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<humanetech>Just learned that Bing is rumoured to be based on GPT-4 and quite good at making toast already :) .. https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/

<EWEW>I was making some small edits to the Goblins racket version documentation scribbles just now. And I just came across the most inconsequential difference between british and american english I've ever seen

<EWEW>Acronyms in american english, periods for each letter for an acronym generally for less than 3 words.

<EWEW>For example. eg (british) e.g.(american)

<EWEW>St (british) St. (american)

<EWEW>and then american english drops the periods for longer acronyms, common example is USSR not U.S.S.R.

<Zarutian_iPad>this is not just a difference between british and american english

<Zarutian_iPad>but also a diffrence between schools of thought and or generations of literature

<juliana[m]>lon tenpo ni la mi toki ala e toki insi. ni li pona tawa mi.

<juliana[m]>wrong chat

<Zarutian_iPad>like the double spaces after a period

<Zarutian_iPad>xau la juliana baupli la lojban pau

<Zarutian_iPad>or is it that small conlang?

<juliana[m]>it's toki pona :3

<juliana[m]>I am not patient enough to learn lojban. Maybe if/when I get ADHD treatment

<EWEW>I'm "states side" and even though I'm diagnosed and can also get a prescription for treatment. It unfortunately doesn't mean it will be filled. sad state of affairs.

<EWEW>My mechanism is to just do what i can when i can. I started learning some slavic languages years ago little by little that way.

<EWEW>It's surprising how much can get done this way.

<cwebber> https://gitlab.com/spritely/guile-hoot-updates/-/blob/main/design/ABI.md

<cwebber>juliana[m]: lol I'm entertained by you accidentally dropping toki pona randomly into the chat, haha

<juliana[m]>i am a simple woman and therefore like simple things, like the simple language and scheme (the other simple language)

<cwebber>juliana[m]: you will probably like the simplest parts of lojban too

<cwebber>but there's too much to "learn" to become proficient for most people, including me :)

<cwebber> https://mw.lojban.org/papri/la_karda is a good starting point tho if you wanna nerd out

<pinoaffe>is this the right time and place to advertise LATEL, the Logical And Transparent Experimental Language?

<pinoaffe> http://sigbovik.org/2019/proceedings.pdf#page=148

<cwebber>pinoaffe: ahaha

<cwebber>is this a language designed to punish me, specifically

<cwebber>it looks cool

<cwebber>Bell's videos with her using lojban, and her music, are pretty cool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIYvc3qd3PI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra4ID_TUJjo

<cwebber>the fact that she can live commentary a video game in lojban while playing it breaks my mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPe5kRrLqg0

<cwebber>anyway

<cwebber>back in a bit :)

<pinoaffe>cwebber: whoa, that's really impressive

<isd>The stumbling block for me w/ lojban was always finding people to speak it with, who I actually wanted to otherwise be talking to.

<Zarutian_iPad>fjandi vel gert verð ég að seigja

<EWEW>if you take the krashen route, it's more about consuming lots of "interesting" input before needing to converse :)

<EWEW>That lojban commmentary is wild.

<ocdtrekkie>This is a whole thing I have never heard of before

<isd>LATEL seems reminiscent of APL somehow.

<isd>Also food being 50 letters seems a bit... concerning

<cwebber>lol

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