RE: https://mastodon.social/@courtcan/117434893394097184

"chews up extant human creations and spits them out with the heart and soul removed"

This 403 page from @WEATHERISHAPPENING certainly means business
https://403.weatherishappening.com/

RE: https://weatherishappening.network/@WEATHERISHAPPENING/117413322890653262

This site has blobdar, and I think it's written in a language.

[contd.]

So, two questions:

• besides "with" and its compounds, are there any other English words that end with a voiced -th (/ð/) but no final -e?
• are there any English words that end with -the but pronounce it as /θ/ (the sound at the beginning of "think")?

So far I've not thought of any.

I'm still thinking (þinking) about "th". Welsh routinely puts the /ð/ sound, that starts "the" in English, at the end of words (spelling it as "dd"). There are English words that do it too: e.g. bathe, soothe, lithe, seethe, lathe, blithe, loathe.

BUT: virtually all of the ones I can think of end in "-the", which seems to force the th to be voiced. The only exceptions I can think of are "with" and compounds of it like "forthwith" or "wherewith".

[cont.]

Error: Password must be a Lean proof of an unsolved problem in mathematics

The set of all sets that can contain a little bit of themselves, as a treat

A few ways to spell "enough". The full list in the OED entry is several times as long. Thankfully "enoȝ" *is* one of them. These are just ones from Middle English.

[ Edited to correct the alt-text: 108 spellings here, not just 101. But I've most likely miscounted again. ]

Bring back þe letter þ. How can you þrow out þe only rune in your alphabet?

Also bring back ð. But ðis time, except in very common words like þe which look nice þe oðer way round, don't treat ðem as interchangeable. Use ð for þe voiced one and þ for þe unvoiced one, like ðey do in Icelandic.

Enoȝ is enoȝ.

RE: https://aus.social/@drmobs/117407715653529455

To me this sounds worse than not hearing at all, and I don't even think I'm exaggerating. Imagine getting different words coming into your ears from the ones the person in front of you is speaking.

I don't know who needs not to know this, but you need to have stopped reading five words ago.

Snooperisms.

Agranams.

Every so often I misread "poetry" as "pottery" or vice versa, and it feels like a nice connection. :-) Especially given the pottery-related things people like @Remittancegirl and @ninawillburger post about. I don't think #poetry and #pottery are unrelated.

"So when I was asked to give this talk I asked chatgpt"

Nah, I'm out, dawg, thanks for giving me some more free time

RE: https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/117356264309738985

@SpicyLilly_ @anitaleirfall Just look at this! Embroidery that looks like photography. The ones in the link are good too.

What's the most deeply nested acronym that isn't recursive?

The Lion, the Witch and the Flatpack Instructions #TooEarlyBooks

What do you use #IPA for? Or if you don't use it, what do you think you would use it for if you did?

(Boosts welcome for a differently biased sample)

#poll

RE: https://discuss.systems/@ricci/117335027450856540

YES. (And very often, they're the people who don't think of themselves as teaching.)