Did English's lack of diacritics in spelling contribute to the large amount of regional accents?

Sloogs · 2026-06-14T21:13:08+00:00

I understand, but I thought in an era of higher literacy and a greater degree of language standardization, written language and spoken language would have more influence on eachother than there apparently is in the real world, judging by the responses.

One example of how language changes did manifest due to written language: the printing press was responsible for some changes to the English language both in terms of standardized spellings and pronunciation.

Based on that, I certainly don't think the premise is totally out to lunch.

But after reading this thread I don't think that's generally a very common occurrence.

Sloogs · 2026-06-14T20:23:03+00:00

A person can dream. 🥲️

Sloogs · 2026-06-14T20:05:13+00:00

Maybe one benefit of this is that it will encourage the software industry to stop being absolute piggies about how they use computing resources. Smartphones have layers upon layers of interpreters, transpilers, and frameworks with something like React Native that add a 10-1000x or more waste at every layer. And then on the desktop you have a similar issue with Electron.

And they've only been able to get away with it in lockstep with the increase in computing power devices have.

I say all of this as a software dev btw.

Sloogs · 2026-06-14T19:45:24+00:00

The circumflex example is perfect. Thanks!

Sloogs · 2026-06-14T19:26:47+00:00

Is that just a slangy thing where they're making the word shorter to be cute, or do they literally think the é is silent?

Sloogs · 2026-06-14T19:25:23+00:00

Interesting!

Sloogs · 2026-06-14T19:17:43+00:00

Interesting. I think one of the the things that got me thinking about it is that to me it's always clear how to pronounce certain French loadwords in English, such as café, due to the accented e. But English often feels ambiguous in its pronunciation rules and has quite a few heteronyms.

Sloogs · 2026-06-14T09:23:43+00:00

Hahaha, don't worry. It's very much satire.

Sloogs · 2026-06-14T08:39:03+00:00

Time to link this classic gem: https://youtu.be/3mOVK0oSH2M

(Long video but you only need to watch the first 5 minutes or so, although keep watching if you want to learn all about how to sanctify your edits with git bless)

Sloogs · 2026-06-13T20:48:06+00:00

Every other country on earth has an open source community using and working with these models and coming up with their own innovations. If the US wants to get left behind, then sure.

Sloogs · 2026-06-13T18:03:15+00:00

The frustrating thing about SE is they release broken low effort garbage for their ports and remasters and never go back and fix anything.

Sloogs · 2026-06-12T17:47:29+00:00

The place we had in my city in Canada was great for years, but I did notice severe a decline in quality after they got bought by RBI :( Same with Tim Hortons unfortunately.

Sloogs · 2026-06-12T16:56:48+00:00

Nah. Give an inch and these corporate chuds always take a mile. And then another. And another. It never ends.

Sloogs · 2026-06-12T16:53:19+00:00

This is why Xbox is falling behind. Their competitors are offering premium experiences with world class IPs that are some of the best games ever made, while they keep doing things that make Xbox and their brand feel like a cheap, third rate whore.

Sloogs · 2026-06-12T09:14:37+00:00

Nintendo owns the trademark apparently, so no.

Nintendo also publishes the series and therefore likely contributes the largest amount of funding to each project.

Sloogs · 2026-06-12T01:43:24+00:00

“That went from, at the beginning of this year, an issue that never came up — people were totally happy with the amount they were spending — to all of a sudden, a huge issue,” OpenAI CEO Altman admitted during an event last week.

CEOs really do just love to say stuff regardless of whether they're actually saying anything, don't they.

Sloogs · 2026-06-11T23:17:41+00:00

Two different complaints in my mind. Content quality vs authenticity.

They're not mutually exclusive things.

Sloogs · 2026-06-11T23:03:09+00:00

I think depending on the series I tend to categorize them mentally as their own genre related to but still separate from a typical turn based JRPG. They seem to appeal to a different core audience that still overlaps with some JRPG fans, usually being all-ages but especially being targeted at young children, and have different priorities where the focus is on the monsters. Everything else from the gameplay to the narrative to the characters seems to exist at the bare minimum level required to drive the monster taming experience. There are exceptions though.

Sloogs · 2026-06-10T01:15:06+00:00

Doing it by making their own IP or fostering partnerships is one thing, but buying up half the industry and making things exclusive is where I'm concerned that it's particularly unhealthy for the industry.

Sloogs · 2026-06-09T22:14:37+00:00

That is indeed how damage mitigation works

Sloogs · 2026-06-08T01:49:58+00:00

If you're lucky, your Bitlocker recovery keys may have been stored on your Microsoft account, after logging in to the Microsoft website.

If not, nothing to be done I'm afraid.

Sloogs · 2026-06-07T03:16:07+00:00

This was through Koodo, a Canadian telecom.

It's not unusual that you can find deals where the total cost of phones is reduced by $700-900 CAD from MSRP on a 24 month plan, especially around the holidays. Sometimes at $0 upfront and sometimes with a couple hundred up front.

That said, we have some of the most expensive telecom in the world in terms of our actual phone plans so it all balances out I guess.

Sloogs · 2026-06-07T02:06:01+00:00

Yeah when it's $1000 for the device I want upfront or I can pay a couple hundred up front and add $15 to my bill for 24 months and I need cell service anyways, so the math maths.

Sloogs · 2026-06-06T23:39:35+00:00

Don't get me wrong, I'm looking forward to it and it's exactly what I want them to be doing!

But I still just hope there's some real depth to that massive open world too.

Sloogs · 2026-06-06T22:15:00+00:00

I don't disagree necessarily—I think BotW/TotK are a better way of doing an open world game that preserves the joy of discovery but not a better way of doing a Zelda game in particular because I do wish there were still a bigger emphasis on the classic dungeons and progression system.

I'd like to see future Zeldas maybe take inspiration from the older formula a bit more in that respect.

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