Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es
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I post: silly lizardy nonsense, world building, conlangs, doctor who
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Joined Sep 2017
@softgoat good morninggggggggg
Doctor Who • Audio Dramas ░ Advice wanted
In the course of doing this, though, I realised that the column for the Unbound stories makes no sense. The Unbound stories are all set in various parallel universes, with various "what if"s as the guiding principle behind the story. So instead of just saying which alternate reality characters are present, I've replaced the Featured Characters column with a "What if" column, explaining the core conceit of the story.
Do I need to clarify any of these?
Doctor Who • Audio Dramas ░ Meta
For all the stories in the audio guide, the middle column is for "Featured characters", which gives you a good impression of which companions and recurring characters are going to feature in the story, without actually requiring a full description.
Except I discovered recently that the source I got that info from was perfectly happy to spoil surprise reveals and such, so I'm going through the guide and removing instances where things are spoiled by that column.
Doctor Who • Audio Dramas ░ Embrace the Darkness
I listened to Embrace the Darkness half a month ago, but I really loved it.
This "season" of 8th Doctor stories is really hecking good.
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@melaninpony *squishes softly*
@azushark I like to choose a language and then look it up on behindthename, and then choose one I like and make a few tweaks.
Like ngozi from
https://www.behindthename.com/names/usage/igbo
or Aderyn from
me: *busy cleaning*
my brain: you should make a minecraft clone in haskell
Good morning!
Today I'm going to clean my room
goodnight, sleepies and non-sleepies!
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@lizardsquid Unfortunately it's almost never actually true. Every couple of years someone claims to have cracked the thing, although none of them have ever bothered to do anything like, say, produce a translation or earn the consensus of other scholars.
The kicker for me was "The solution to the codex of MS408 was developed over a 2-week period". Two weeks, you say! Gosh, it really sounds like he labored long and hard over this. Outsider decipherments do occur (Linear B was cracked by an architect), but they still take years of careful work and collaboration with other scholars. Even Champollion (Egyptian Hieroglyphic) or Michael Ventris (the Linear B guy) didn't do it alone. In *two weeks*.
The kicker for me was "The solution to the codex of MS408 was developed over a 2-week period". Two weeks, you say! Gosh, it really sounds like he labored long and hard over this. Outsider decipherments do occur (Linear B was cracked by an architect), but they still take years of careful work and collaboration with other scholars. Even Champollion (Egyptian Hieroglyphic) or Michael Ventris (the Linear B guy) didn't do it alone. In *two weeks*.
@stjohn yeah, I was skimming the original paper, and saw the author misusing linguistic terms and not being particularly clear about how they determined which glyphs are associated with which symbols, but assumed that they would explain it later.
And then the paper just ended, with a side note that the author had "solved" it in just 2 weeks.
*appears slowly*
I just read a somewhat convincing claim that the Voynich manuscript has been translated:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02639904.2019.1599566
...and then a very convincing explanation of how that's not actually true:
hi I'm avery, a cute lizardsquid with 3 hearts full of love!
nonbinary ░ they/she ░ australia ░ 29yo
I post: silly lizardy nonsense, world building, conlangs, doctor who
polyam, demi, open. I love affection!
hugs and cuddles and such are ok, but everything else please ask first
languages: English • Welsh (very basic)
I have a private account, ask for access!
(some old accounts:
@gwyfyndraig
@liquid_lizsquid
)
Joined Sep 2017
