@DMGregory just never did it before

I hate that programmers say "indexes" when it should be "indices".

You will hate it even more when you learn that "indexes" is correct.

I just came out of a 2 hour meeting. I'll blame it on that.

:D

And looking at the starboard we have to make "vertexes" a thing.

:)

:P

To be fair it also says "plural usually indices", but I will not show that part because it doesn't support my point.

Anyways, you should hate programmers for other things. Like choosing wrong when the question is "tabs or spaces?".

Prescriptive grammar/spelling for the win. The dictionary there is listing what people do, not what they should.

It's how they should work though

Like in Germany they periodically re-engineer the language

like "recently" they got rid of the curly B glyph.

it's still around, but fading.

I can totally understand that it's irritating by the way. I have cases like that too. And it really doesn't help when sometimes the dictionary says I'm wrong.

You mean ß?

That's still around and not fading.

If you let stuff come in through usage, you're gonna get stuff like "should of done something" entering the dictionary

english is confusing enough without letting this shit come in

theaxenalmo.blogspot.com/2005/06/evolving-language.html

oooh

We need one of those in english beyond "they"

I read about a gender-neutral pronoun in context of the SO pronoun debacle, but I forgot it again.

You can make up rules and teach them so that future generations use the new rules, but "indices" is one of the ones I would get rid of. It's an exception to the rule and those are bad. Better just make it "indexs".

I think the pronoun was "yo". Basically "you" in possessive form.

@Tyyppi_77 looks natural from here; seems like a smart move

@nwp haha at the very least it would be indexes. Like boxes and foxes. English doesn't do "xs" for plural. :)

Thief/thieves and staff/staves is also weird.

yeah

deer, shrimp, etc

English is kind of a mess

@Almo I know, but they should. And we're remaking grammar. "s at the end, no exceptions". "Axiss".

yeah probably

I think my English teacher at some point just said "Here are the 130 irregular verbs. Memorize them."

hahah

Also "be" is irregular even among the irregular verbs. We should change that. "I be, you be, he/she/it bes, we be, they be".

"to be" is so fucked up in so many languages.

I wonder why

Probably because it was one of the earliest words, predating grammar rules.

it's like the concept is so basic that people invent those words before they realize they're just conjugations for the same things.

There is a Microsoft site about plural forms in all languages somewhere, kinda like this. They list like 8 categories of grammatical number systems to explain to programmers why "%d thing(s)" cannot be translated and that you need to express that differently.

oooh fun

I'm happy my job is not implementing translations in games.

haha

or unicode

@nwp Could go even further to E Prime and get rid of To Be entirely... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime

We had a nice system on Starlink where we could write "You have {0} {0?widget,widgets}" and that comma-separated list could grow to include as many plural forms as the language uses, in a standardized order, going off this list developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Localization/…

That's really cool actually.

neato

I'd love to be able to extend to to work with gendered language, so you could write something like "Vous avez {0?un, une} {0}" - inserting variable nouns into phrases is a nightmare without some mechanism of gender markup.

Hello! Why when i download any game(zip) from itchio i dont get a notification about potential risk?

but i do get one when i download my game

should i use something special?

the one that is built in

im on windows 10

I dont think so. What should i do?

Sign your executable, or deal with the warning until enough users are recorded playing your game that Windows no longer considers it suspicious.

I also have the next issue

i gave my friend a link to my game today and she says that the game asks for openal32.dll file

but i was using static linking

and the game runs fine for me without any other files

I bet he does

ah found it

If you are using the sfml-audio module (regardless whether statically or dynamically), you must also copy the DLL of the external library needed by it, which is OpenAL32.dll.

:)

Dependency Walker can help find all the dlls you need. Though it has some false-positives.

but why i m able to run the game without openal32.dll file?

you can't run the game without it

@0x00004 You are not. It's just that you have openal32.dll installed and your Windows finds it. She and hers doesn't.

you have it somewhere.

O_o || o_O

You're through the looking glass now!

It's like one of those hall of mirrors effects where the reflection just recurses infinitely...

hey