aus, zu bewirken, daß sich etwa in der Umschrift nur solche Lautfolgen ergäben, die von Gelehrten romanischer, slavischer, semitischer oder germanischer Zunge zwanglos hätten benutzt werden können.”

Since the vocalization of Egyptian linguistic material from pre-Coptic times is not nearly completely reconstructable, it has become common practice to create an artificial constructed auxiliary pronunciation that has no linguistic historically intrinsic value.

Even the pronunciation of some characters as vowels, which in the vast majority of cases lacks authenticity, was not sufficient to ensure that, for example, only those phonetic sequences would occur in the transcription that could have been used effortlessly by scholars of Romanesque, Slavic, Semitic or Germanic tongues.

earthboundkid · 2 months ago
Different field, but it drives me crazy that people talk about Chinese philosophy and insist on using Mandarin pinyin for it. Mandarin is language that evolved from Classical Chinese thousands of years later! There are other, equally valid contemporary derived pronunciations like Cantonese or even Japanese and Korean. The reason to use Mandarin is because it is the most widely spoken language derived from Classical Chinese, but it's 100% not how Confucius or any of them spoke!
earthboundkid commented on AI for my 10-year-old son   ghuntley.com/open-webui/... · Posted by u/ghuntley
earthboundkid · a year ago
I've seen this movie. It's long and boring and ends with the blue fairy resurrecting Haley Joel Osment.
earthboundkid commented on Why does target="_blank" have an underscore in front? (2024)   kyrylo.org/html/2024/10/2... · Posted by u/OuterVale
graypegg · a year ago
Tangential, but I would really like frames to come back for incremental document updates, like LiveView/Hotwire/HTMX. You can just start working like that today with one of those libraries, but it would be so neat to have a common standard for describing an update to a targeted frame.
earthboundkid · a year ago
The main problem with frames is that you need to use JS to get it to be responsively sized. If they would fix that, frames would be perfect. They actually do what people just think Web Components do. I.E. they are actually isolated from the styles of the host page and have an actual security boundary preventing malicious execution.
earthboundkid commented on Marsha P Johnson: A Chrome extension to highlight trans erasure   github.com/HamptonMakes/m... · Posted by u/earthboundkid
pessimizer · a year ago
I was asking about any law that made gender expression illegal. Using any kind of terminology.
earthboundkid · a year ago
Impersonating a woman/man was a crime. See the intro to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X__VKNw0XiI&t=234s
earthboundkid commented on All Kindles can now be jailbroken   kindlemodding.org/jailbre... · Posted by u/lumerina
earthboundkid · a year ago
My Kindle was bricked by an Amazon OTA update. Checkmate, atheists.
earthboundkid commented on Do any languages specify package requirements in import / include statements?    · Posted by u/foobarbecue
klodolph · a year ago
It is not painful in Go.

For example… let’s say you have just plain search-replace and no smart tools. You need to update github.com/abc/def to github.com/abc/def/v2. This is a search-replace operation.

This only happens when packages publish breaking changes. The minor version is stored in go.mod.

earthboundkid · a year ago
You can do it using gofmt, by writing

gofmt -w -r '"github.com/abc/def" -> "github.com/abc/def/v2"' .

That won't do subpackages though.

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A beach bum based primarily out of Waikiki, the earthbound kid has cleverly deceived friends and acquaintances into believing her self-stylings as a would-be philosopher and raconteur at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
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