Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

fire emblem: terrible decisions

i definitely would struggle to beat this game on Maddening without the DLC but i bet @wallhackio could do it (Fire Emblem: Three Houses)

a tale in two parts

spreadsheets

anyway i’m just saying setting a letter in superscript is a transparent way of encoding additional meaning without making things difficult to read for existing speakers

*puts on orthographic history glasses* 👓 but Lady, considering the history of germanic umlaut, don’t you run the risk of the superscript E being further reducᵉd to a simplᵉ diacritic? lik̈ this, for exampl̈?

*takes off glasses* but you see, dieresis on the preceding consonant is already the function silent E is performing

seems completᵉly reasonablᵉ to me

what if we just typᵉd silent E’s in superscript. likᵉ this

everybody is always like “get a blog” but bitch i follow your blog you never update it

can’t wait for the game freaks to invent a new kind of cat for girls to get horny about

can you right click in servo yet

ketheric thorm is a…

an alternation of strings

skitty is more of a moon cat than umbreon and yet @aescling never wears a skitty hoodie, dissapointing

coward Unicode not willing to encode LATIN LETTER I WITH BOWL

slash the soviets who did all this a half century ago in some cases

🫡🫡🫡 to all the people continuing to use weird and new Latin letters in their languages and providing a compelling reason for encoding

they’re adding uppercase and lowercase ʕ in Unicode 17 which i forgot about and is dope

LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH LONG LEG, for those curious