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@CosmicTrigger disgusting 🤮

@lanodan what about boxes?

@natty you broke the Rust LSP
I broke the COBOL compiler
We're not the same

@domi mandatory hacker socks

@mos_8502 @eukara may I ask how you ended up at Objective-C?

also I think it counts
I'd count WindowMaker as retro too even though it still gets updates, somehow

@chjara @yassie_j @ezio remember: Minecraft has a bedrock and you can still fall in the void

@hj 640x480 and 16 colors like God intended

@FinalOverdrive @skye so Lojban

@skye @carl @FinalOverdrive officially its ancestor is Vedic Sanskrit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedas), think of it like the Hebrew in the Torah. It is attested in the Vedas shown above and related literature compiled over the period of the mid-2nd to mid-1st millennium BCE. It is orally preserved, predating the advent of writing by several centuries. It helped a lot with reconstructing both PIE and Proto-Indo-Iranian (which would be the grandfather of Sanskrit) history because we have an extensive body of works in Vedic Sanskrit. The separation of Proto-Indo-Iranian language into Proto-Iranian and Proto-Indo-Aryan is estimated to have occurred around or before 1800 BCE (iirc). As for Proto-Indo-Iranian which I think is more interesting (which is the ancestor of the Proto-Indo-Aryan and obviously Proto-Iranian languages), people estimate it that it separated from PIE in 3000 BCE (quite early actually) and people believe (but it's not settled) that it might form a subgroup along with Greek, Armenian and Phrygian on the basis of many striking similarities in the morphological structure.

After Vedic Sanskrit we have Classical Sanskrit. It's what dialect Pāṇini standardized and formalized in writing, essentially being documenting the language and is the standard for Sanskrit today. He documented Sanskrit in more depth than Greek or Latin grammarians, he used the terminology and methodology that's pretty close to what we have today. Despite differences in the analysis from that of modern linguistics, Pāṇini's work has been found valuable and the most advanced analysis of linguistics until the twentieth century.

There is a lot of lore that Western linguists like to brush under the rug, especially when India was under British rule. You should actually look into both the languages of the Indian subcontinent and also Persian, Dari and Tajik (yes, Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan speak essentially the same language).

@skye @FinalOverdrive no, it isn't fun, it's actually a bitch to pronounce. Besides, if you really think about it that's Eurocentric at its core haha

There are more interesting languages than PIE that we do know, like Sumerian, go learn that

@FinalOverdrive @skye but it is fun and you actually have recorded material for it unlike PIE

@skye @FinalOverdrive it's a valid choice, Germanic languages do have their appeal

@chjara @novenary

@andyc I can't afford to make my own instance and I'd rather dedicate my domain to my blog and software. Besides, for an instance the size of yours or Fosstodon (or even the current instance I am on) one more user is negligible computationally-wise, but on my own instance it isn't.

I am rounding up this thread

I chose floss.social, although mastodon.sdf.org has been a close second place for me.

for those who have my fosstodon accounts, expect a follow when my requests will get accepted

cc @tychosoft

@bkhl I'll consider the sdf instance, I'll just have to do some research beforehand

@bkhl id : A → A
I have my reasons to not reuse this instance, I want something a bit less associated with a particular piece of software

@specter @alecui@fosstodon.org @tcltk@fosstodon.org it's almost like I'm doing my job right :blobcat3c:

@specter pretty chill as far as I'm concerned. I don't want to move this account, I want to move both @alecui@fosstodon.org and @tcltk@fosstodon.org since it's not too late

@clacke https://fba.ryona.agency/?domain=hachyderm.io quite interesting discovery, I see

sidenote: holy shit there are some really trigger happy instances out there, even yours is not safe