Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

@aschmitz i mean yeah, regular expression matching can be simple and fast

libxslt has a (configurable) maximum recursion depth of 1500 which does mean that if you can’t reasonably chunk your markup language into smaller pieces than that you can probably only process things which are very small

i bet you could write an efficient djot parser for it though

sorry markdown

what if we only used markup languages for which it is possible to write a parser in XSLT 1.0 + EXSLT

fixed

oh my god it’s a live dom iteration bug isn’t it why would you do this to me

is the rss feed for my statuses… skipping every other paragraph?!

As the title says, it’s at <https://langdev.ladys.computer/urn:fdc:langdev.xyz:20160819:jsv:jst/>.

This is the last of the “standalone” Jastu‐Sevensi languages; it’s a refinement of Jastulae that I worked on roughly from 2010–2013. Unlike the other languages I posted dictionaries for, you can actually create sentences in this one, although the grammars are still somewhat lacking and the documentation leaves something to be desired. This dictionary also contains a small handful of names that I used in various projects around this time: Tæn, Īō, Ʒäsā, ⁊·c. As a lexis for coming up with fantasy names which follow consistent phonological rules, it’s pretty good (because, well, it does).

C·C·0 of course.

The next project is to finish up the Pre–Jastu‐Sevensi dictionary, which combines all of these languages into a single proto‐lexis. I’m feeling a bit of trepidation about this one, because I did the initial development work for it in 2015, and I’m not sure whether I agree with all of the decisions I made then. It is likely that this will be a project of not just cleaning up the existing work but also doing new development to make it complete, consistent, and useful. Having to do work on a 2015 language is a bit undesirable as I would much rather be working on a 2024 one.

My feelings towards Pre–Jastu‐Sevensi are of course merely a pre·amble to my feelings regarding Sevensi as a whole. The parts of the language I feel passionately about are the grammars, general morphology, and phonology, but the question of how to get from this early proto‐language to there still feels very undecided. After spending so much time with Jastugay, I’m not convinced I made the right calls regarding the consonant and vowel shifts when I charted it out the first time. I’m eager to dig into those problems and hopefully write up some documentation regarding them in the new year.

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hyperlinks were invented so you wouldn’t have to rely on that

the web isn’t dying, only the surface web

@alyssa like they did give us cynthia in gen 4 and diantha in gen 6 who are canonically some of the strongest trainers in the pokémon universe

@alyssa there are plenty of other strong female trainers in the games so this isn’t as big of a complaint as it sounds, but it’s been a trope especially in the anime for a long time (partially reinforced by ash being the battle guy) so it's nice to see them breaking away from it in recent generations

@alyssa the thing is,

• in gen 3, the true rival is wally; may actually fills the “professor’s assistant” role; in the anime she strives to be a contest coordinator
• same story in gen 4 with dawn
• in gen 5, likewise, bianca becomes juniper’s assistant and doesn’t match cheren or n in battling prowess
• i don’t remember shauna that well there were too many rivals in that game. serena again tries to do contests
• arguably marnie in gen 8 is a proper female rival though, even if she shares the spotlight a bit with bede

“actually girls who are into battling are way more hardcore. we’ve been giving you boy rivals so far because you weren’t ready for it”

after decades of girls who are like “i like cute pokémon! but i don’t care about battles… what about pokémon contests?!” i don’t think casuals understand what an immense apology tour the pokémon company made by giving us nemona

« As long as you ain’t got 40 grams in your hand,
can’t get you with a felony (delivery intent)
But anything less than that’s a misdemeanor
And legally a reason for police to take seizure »

biden’s only pardoning the latter one fyi