Amir E. Aharoni

Hi @vocalfriespod.bsky.social ! Thanks for the Makaton episode. The storyline about restricting it with patents and trademarks made me quite angry. I am not a lawyer, but I feel these things shouldn't apply to languages. The Blissymbols system has a similar controversy—you may want to look into it.

באנגלית, כן? אני יכול לנסות לערוך, אבל רק אם אשוכנע בעזרת מקורות חיצוניים אמינים שזאת באמת טעות. בערכים על נושאים שנויים במחלוקת דורשים מקורות יותר מהרגיל, ובערכים על המזרח התיכון דורשים מקורות בריבוע (וטוב שכך).

Coding Is for Everyone—as Long as You Speak English Code depends on English—for reasons that are entirely unnecessary at a technical level.

Aha, probably www.wired.com/story/coding... ! Thanks!

Hi @gretchenmcc.bsky.social ! Maybe I'm imagining it, but I have a vague recollection that you wrote once that the syntax of Wikipedia is a multilingual programming language, because some keywords can be relatively easily translated to other (human) languages. Could you point to that post? Thanks!

Vocalization of Modern Hebrew (from Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics) Vocalization of Modern Hebrew (from Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics)

Thanks for the mention :)

For curious people, here's much more than you ever thought you wanted to know about this:

www.academia.edu/7325021/Voca...

bit.ly/eXit - Organizations/companies/celebrities that have left X and where they've gone Table Name (all links to Wikipedia),Description,Followers on X,Last tweet (green=account deleted),Active on,inactive on Nonprofits <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR">NPR</a>,public broadcast...

I've started a spreadsheet of notable folks/orgs who've completed their exit from X (no dual-posting), and where they've landed among the new platforms (Mastodon/BlueSky/Threads).

I'm personally only active on the fediverse, but I hope this is useful for folks on here as well!

bit.ly/eXit