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Please purify every single last dram Fluorine, Fluorine, Fluorine, Fluorine I'm begging of you, bind to all that you can […] Cursive Scripts are the Road to Awe, Part 2
Last time, we looked at arm biomechanics and how physiology affects the ability of humans to produce shapes, especially straight lines, consistently. The prognostication was not exactly uplifting: we established that human muscles are naturally disposed to draw wobbly lines, and that extensive practice is required to draw a simple, straight horizontal line consistently without slowing down. But before we get into the marvels of how cursive writing avoids these problems, we ought to look at some of the strategies that various scripts developed to mitigate them prior to the invention of connected writing, as these approaches are still very much evident in all real-world continuous scripts. (And considering how bad the average person's handwriting is these days, you might even improve your natural-language legibility along the way...) […]
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There was some missing code in how the related words section was displayed. It should be spiffy now. in thread: Bugs, Requests, and Changes
Looks like a good start. This is called a philosophical language; you might be interested to see how others have approached the problems inherent in philosophical languages, like how to organize concepts, or how referring to specific objects can require really long words. Many languages of this category are designed to seek absolute, canonical names for all things, and they run into some special problems—like how to avoid cultural bias, how to refer to unknown individuals, how to deal with numbering sequences that contain spurious or lost entries,1 and how to refer to paradoxical objects.2
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1. Are you still the third child in your family after your older siblings die? What about step-siblings, or illegitimate children? Even if you come up with a strategy to solve these problems—which would require making a culturally-based value judgement about what constitutes family membership, and is hence not neutral—how can you possibly account for miscarriages your parents never told you about? Only with total knowledge of the universe can all sequence-numbering issues reliably be avoided. 2. Everything good in life can be ruined by a carefully-constructed diagonal argument. in thread: Money Thread
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