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jcreed

Mar 01, 2012 23:52

Fellow language nerds: are you aware of such important unicode characters such as

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lingboy March 2 2012, 15:35:09 UTC

Um, that's just lambda. How is that fake?

Its backwards variant is ʎ, which is a palatal lateral approximant in IPA.

jcreed March 2 2012, 15:36:25 UTC

The whole joke is giving funny incorrect interpretations to real unicode characters.

lingboy March 2 2012, 15:41:42 UTC

Oh I see. I thought it was inventing new characters, like the comet thingy.

jcreed March 2 2012, 15:46:51 UTC

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lingboy March 2 2012, 15:55:05 UTC

BTW, the "blame that guy" character is used in linguistics.

krasnoludek March 2 2012, 19:44:17 UTC

you linguists are so bad at accepting responsibility!

gwillen March 2 2012, 16:17:50 UTC

Can you link "three snakes testing the portal gun"? Google reveals nothing.

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bubblingbeebles March 2 2012, 19:56:40 UTC

yesss. JOKE IN TRANSIT WITH HEAD BELOW appeared today and I was super pleased.

gwillen March 2 2012, 20:14:06 UTC

U+XXXX 'UNICODE CONSORTIUM IN TRANSIT ABOVE SHARKFIN'

jcreed March 2 2012, 21:46:37 UTC

gwillen March 2 2012, 22:06:29 UTC

Sadly that is not an original -- I think nwf came up with it.

psifenix March 2 2012, 21:40:25 UTC

I was always super jealous that unicode has a consortium. I want to be in a consortium!

psifenix March 2 2012, 21:40:41 UTC

Or, barring that, a syndicate.

jcreed March 2 2012, 21:46:22 UTC

http://www.unicode.org/consortium/levels.html

lingboy March 3 2012, 01:47:11 UTC

Whoa, that's like, really expensive.

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