✨Ben Hamill✨ @benhamill@witches.town

@0xf00fc7c8 @dzuk Some of those names are SO LONG, though.

Cc: @dzuk, who made those and I meant to mention in the initial post, but I got distracted looking up the ridiculous "standard" shortcode for the emoji I used for my example.

I refer to https://mutant.tech/demo/#symbols from time to time because it has shortcodes for the various 🈲 emoji that aren't use "u7981" or whatever, so I can actually know what they mean.

@likecroft It was a good babble. A+++++ would be babbled again.

@chosafine Oh!!! Hahaha. I like this pun. I also hadn't had caffeine yet when I read it.

@theoutrider And Google Cybre.

More lolsob than lol.

@chosafine I'm not sure if you're just commenting, "this is interesting" or if I explained something poorly…?

@shoutcacophony @ajroach42 The headphones didn't come with a split cable, just the one. If I had two cables, I'd be set. Except for cables being a pain in the butt.

@maunzikation "Behold my masterpiece, human. Look upon my works and despair!"

@ajroach42 Interesting. OK. Thanks!

@likecroft Yeah. Long shots that SHOW OFF the actors moving.

The climactic fight scene was… not as awesome. Sort of very standard MCU CGI punch-fest. I'll not say more because of spoilers, but. That is 1/2 of my gripes.

@varx At a certain point going back, you end up asking "what even is a conlang or a natlang?" since, like, someone had to make up the first words, right? One thing about Damin is that AFAIK it was never (and never meant to be) spoken as an every day thing. The vocabulary is specific and limited and men learned it as part of coming of age, rather than it being anyone's first language.

@ajroach42 So far mostly linked to ~$6 USB dongles on Amazon. Which if it works well is fine by me because I have plenty of USB ports to spare. But I'm a bit wary that it's protocol to protocol to protocol, as it were. Feels like plugging in a bunch of adapters. Like it might risk degrading things. I just don't know how much.

@likecroft Yeah. I have, like, 2 things I wish had been done better or different. But so much else was just… out of the park. I watched a video of the director breaking down one of the central fight scenes and he kept talking about the symbolism of costuming or the way a character's personality came out in some shot or whatever and I just LOVE that it wasn't just, "We thought it would look rad if she punched a dude in the face and he fell off the balcony" or whatever.

Jackie Chan (IIRC) has talked in the past about how your fight scenes can't just be fights, but have to do narrative work and I feel like this was a good example of that.

@Qwyrdo That's awesome!

@zigg Sometimes you might get a little /n/ sound in there, too if you onset the following vowel a bit early. I tend to, anyway. I expect the "h" indicates that I'm doing it wrong.

@zigg That's pretty close, depending on where you articulate your /t/s normally. Some people put them right behind the teeth, which if converted to a click is different and is more like what people use to call a horse or tsk tsk.

The difference between /t/ and the click (which IPA symbol is ‖) is that with the click you put the tip of your tongue down at the front of the ridge and also the base at the back of it and make a little air pocket, then suck and release, which makes the pop.

@likecroft They don't speak it a TON in the film, but, yeah… it was real good for a lot of reasons.

Bantu and Khoisan languages are the only languages on Earth that use clicks except for Damin, which is (was?) a ceremonial language from Australia. I think it is actually an artificially constructed language? Anyway, it's a special case in a lot of ways.

This has been #LinguisticsMinute with Ben Hamill.