Zephyr
booger on Nov. 29, 2014
No update yesteday because I was at work for twelve hours and didn't get home til almost 10. Yay doubles! I:
And this is the last strip for Words. I'm seriously thinking about making another round, but it won't happen until next year. In the meantime I can go ahead and start compiling a list. And I'll see y'all Monday with Masked~
booger at 7:27PM, Dec. 4, 2014
@Stig Hemmer-- Oh damn D:
tupapayon at 6:07AM, Dec. 2, 2014
The basis of our computer keyboards, considered standard, is taken from Latin, a language not particularly rich in sounds... There had been additions but it's usually not enough...
Stig Hemmer at 2:38AM, Dec. 2, 2014
Norwegian has extra letters too. We started noticing that this caused problems for computers about 40-50 years ago. We are *still* having problems with our extra letters and computers today...
booger at 2:37PM, Nov. 30, 2014
Gotta love the English language I:
tupapayon at 7:14AM, Nov. 30, 2014
That's what we get for using borrowed alphabets... Iberians and Anglos borrowed it from the Romans ... So we end up needing letters we don't have and using letters we don't have a sound for...
KimLuster at 6:24AM, Nov. 30, 2014
Too bad English has lost some letters! Take a 'thorn'. A thorn is a letter from old English - it looks like this: þ It was pronounced as a 'th', but original printing press (of Germanic origin) didn't have a 'thorn' character so people used a 'y' in replacement. The thorn gradually disappeared altogether due to lack of use in printing, but it survives in oddly named shops: Ye Old Beer Shop! People think the 'Ye' is a fancy of way of talking, perhaps calling it 'your shop', but it's really just a 'the'.
booger at 3:14PM, Nov. 29, 2014
@tupapayon-- Crazy indeed
tupapayon at 2:33PM, Nov. 29, 2014
In Spanish you would've had an extra one... Ñ... And in the old days, dictionaries would have sections for CH and LL... Crazy language...