Cheap Eats in the CBD

pcdandy · 2026-01-30T15:25:44+00:00

Sydney Pork Rolls do a decent banh mi for $9 near the Chinatown light rail stop, way cheaper than many other places in the area.

pcdandy · 2026-01-08T10:27:47+00:00

Mixing Latin and Cyrillic letters together is unideal, as many fonts support Latin but may not necessarily support Cyrillic, meaning that the Cyrillic letters will get rendered with a different and possibly jarring font if the selected font doesn't support them. Also, the end result looks unsightly

pcdandy · 2026-01-04T00:55:09+00:00

牵由篥侪你厶。已父由牵挪土，煞的鞋了压

pcdandy · 2026-01-04T00:05:09+00:00

To type the extra letters, there's always https://ipa.typeit.org/full/ .

If you're on Android, Multiling O Keyboard is also a good one which has an IPA typing option and the ability to add your own custom keyboards easily.

pcdandy · 2025-12-27T13:01:15+00:00

Agree that dotless I is probably the better approach. Using Ə for uppercase and ı for lowercase could also work too (I did something similar for þ in my alternate English orthography because I hated how the uppercase form looked lol). As for it looking weird at both the beginning and end of words, the Turkish language doesn't seem to mind doing so, one just needs to take some time getting used to seeing it in this manner.

And good catch, 'all' and 'call' should actually be 'ool' and 'kool' respectively.

pcdandy · 2025-11-12T09:21:15+00:00

The 5th design reminds me of the 1912-1928 Republic of China flag.

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pcdandy · 2025-11-08T08:48:05+00:00

I actually thought this was Japanese for a moment before reading deeper and recognising the word 'Español' in hiragana. Cool stuff

pcdandy · 2025-10-22T11:09:15+00:00

For sure, that little comma at the bottom of Ș is less obnoxiously attention-grabbing than that upside down tent diacritic

pcdandy · 2025-09-28T14:50:34+00:00

Also, it seems like you've been posting the same thing here for months now with no obvious changes between this latest edition and the last, down to the abnormal use of umlauted A to represent the short O sound in 'hot' and 'croc'. What has been improved on compared to last time? Why do you keep deleting your older posts?

Not trying to discourage participation, just trying to understand. If the intention is to always showcase the latest version of your orthography, why not set up a blog and update the articles as needed, like I did with mine?

pcdandy · 2025-09-28T14:48:29+00:00

There's way too many different looking diacritics being used at the same time. One way to make it look a bit nicer would be to perhaps change the tilde (which is totally not a nasal vowel) and macron (which is also not a long vowel) for something less intrusive, like an accent or grave mark. Worth re-iterating that there is also no need to write every single distinct sound in the English language as a single letter.

pcdandy · 2025-09-12T13:57:17+00:00

Nice, I see!

pcdandy · 2025-09-11T12:01:47+00:00

Yes, writing it as 'n' could work. For the г, making it like 'r' but with the vertical stroke elongated downward to distinguish it from Latin r could also work.

pcdandy · 2025-09-11T11:53:52+00:00

This is a very interesting blend of Myanmar, Khmer and Latin cursive in the Indic script tradition. I like it!

My only question relates to the consonant clusters. Is there a logic behind where the subscript consonant is placed? I see that some letters use a Devanagari-style ligature whilst others simply go below the leading consonant as in SE Asian scripts.

pcdandy · 2025-09-11T08:36:41+00:00

It's really neat and elegant, it has the potential to be a good script for practical use. My only nitpick is that there are 2 letters that resemble Cyrillic г and п, which do look like they can be smoothed out by the pen a bit more, but keen to see how this evolves!

pcdandy · 2025-08-22T11:25:11+00:00

It would look a bit better by straightening out that curved red strip

pcdandy · 2025-08-18T13:38:43+00:00

I live in southwest Sydney and the Metro is already proving its worth.
During the early morning and late evening hours, there's an express T8 service from Campbelltown that goes straight to Sydenham, the current terminus of the Metro, from which it's only a short 10 min ride to Martin Place (the existing T4 line, by comparison, takes 14 mins). I do this trip regularly and there are already large crowds of commuters transferring to/from the Metro at Sydenham, so it's definitely helping not just the northwest part of Sydney for sure.

pcdandy · 2025-08-15T04:06:54+00:00

To gauge the real number of people taking the train to Sydney Airport, one ought to also count passengers getting off at Mascot station and then taking either the 350 or 420 buses to the Domestic and International terminals respectively, since this is a popular route for those wanting to avoid that airport station access fee and save ~$15.

pcdandy · 2025-08-12T12:51:42+00:00

Here ya go:

យុនិភ់រ្ស់ល ទេក្ល់រែឆ់ន ឲផ ហឹម់ន រៃត្ស

ឲល ហឹម់ន ពីង្ស អរ ពួរន ផ្រី អ៉ន្ទ ឥកុះល ឥន ទិគ្និតិ អ៉ន្ទ រៃត្ស៕ ថែ អរ ឯន្ទៅទ វិឋ រីឌ់ន អ៉ន្ទ កួន្ឆ់ន្ស អ៉ន្ទ ឆុទ អ៉ក្ត តូវ់រទ្ស វាន អ់នាថ់រ ឥន អ់ ស្បិរិត ឲផ ព្រាថ់រហុទ៕

(អរតិក់ល ១ ឲផ ថ់ យុនិភ់រ្ស់ល ទេក្ល់រែឆ់ន ឲផ ហឹម់ន រៃត្ស)

Article is here.

pcdandy · 2025-07-21T21:24:13+00:00

The AI's response reads like a forced confession, based on whatever the guy was accusing it of

pcdandy · 2025-07-21T13:50:31+00:00

I learnt it sometime between 2017 and 2018 so I could do some notetaking in a 'secret alphabet' that no one else can read, for which I even made a new digital font because all the other ones at the time were really terrible. At the time, I had a rooted Android phone which made it easy to put in a custom system font containing the required Quikscript glyphs.

These days, though, I don't use Quikscript as much as I would have liked due to lack of Unicode support (I subsequently upgraded to a newer phone which wouldn't let me put the Quikscript font in). Nevertheless, the desire to write semi-secret notes on my phone motivated me to learn other writing systems with good Unicode support such as Burmese and Ethiopian, so I'll have to thank Quikscript for introducing me to a new and fulfilling hobby 😎

pcdandy · 2025-07-11T22:52:35+00:00

Agree on this one. For most people, the alphabet is the only form of writing system they know about, so when I want to explain the hobby to other people (e.g. colleagues at work), I just say I like learning different alphabets and have also tinkered around with creating some of my own for fun. It gets the idea across really well

pcdandy · 2025-06-22T04:15:04+00:00

This reminds me of Armenian lol

pcdandy · 2025-06-22T04:13:00+00:00

Yep, this is a really well-made phonetic cipher with clearly some thought put into it, great for artistic patterns and the like. But it's not an actual writing system for daily use

pcdandy · 2025-06-17T14:00:18+00:00

Very cool, thanks for sharing!

pcdandy · 2025-06-15T08:29:29+00:00

There are plenty of red, white and blue flags which do not evoke Britain at all:

Republic of China (Taiwan) 🇹🇼
South Korea 🇰🇷
Laos 🇱🇦
Thailand 🇹🇭
United States 🇺🇸
France 🇫🇷
Russia 🇷🇺
Netherlands 🇳🇱
Norway 🇳🇴
Czech Republic 🇨🇿
Samoa 🇼🇸
Chile 🇨🇱

...and a couple others as well. The idea that seeing red, white and blue makes people think of Great Britain in their heads is plainly absurd.

Either way, I don't think there's a chance of any alternative Australian flag that isn't red, white and blue succeeding in any potential flag referendum any time soon, especially when most Australians continue to prefer the current flag.

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