Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

@coriander oh i absolutely believe they MADE music

@coriander did they let clones listen to music

@coriander i think i started conlanging before i took a language class but i don’t think i started reading linguistics articles on wikipedia until after, so the language class was probably my first encounter

@packetcat this is picked up upon by later Marxist thinkers as well; for example Mao distinguishes between colonialist interests and those of the “national bourgeoisie”, explicitly saying that an alliance between the proletariat and the national bourgeoisie is necessary initially to overthrow colonialism

however you can’t ignore class either, because what you see is that as colonial power weakens, the national bourgeoisie will flip-flop and ally with the colonizers in order to remain in power

@wallhackio @aescling “which unicode codepoint is your favourite” [1,112,064 options]

@james@strangeobject.space use the unicode tags? mostly you wouldn’t; most of them aren’t even defined, but there are a few. Here are some examples :⁠—

• Script code Qaag is currently being used for identifying nonstandard use of Burmese characters for the Zawgyi font, ideally to aid in migration to a standardized form. See <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zawgyi_font#Unicode_incompatibility_(ad_hoc_font_encodings)>.

• Region QO is used to mean “Outlying Oceania”

generally speaking, you would not use these tags yourself, unless you are working in the sort of narrow field which requires them. the bigger issue is if you are developing your OWN private‐use tags for some purpose (for example, to tag a constructed language in a fantasy novel). in that case, it would be ill‐advised to use a tag that Unicode CLDR has reserved for their own purposes, because Unicode CLDR is ubiquitous in computers and it might acquire some weird edge‐case meaning later.