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Yeah, I think[*] that's common for most languages: With much more material in writing, vocabulary and spelling stabilize.

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[*]: I guess, from what I've understood -- absolutely no expert, just interested.

> it looks more Germanic to me, which I don't have the knowledge to read.

Of course you do, not only to read but write: English still is a Germanic language.

Replace "that thing that looks like a 3" with, eh, "gh" I think.

(Sorry, can't recall for sure, returning to this thread a couple days after reading TFA.)

Paradoxically, that might help us speakers of Continental Germanic languages, since it could bring both pronounciation och word-roots closer to traits that have survived in Dutch, German, or the Nordic languages.

> al þar sor and al þat sorȝe.

> all there sour and all that sorryness.

"all those sores and all that sorrow"?

Yup, definitely easiest. (That's how I first got it too.) Dunno if it's ethymologically correct, though; that depends on what the roots of "pain" are.

Since it's explained further down the page that it comes from an earlier loan from Latin "peona", "punishment", I suppose there is kind of a cognate in English itself from the later loan of the same word that has lead to "penalizing".

I'm fairly certain the "ruling parasitic class" in this bit:

> ...all German people who have been divided and conquered by a ruling parasitic class that we all know moved around the continent, marrying into each other’s families and becoming the people’s aristocratic slave masters over centuries

...is a weasel-worded way of saying "Jews". That is, this is just a re-spewing of the same old racist talking points from the original Nazis (and earlier).

Just in case anyone didn't see this for what it (almost certainly) is.

I'm almost certain it's the imperative form of a verb, in the grammar of the time apparently "to swien", "to be silent" or "to shut up".

"Swie!" from "swien" looks kind of exactly like "Schweige!" from "zu Schweigen" in modern German. Must go back to the same root (closer to "swie" than "schweigen", I'd guess) in Proto-Germanic.

> > puna(?)

> Note that the p is struck through below its loop; that is probably an abbreviation for "per".

Aha, so "peruna".

How the heck did Dante know what "potato" would come to be called, centuries later, in Finnish???

> No idea what this word ["swie"] is.

"Be silent" (or "shut up"). Feels like it must be a cognate of Ger. "Schweige[n]".

> It still boggles my mind that my Mum would pick a name the Dutch can't pronounce.

Maybe she meant for you to go by Mathias (or whatever the local equivalent is) when in the Netherlands?

Almost correct, except it's Swedish the Danes are speaking with a hot potato in their mouth.

In a crashed flying saucer, in the recordings of an old alien ethnographer?

OTOH, those 6,000 characters sound rather like child abuse to me.

> BS. Phonetic alphabets are _much_ easier to learn for everyone.

BS yourself: The English -- e.e. Latin -- alphabet is just as phonetic as any other.

As long as you don't fuck up your pronounciation as thoroughly as English has done.

Textual / Text-based UI used to be more common.

Makes more sense, too: Although you run TUI apps in it, the terminal itself is inherently more of a CLI than a TUI. Makes "terminal" rather misleading, IMO.

> Each time I want something to be easier, I open claude-code and ask for a TUI.

WTF has happened to software development, that anyone thinks they need "AI" for that? Any self-respecting half-way decent IDE has had parameterized templates for that since at least the mid-1990s. (They used to be called "Wizards" on Windows, or "Experts" in the Borland tools.)

Select "File", "New", "[Whatever]", answer a few questions in a (series of) dialog(s), click "Finish", and hey presto!, you had a new project, templated according to your preferences, with the UI scaffolding all finished. (Mostly GUI, of course, since that was the hot new thing back then; but could just as easily have been TUI, and I suppose some had that too.)

All done locally on your stonking new 486 266 Mhz / 16 MB. No need to burn half the planet to run some LLM "in the cloud", i.e. on someone else's machine in a datacenter somewhere. Jeebus fuck, does one have to be labelled "old curmudgeon" just for thinking there's something seriously wrong going on here nowadays?

Yeah, but Preussag only changed its name to Touristik Union International in 1997[1], so I think the user interface interpretation clearly predates the travel agency one.

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[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUI_Group

Yeah, but I see your link is to "Text-based_user_interface", not "Terminal_user_interface". (Personally, I recall seeing "Textual" at least as often as "Text-based".)

The styling "Terminal" is new to me; I'm not sure I've even ever seen it before this thread. That's the "new-fangled bit for gen-Z", as others in this sub-thread have bemoaned, AFAICS.

And I must admit I rather agree with those bemoaners: It's stupid. Sure, you do run your TUI apps in the terminal, but the terminal itself is really a CLI, not a TUI. This makes the term rather misleading.

So "Text[ual|-based] User Interface" is a far better reading of "TUI" than "Terminal User Interface", IM(ns)HO.

> ...a way any human would balk at (push main to origin, delete .git, re-clone from origin. Merged local branches are gone!)

Ahem... But yeah, then I -- or we, I and my team at the time -- (somewhat, at least rudimentarily) learned git.

That's anti-social. They're anti-social media.

You might be on to something there... That the effort itself raises quality? Perhaps.

More like 25-30 years, innit?

> Usenet before the Eternal September?

Even well after it, in many places. The effect wasn't universally immediate.

> It's pure logic that Tesla has to pursue bets that would justify billion dollar valuations and being a car company isn't that.

Isn't this in reply to a post (or was that another reply just below it?) about how other, "traditional", car companies are valued at 55, 60, 80, and 280 billion dollars...? Seems being a car company and having a billion dollar valuation isn't all that incompatible.

So you're "fully aware" that you're supposed to pay attention, but you still think "making driving more chill" is somehow desirable (or at least supposed to be desirable, for marketing purposes)...

I think you -- and everyone else -- should not only be "distrustful" of these purported "autopilots" or "copilots" or WETF the marketeers call the contraptions, but actively avoid ever buyin any vehicle equipped with them. Just refuse, and do your own damn driving. For everyone's sake, including your own.

Yes it is: If those civilisations could "develop the long and hard way", why couldn't we?

Even if that were true, it wouldn't disprove the link to racism: Eratosthenes was Hellene, not native Egyptian. He "counts as white"; ancient Egyptians may or may not.

Feels to me that the current popularity of "What if...?"-scenarios of Alternative History may be a substitute. Though those are at least explicitly acknowledged as speculation, not some "Hidden Truth". (In contrast to "Flat Earth", "QAnon", and other recent conspiracy theories.)

"People in his time"?!? He only died the other day. Until last week was "his time"! And new weird religions / cults / sects like the "Ancient Aliens" one he founded are being born all the time. The world hasn't changed fundamentally since last week, so it's still "his time".

The only place he has earned is as a successful nutjob / scam artist (about on a par with L. Ron Hubbard or Eric Dubay?), as opposed to all the less successful ones.