In Denmark, we don't say ‘I like you’. We say ‘Jeg kan lide dig’, which literally means ‘I can suffer you’, and I think that is beautiful.

#AndIThinkThatIsBeautiful

Luckily, the trolley is still going just slowly enough that you can jump on from where you're standing along the track. But only if you act fast! Otherwise, you will get left behind.

What do you do?

2/2

#NoAI #TrolleyProblem

The real “AI” trolley problem:

A polluting trolley full of tech bros and their followers is hurtling down the track towards an under-construction bridge over a canyon. On the way, the trolley will run over most of the world's artists, writers, workers, minorities, citizens of the global south and many more. The people on the trolley are quickly losing their critical thinking abilities and sanity.

There's no stopping the trolley. Nor is there any way to redirect it to another track.

1/2

#NoAI

My wife showed me this creative cat alphabet, and it works really well.

#typography #embroidery #design #CatAlphabet #lettering #calligraphy #catligraphy

Interesting video about the encoding of Maya script for computing

https://youtu.be/Vhx-hRyh6BM?is=a-yreBkSYjzJSWPc

#Unicode #Maya #MayaScript

Those who can, do; those who can't, prompt.

#NoAI

A little gem for my typography lover friends: a tool to visually explore glyphs from different typefaces designed by @djrrb

https://glyphs.djr.com/

This is really fun! Test your pixel pushing colleagues too 😉

https://dialed.gg/

🎂 Today, lingo.lol is 3 years old! 🥳

:Schwan: :lol:

Happy Mastoversary, #Lingolologists!

🍰🎁🎈🍰🎁🎈🍰🎁🎈

Every little helps to keep this server going: https://ko-fi.com/lingolol

#Mastoversary #anniversary #lingololiversary #lingolol

I am a co-proposer of a Danish citizens' initiative to secure state funding for The Danish Dictionary for the foreseeable future. If you have voting rights in Denmark, I urge you to sign it!

Jeg er medstiller af dette borgerforslag om at sikre Den Danske Ordbog statslig støtte i al overskuelig fremtid. Jeg opfordrer alle med stemmeret til at underskrive!

https://www.borgerforslag.dk/se-og-stoet-forslag/?Id=FT-21420

#borgerforslag #DenDanskeOrdbog #dansk #Danish #lexicography #dictionary #𝙳𝙺Pol

I've set up a linguistics group on fedigroups.social

@linguistics

#linguistics

Oh, I love a good old-style, half-slashed Ø!

#TypographyInTheWild #Typography #Ø

@Meyerweb Misplaced modifiers aside, does the sign above not describe this place as an "all weather" arena?

Etymonopoly is a free print-it-yourself board game with an indoeuropean / linguistics theme! Made by Ryan Starkey

https://starkeycomics.com/2025/01/16/etymonopoly/

#Etymonopoly #linguistics #Indoeuropean #Starkey

Oh, I almost forgot

🎂 Today, lingo.lol is 2½ years old! 🥳

:Schwan: :lol:

Happy one-quarter-of-a-decade of lingo.lol. Let's keep it going for long into the future.

🍰🎁🎈🍰🎁🎈🍰🎁🎈

I am paying for this server out of pocket, and haven't broken even for a long time. So any little bit you can spare for the server costs will be greatly appreciated: https://ko-fi.com/lingolol

#Mastoversary #anniversary #lingololiversary #lingolol

I’m super excited about `text-wrap: pretty`. It does a lot more to improve typography than you might expect — at least in Safari Technology Preview 216.

It improves all lines of text, not just the last 4. It enhances hyphenation & rag, not just avoiding short last lines.

https://webkit.org/blog/16547/better-typography-with-text-wrap-pretty/

Since learning the South Jutlandic dialect of Danish from my wife, I've always been aware that – compared to standard Danish – many final syllables are omitted, so they rely much more on tone and length to distinguish words.

I've recently found a verb that is conjugated entirely through tones and lengths. ‘at vende’ – ‘to turn’:

vende – /vɛ̌nː/
vender – /vɛ̂n/ or /vɛn̰/
vendte – /věːn/
vendt – /vêːn/ or /vḛːn/

#linguistics #dialect #dialects #dialectology #IPA #sønderjysk #dialekt #dialekter

Some interesting house numbers found in #Napoli, #Italy. Well, the last one may be difficult to put in an address...

#TypographyInTheWild

IPA letter ɵ (close-mid central rounded vowel) spotted in the wild.

#IPAInTheWild #TypographyInTheWild #ɵ #ø #OWithSlash #BarredO #SlashedO #Tivoli #TivoliGardens #Copenhagen

 ♛  Digital excellence meets casual handwriting. Beautiful, clever, and free!

New PLAYPEN SANS has 7 versions of each casual character, a built-in shuffler so no single shape is repeated in close proximity, and emojis. The result is text with spontaneous inconsistencies that feel fun and organic.

Designed by Veronika Burian, Laura Meseguer, and José Scaglione. From TypeTogether. Happy holidays!

#typedesign #fonts #typefacedesign #typeface #design #graphicdesign

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