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17:00
There was a nice post on conlangs about this, but I'm not sure if you have access
@betseg
also unsure if I'll be able to find it
@MartinEnder from the name
@Adám "they" is common
@betseg I know. But what if someone asked to have "it" applied to them?
@labela--gotoa also i asked because my native language doesnt have them and they seem counter intuitive to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@Adám I mean... If you can request your own pronouns (like ze or xe or whatever) I guess you could request it. That would be kinda weird though, not gonna lie
17:06
Also all languages need inclusive and exclusive "we"
@betseg ELI5?
@flawr Chris is occasionally also a female name
@betseg yes please
CMC: check if pronouns alternate. Male pronouns are his and he and female - her & she. Case doesn't matter. You can assume that the pronouns will be surrounded with spaces. You can count he. as he, but can't count mother as her
@DJMcMayhem we but not you / we including you
@DJMcMayhem "we are going." Can mean "You and I are going" and "I and my friend are going"
17:08
@DJMcMayhem "we" is often ambiguous because it's not clear whether it includes the person you're talking to or not. (just imagine your parents when you were a kid "we're going to go do X on the weekend" and you're like "wait, does that mean I have to go too?") some languages have separate pronouns for those cases.
Ah, cool.
Yeah, I would not mind English having that
New proposal: Ve (inclusive) and We (exclusive)
is this an inclusive or exclusive I ? :D
If we ve start using it enough, it'll catch on
that should have been "ve" :P
...
Wow, I'm dense
17:10
@DJMcMayhem pronunciation?
@DJMcMayhem but you wouldn't hear a difference, right?
Ninjad
@betseg Like the language/letter :P (that was not on purpose)
@MartinEnder it usually depends heavily on the context of the sentence
@flawr then your English pronunciation is very German ;)
17:14
Guys, I think you meant to post on the linguistics chat :P
Or Yiddish:
An eldely Jewish couple on their way to a vacation in Hawaii, got into an argument about the correct pronunciation of Hawaii. He was sure it was Havaii, but she maintains that it was Hawaii.
As soon as they landed they asked the first person they saw, "Would you mind telling me the name of this island?"
"Havaii!", the man replied.
"Thanks", answered the man.
"You're Velcome," the man replied.
@labela--gotoa if all the off-topic stuff on TNB wasn't on TNB, this room would be way more empty :p
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@dzaima :P haha
@dzaima Yeah, and as it stands, TNB is like the general chatroom for SE.
@Adám except it's only used by PPCGers
17:17
@dzaima So? It's still the most active chat room on SE.
> General discussion for codegolf.stackexchange.com

@Adám, Well, not entirely :P
@Adám what, really?
@labela--gotoa I wouldn't be surprised as other rooms are way more restrictive on off-topicness
@dzaima Well, maybe :P
@labela--gotoa Appears so. Doesn't include SO, though.
@Adám Same goes for Portuguese. In PT, Hawaii is spelled and read Havaí
17:23
Chrome can't connect to a "website", which is a HTML file on my PC ಠ_ಠ
@MartinEnder hm apparently there is a difference, but nobody ever told me D: after watching some videos of people trying to teach the different pronunciations I'm still pretty convinced that you cannot hear a difference if someone does not ephasize it
you absolutely can. and I'm sure it's even more obvious to native speakers.
@flawr agreed 100%
@flawr "ooee" vs "vee"
does french have this difference? (I have the impression that wagon et voiture are pronunced the same?)
@Adám as I said, it is the same XD
17:25
@flawr Wait, do you mispronounce "v" as "oo" or "oo" as "v"?
@Adám how am I supposed to tell XD
@flawr Are "oo" and "v" vowels or consonants?
to be serious, in my native language I probably use something in between, for both v and w
same ^
@flawr When I say 'v', my bottom lip touches my top teeth. (like a voiced 'f') When I say 'w', my lips get close together, and it's like an 'oo' sound but as a consonant instead of a vowel
I don't really know how else to describe it
17:27
@DJMcMayhem you kinda nailed it though.
@DJMcMayhem yes I've seen that in those pronunciation videos, but I don't think I used either of those
when i make the sound v in turkish (no w in turkish) my bottom lips are vaguely near my top teeth
So you use something more in the middle?
yes
@Adám If I had to guess, based off of times in the past when I've heard a heavy German accent, I'd guess they (He? She?) pronounced both as "ve"
17:29
@DJMcMayhem I'd say a stereotypical "movie"-german accent would be "fe"
@DJMcMayhem V in German sounds kinda like an F in English
@DJMcMayhem Yeah, because German doesn't have the "oo" w, and more so because German "w" ≡ English "v".
And W sounds like the English V
@J.Sallé I'd say exactly like.
Ah, so it's less voiced
17:30
Also in german the "v" is often pronounced as "f" (for instance in "Vogel" (bird))
@H.PWiz Oh yeah sorry. I messed things up. I'll remove my comments now :| (re to this)
Silly spellings. In English f=ph and in German f=v.
@flawr v should just be like a German w (although I can't remember off the top of my head whether Swiss pronunciation of w would be different). but there's no equivalent for English w.
@MartinEnder Wikipedia says they are different
Man, it's tough trying to explain pronunciation over text haha
17:31
Yeah. The best example I can come up with is that German Volk ≡ English Folk
@MartinEnder that makes sense. And you know, even my german pronunciation is probably pretty bad :)
@DJMcMayhem actually, there are some Germans who'd pronounce it the wrong way round. (if they're vaguely aware that the "w" sound exists in English, but are used to pronouncing "w" as the German "w" and then go for the English "w" sound on the less common "v")... it's horrible
en-tr: v == (v+w)/2, f == f, oo == u, w == Ø (empty set) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@flawr I wouldn't know :D
ಠ_ಠ
17:33
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@J.Sallé but that equivalence ends after the initial consonant :D
English has no letter for ʦ while German has z, but then again, German doesn't fully distinguish between s=English z and s=English z. Though English s can also be z sometimes. \○/
@MartinEnder yeah, I'm talking specifically about the Vsound there
@Adám Now what is ʦ? My IPA is terrible
@DJMcMayhem something like "ts"
17:34
pretty much "ts"
@DJMcMayhem /ts/
@DJMcMayhem Not IPA (any more). ts as in cats
That was my guess :P
@Adám But I think germans do have different "s", don't they?
17:35
t͡s
^^^ [aʦa]
@flawr There's ß which is always an unvoiced s as in sing.
@flawr yeah, the point is that s in German can be both voiced and devoiced, whereas English usually uses it only for the devoiced sound (and uses z for the voiced sound)
How do you voice 's' without getting 'z'?
you dont
17:36
@mudkip201 link?
@MartinEnder see that is another thing I'm probably horrible at:)
@MartinEnder As in "houses"?
I don't really see why you'd need a letter for 'ts', it seems redundant. Then again, so is 'x'
Now I really wonder why we were never taught any of those differences.
@DJMcMayhem so is c in english
17:37
@Adám for that one I'm not sure I'm pronouncing it correctly. but I think both "desert" and "dessert" use a voiced s.
@Adám Pronounced Houzes :P
Portuguese makes it easier I guess. S = Z when used between vowels and S otherwise.
@DJMcMayhem No, haʊzɪz
@DJMcMayhem There's not a one-word example in English, but try: 'cat shit' vs. 'catch it'
turkish: s is always voiceless, z is always voiced
17:38
The labiodental approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. It is similar to an English w pronounced with the teeth and lips held in the position used to articulate the letter V. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ʋ⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is P or v\. The labiodental approximant is the typical realization of /v/ in the Indian South African variety of English. As the voiceless /f/ is also realized as an approximant ([ʋ̥]), it is also an example of a language contrasting voiceless and voiced labiodental a...
@DJMcMayhem it gets more fun, because "z" is often used in the letter combination "tz" (which doesn't really affect the sound of the consonant but shortens the preceding vowel).
@mudkip201 Without over emphasizing it and without context, those sound basically identical to me. But neither has a 'ts'
yeah. derp
@DJMcMayhem on the other hand english needs another symbol for "sh" as it doesn't have a lot in common with "s" or "h"
@flawr h functions as modifier of the previous consonant: ph, sh, dh, gh.
17:40
Well, it's actually pretty similar to 's'. To pronounce 'sh', I make an 's', but with my tongue further back
@Adám gh is a weird one.
@Adám I'd imagine that's largely due to the aspirated consonant mutating
@DJMcMayhem then I'm probably doing that wrong too
English is weird, but it can be understood through tough thorough thought though.
17:40
@DJMcMayhem it usually sounds as either f or r
Except in ghost
@J.Sallé r?
And when is it an 'r'? I can't think of any examples
@DJMcMayhem "th" in English is basically what "s" is in German (in terms of ambiguity). It can be both voiced (this) or devoiced (thing).
It's usually silent
17:41
@DJMcMayhem yeah, but ghost and gost are phonetically the same I think?
It would be so neat if English used "dh" for voiced th instead. :D
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@MartinEnder Yeah, then maybe people would have a chance to get this thing right.
*dhis thing
@mudkip201 @DJMcMayhem > In English ⟨gh⟩ historically represented [x] (the voiceless velar fricative, as in the Scottish Gaelic word Loch)
17:42
dhis thing*
ninja'd :(
@MartinEnder I've thought that a bunch of times too
@MartinEnder ðis þing
yay for Icelandic
@MartinEnder or Faroese
17:43
@Adám I'm not aware of gh and dh, any examples?
bring back Ð and Þ!
@J.Sallé Well, when I see "gost", in my head it looks like it should be pronounce gossed, (rhymes with lost) not goest (rhymes with host)
I don't know why though
@DJMcMayhem same here.
@J.Sallé Faroese doesn't actually use thorn, I think
@MartinEnder Interesting. Is the difference very notable/easy to hear? I'd have a really hard time distinguishing that
17:44
Icelandic is pretty good at having a phonetic alphabet in general though. they've got 15 vowels, but in return each vowel always represents the same sound (although it might be long or short). But then some letter combinations can get really weird and sound nothing like you'd expect.
@MartinEnder yeah, you're right.
@MartinEnder Correct.
@MartinEnder turkish does the same with 8 vowels ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (except for loanwords, then there are 10 vowels)
@DJMcMayhem yeah, the difference in vowel length is quite noticeable. like I don't know... the difference in vowel length between "got" and "god".
That is the thing I enjoy about french (in contrast to english): you don't have to guess how to pronounce a given word
17:46
@MartinEnder Finnish is the easiest: Letters always have the same sound. Double consonants are two consonants and double vowels are long.
That's only noticeable if I stop to think about it.
@Adám but I think being easiest ends at the pronunciation :D
@Adám same with turkish, except a caret for long vowels (only for loanwords, no long vowels/consonants in turkish words)
@Adám Finnish is hard af though, there's like a bazillion inflections and reflections and stuff
@flawr Pronounce this: Slough is about half-way from Reading to London.
17:47
@DJMcMayhem I'm sure it would sound wrong to you if I swapped out one word for the other in a sentence
@Adám There's a handful of annoying exceptions though...
@Adám don't get me started on English town names :D
@MartinEnder relevant polandball: i.imgur.com/QFm6SCE.png
@MartinEnder Yes, but that's not the difference in the 'o' sound, it's the ending consonant that makes them distinct
@Adám I have to look that up, I have no idea :)
17:48
@MartinEnder Or the Northeastern US
@flawr it could be done with any agglutinative language tho
Since we're all talking about linguistics, it's poll time: How many languages do you speak?
do programming languages count
@DJMcMayhem I'm pretty sure that swapping out the consonant sound makes a smaller difference than swapping out the vowel sound (i.e. if I tried to say "got" with the o from "god" you'd probably think I said "god" a bit weirdly, and vice versa). again, hard to convey in text.
@flawr Slah-oo and Redding
17:49
@betseg do you speak them? XD
@DJMcMayhem at what level...
@flawr sometimes
@flawr theoretically
@DJMcMayhem it's probably a bad example anyway, because the consonants do differ
Who else speaks 5?
17:51
@Adám I do.
@Zgarb Care to list them?
Finnish, English, Swedish, Spanish, French.
@Zgarb Oh, you're Finnish.
@Adám The only valid reason to know Finnish. :P
@Zgarb Also to participate in FinnAPL activities. Do you?
17:53
@Adám /slaʊ/ /ɪs/ /əbaʊt/ /hæf/ /wʌɪ/ /frɒ̃/ /rædɪn/ /tjuː/ /lɒ̃dɒ̃/
Took me a while there >.>
@betseg (((((()()()){}){}){({}[()])}{})(((()()()()){}){}){}())((((([]()){}())()){}{}){}‌​)
@Adám Sadly, no. I only know FinnAPL from the list of APL idioms floating around the internet.
.oO(That took way too long to write)
@J.Sallé That first one and third one really irk me. I don't hear /ʊ/ when I say them, and I can't even make those sounds work as diphthongs.
Ended up picking 2 languages, because I couldn't have a conversation in any other (not even a broken one). I do know some basic Icelandic, Latin, Russian and Italian though (in order of decreasing knowledge).
17:55
@DJMcMayhem aw
@MartinEnder I don't know, it's hard to measure.
I know some basic Spanish, but I would be hopelessly lost in a conversation, so I'd say that doesn't count
@mudkip201 actually, /aʊ/ is a single IPA sound. It's like the ou in american English about
@Adám What's your list of languages?
@J.Sallé I know. But that sounds more like /æu/ to me. That is, the ou in about
@Zgarb Danish, English, Swedish, Hebrew, Yiddish. (Studied French for three years, but…)
17:56
I speak Portuguese, English, German, Spanish, some Italian and some Russian (in order of how much I mangle each language)
@J.Sallé Wow, that's six.
@mudkip201 well, I pronounce it that way probably because I've been taught British English
@Adám I voted 4 because I can't really hold a conversation in Italian or Russian
I can read them pretty well if I take my time though
French is my weakest language. Luckily (or unluckily), I currently live in France. :P
CMP: Which is easier, German or French?
both are bad for me O.o
18:04
according to my friend, german (im a2 in german but a0 in french)
@Mr.Xcoder German for sure
Not sure about native English speakers, but for me, learning German was like an extension of learning English.
I'd say German as well. I may be biased though as it shares a language root with Swedish. Maybe French is easier for someone who Speaks Italian or something as a main language?
If OP allows leading space, can I indent the output with a column or spaces or it only means that I can put some lines before the output?
leading space usually means on first line. Some challenges allow any amount of whitespace as long as the output lines up correctly, but that is not the norm
when in doubt, ask the OP
@Emigna Well, I'm just trying my language in some easy challenges, now I'm trying this, and I can't find a way to do it without the first column. OP allows extraneous whitespace that does not affect appearance, but the first paragraph says generate each letter in the alphabet, with spaces before it equal to its position in the alphabet minus one, so that "minus one" seems to disqualify the solution
18:18
@Dennis I opened an issue on Github, and it got fixed in under two hours, and I'm not sure why no one did that earlier.
Personally I would go with extraneous whitespace that does not affect appearance. as long as each line has one more space than the last, it should be okay
OP also mentions in comments that extra whitespaces are ok as long as they are on each line
ah, thanks
18:31
does anyone here know how to use knuth up-arrow notation to express a^(a^(a^...n)))? Like this:
latex.codecogs.com/gif.latex?\large&space;\underbrace{a^{a^{\cdot^{\cdot‌​^{\cdot^{a^x}}}}}}_n
@ConorO'Brien I think I do
A^A^A^A would be A arrow arrow 4, right?
yes
but what about the ^n at the end? it must be evaluated first
Oh I missed that
Hmm is it transitive? e.g., does (A^A^A^A)^X == A^A^A^(A^X)?
no, it's right-associative
(2^1^1^1)^2 != 2^1^1^(1^2)
18:35
Then I can't help you
well thanks anyhow
@HyperNeutrino Sure it does:
>>> (2^1^1^1)^2
1
>>> 2^1^1^(1^2)
1
>>>
/s
oh wait I got it, I can use a fractional exponent a↑↑(x+r) so that 10^r = n
(plus or minus one somewhere, idk)
since 10↑↑2.5 = 10^(10^sqrt[10])
18:54
Chrome "sources" tab is not responding when your script got into infinite loop... It is too late...
(sources tab has pause button if you don't know :P)
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Ephellon Dantzler Sandbox: Is this question already available (duplicate)? Are things too vague? Does providing the example help or hinder? Tidy the Pantry (easy) I hate grocery shopping, particularly the part where I put groceries away--so I'm calling upon the collective hive-mind to handle t...

19:15
Hi @Flip! It's been a while
it has... I've been caught up in revision and my jazz quintet
The latter sounds cool
I have these pulses of activity and inactivity... I guess I'll be back fully next month or so :P
Yeah, it's a fun project, we've got gigs all around town and hoping to head up to scotland to play a festival this summer
Python byte shavers is extremely... well... inactive lately
:P I'll have to get some Python golfing going then
19:18
Well good luck with the festival!
We've had few challenges in the last couple of days ;-;
I haven't posted a challenge for a while...
Either I have loads of ideas at the same time and can't wait to post them one after another, or I have absolutely nothing sandboxed
I'm not sure if it's just me, but it's normally the smallest things that get me thinking and eventually form a challenge
Not just you
my first challenge was result of visit in a mine...
var t = this;
t.array.pop()
^ error: t is undefined
chrome wtf
but the error disappeared after a second
19:51
blame v8 not chrome :P
@moonheart08 developers.google.com/v8 "Chrome V8"
v8 is part of chrome
ninja'd :P
Perfectly usable as a seperate library :P
It's still part of chrome
19:53
CMC: n[√(n/2),√(n/2),2]
not saying it's not
ok that makes no sense now that i think about it
lets just drop this so i become a bit less confused, hmm?
@Adám Mathematica: {a=√(#/2),a,2}&
E.g. 18[3,3,2]
Can we output as newline separated?
@cairdcoinheringaahing Sure.
19:56
I'm glad actually works because I replied first and tested after
@Adám Canvas, 5 bytes. If we can output with items on the stack, the last char can be removed
@Adám C (gcc) +4 bytes (-lm): f(n){printf("%f %f 2",n,n=sqrt(n));}
ಠ_ಠ I just realised that my language can't output with a separator
Maybe stretching a little but can we output as 3.03.02? E.g. With .0 as a separator?
@cairdcoinheringaahing Sure, CMC after all.
19:59
@cairdcoinheringaahing you could just say that . is the separator :p
(Those aren't spaces, Mathematica just displays stuff spaced out like that)
@cairdcoinheringaahing ^ Yeah, I first thought that was a date format for March 2nd, 3.
@Adám Stax, 8 bytes
@cairdcoinheringaahing Wat?
@cairdcoinheringaahing oh is that the line reference language?
@Adám I can provide a full explanation if you give me a minute :P
@Adám Pyt, 4 bytes
@mudkip201 That's producing the wrong output for 5
I think it's using integer division by 2
20:10
@recursive oh my canvas suffers from that too
@recursive Hm, I never did specify that input will always be twice the square of an integer, did I? My bad.
it's a bytecount unchanging fix anyway
@Adám In that case, Stax, 6 bytes :)
@Adám SOGL, 5 bytes
20:15
@cairdcoinheringaahing Ah, so > is a literal and >> is a ref?
@cairdcoinheringaahing Neat.
@recursive Dammit. Yep, you're right. It'll be 5 bytes then, by sticking a at the beginning
@Adám Thanks, it was an interesting idea to play with
20:20
Dunno if someone's posted this already, but we're famous!
unfortunately it's been already posted :p
@Scrooble There was even a starred posts about that
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ We love ourselves so much we don't care about how many times it gets posted in TNB :D
Hehe.
20:21
@Scrooble no
Someone tell Randall it's called .
whatever you were thinking
dammit scrooble. I said no
...sorry...
@Christopher that might come off as somewhat rude...
Reverse bowling would be fun...
20:22
@EriktheOutgolfer good point
@EriktheOutgolfer Not at all!
@Scrooble didn't mean any
Yeah, I flipped the tab and was a little confused
Hmm, I'm getting worried about how strong Stax is getting in code golf. Jelly may not be the clear winner, even with Dennis' backing
@Adám Dyalog, 12 bytes: 2,⍨2⍴.5*⍨÷∘2
20:27
already been ninja'd
Right now, Alex has a diamond on main but not on meta
what
Wait
inb4 shouldiblamecaching
probably
digimon, kinda like djmon. mon is like mod. djmod= DJ is mod. Digimon predicted that Dj would be mod
@DJMcMayhem dude ^
20:39
Does anyone else see DJ's diamond floating below his username when you click on his username here?
no
probably your screen size
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I though it was amusing
are you on mobile
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Q: We should make a list of 'basic', 'mediocre', and 'expert' challenges

tfbninjaSomewhat related to this question on creating tags regarding difficulty When I first came to this site, I had no idea on how anything worked, and I wasn't that great at golfing, I only knew python and I had never used it for anything like this. I can only assume this is how most new users feel. ...

CMP: Accepting answers to ?
I want to make quantumBrainfuck. any ideas?
@Christopher Why?
20:45
Because they won
Jan 2 '17 at 5:49, by Mego
> A friendly message from The Name of All that is Good and Holy: Hello! This is The Name of All that is Good and Holy. Before you think of making your own extension to this language, here's another idea for you to consider: Don't! For the love of me, please don't make another derivative of this language! Unless you have something truly new to contribute, it's been done a million times before and will probably make it worse than the original.
@cairdcoinheringaahing I think you shouldn't, but I do anyway, for the rep
cheese
@Unihedron First thing is first: Realise it is possible to simulate a quantum computer.
It's been done plenty of times
@NewMetaPosts @tfbninja I would recommend moderate instead of mediocre. Mediocre implies low quality, not medium difficulty
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

DevelopingDeveloperPaintball Tournament Inspired by The Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock Tournament of Epicness as well as other King-of-the-hill challenges, I would like to propose a Paintball Tournament. There is a game on my phone, called Game Pigeon that contains a paintball game. This paintball game is p...

20:47
@cairdcoinheringaahing no
^^^ yeah
@Christopher Have you seen this post?
@DJMcMayhem Nice way of sneaking in that reminder :P
@DJMcMayhem I could see that
@cairdcoinheringaahing had it downvoted for a while now
@cairdcoinheringaahing What reminder?
20:49
@DJMcMayhem cough diamond cough Oh, nothing ;P
You mean this?
9 mins ago, by caird coinheringaahing
Does anyone else see DJ's diamond floating below his username when you click on his username here?
No, the use of moderate
Ooooh lol
That feel when you add a giant formula to an answer, and everything fits on one line except for a poor 1/2 :(
Oooh, that does look annoying
20:51
But mod-uh-RATE and MOD-ər-it sound totally different
does anyone know of a good screen recording thingy for fedora
gtk-recordmydesktop isn't the best thing in existence

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