HERE ARE 7 ENGLISH WORDS
And
Angle
Annoint
Ant
Apart
Appear
Apple
“LIKE” THIS TOOT AND I WILL POST 7 MORE
one of the more difficult conlanging problems is acquiring good lists of words with a reasonable semantic distribution so you don’t wind up with 50 words for travel but can’t talk about what you ate for breakfast, or whatever
so anyway i have some lists of words
it is funny because i think @aescling and i have very similar jobs but also, from what i can tell, very different ones
i think this is a good thing, to be clear
i was a metadata nerd before i worked in a library but now i have the social scripts to narrativize it
all we have is their weird software detritus that we’ve picked up and repurposed for our own uses
obviously there WAS a community of weirdos who were willing to put the time in over decades to write specifications and build software just to talk to each other, but like, WHAT kind of a community? how? why?
today¦s cursed G·N·U Make recipe
@for target in $$($(MAKE) -s -f '$<' listout QUIET=1 $(SHUSHEOPTS)); do if test '-d' "$(BUILDDIR)/public/$$target" && test '!' -d "$(DESTDIR)/$$target"; then mkdir -p "$(DESTDIR)/$$target"; fi; for file in $$(find "$(BUILDDIR)/public/$$target" -not '(' -name '.*' -or -type d ')'); do printf '%s\n' "$$file" | sed 's:$(BUILDDIR)/public/:/:;s:/_\(.*\)_\(\..*\)$$:/[\1]\2:g;s/¦/:/g;' | xargs printf 'Copying <%s>…\n' >&2; printf '%s\n' "$$file" | sed 's:$(BUILDDIR)/public/:$(DESTDIR)/:;s:/_\(.*\)_\(\..*\)$$:/[\1]\2:g;s/¦/:/g' | xargs cp "$$file"; done; done
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“Constitutionally incapable of not going hard” — @aescling
“Fedi Cassandra” – @Satsuma
I HAVE EXPERIENCE IN THINGS. YOU CAN JUST @ ME.
I work for a library but I post about Zelda fanfiction.