[–] 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Goddammit, and here I was hoping I could finally get a phone with a Snapdragon for decent emulation. As much as I love Graphene, I may try out something like LineageOS for my next phone.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 child)

    Your comment shows an ignorance of how language works.

    As a Spaniard you should know that a) Spanish is one of the most diverse modern languages, and b) it has seen a large number of structural changes in both pronunciation and grammar since even Cervantes' Early Modern Spanish.

    Spanish spelling also follows general etymological principles, and has similar inconsistencies with English for the same reasons, though it doesn't have as many sources for loanwords, and so it doesn't have quite as many subregularities in its orthography as English does.

    Languages don't care whether there's a "central institution" recording it, because language is constantly negotiated between speakers, and so we will continue to see exactly the same sort of divergence of arbitrary orthographic practices from pronunciation that we see in English, along with all of the already-existing dialectal differences.

    It’s crazy how inconsistent English is. Just don’t change the sounds each letters do, why is it so hard?? It’s so weird. If someone wants to pronounce a word differently (not shorten, just straight up different) hit’em with a stick and yell them to speak properly at school. Ffs.

    /c/badlinguistics

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago* (6 children)

    Here's the comment I made last time this idea popped up in a thread:

    Even if we were to adopt something like the Shavian alphabet, it would only work for a few generations at most until sound change and dialect divergence built up enough to once again strongly divorce spelling from pronunciation. Not to mention the fact that it's impossible to come up with a phonetic* alphabet that accounts in a useful way for dialect differences, even just in American English.

    This has already happened with hangul, probably the paradebeispiel for successful intentionally designed phonetic systems: spellings that were once phonetic (though, again, in only certain dialects) have now become conventional due to sound change.

    So, in addition to the dialect problem, you'd end up having to either completely replace the alphabet again every hundred or so years, or you'd be right back where we currently are. Plus, interventions into the spelling system will a) make older publications harder to read without mass-translating them all into the new systems every few decades which b) will create reading difficulties for the generations that end up having to switch with each new update.

    Not to mention the fact that spelling things the way we currently do preserves etymological information (though imperfectly) about the words in question.

    That isn't to say our current system is perfect, but rather that any such system is arbitrary, and will eventually become conventionalized either way without active, persistent intervention that comes with its own significant downsides.

    *Used here in the lay sense, not the linguistic sense

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  • [–] 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 child)

    It does assume only one cutting point interior to the pizza:

    "Let p be an interior point of the disk, and let n be a multiple of 4 that is greater than or equal to 8. Form n sectors of the disk with equal angles by choosing an arbitrary line through p, rotating the line ⁠n/2⁠ − 1 times by an angle of ⁠2π/n⁠ radians, and slicing the disk on each of the resulting ⁠n/2⁠ lines."

    My previous comment may have been ambiguous, so I've edited it to be clearer. I meant that very rarely do all of the cuts go through one point - when slices are uneven in my experience, that usually comes along with a few extra mini-triangles in the middle of the pizza where the cuts have missed each other.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

    This assumes there's a single cutting point in the interior of the pizza, which has not typically been my experience in situations where this would have been an issue.

    Edited for clarity.

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