FishFace

Yes, it’s specifically a dual pronoun, referring to me and one other, whereas “we” can apply to me and any (positive) number of other people.

I didn’t even realise

WTF is this cursed visualisation?

Please sir, may I have some bar chart?

Sure. But that isn’t “deregulation” as the person above said.

How many vacant homes are there, exactly? What does the trend look like? People always say this, but the last half dozen times I checked, vacancy rates in the US (which is always what people are talking about) were falling.

“Deregulation is the key” is an absolute straw man. We need regulation to enforce the building of affordable housing, and to prevent local authorities from refusing all housing projects due to capture by NIMBYs

If only they taught you how to read graphs in school ://///

Lol wtf does that mean? What would a set of variables that isn’t “limited” even look like? What variables would you need to include to determine whether Anglophone countries had, indeed, built less housing and incurred greater price increases?

And they’re a usability nightmare on PC

Huh.

Well I’ll be damned! I actually thought Google zoomed out to a globe but that’s only on the satellite layer.

At least those tools actually are for navigation, not for showing the entire world.

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a Mercator map except in internet content complaining about them

Northern Denmark, yes, but some of the coloured bit is Southern Denmark.

Wikipedia calls it doubtful, though there are sources which say it happened. I’m curious about Denmark though!

If /i/ is the opposite of /u/ due to front/backness, what happens to central vowels? If you also flip height, what happens to schwa?

You could “flip” consonants in a similar kind of way; place and manner of articulation are essentially two linear dimensions (with place being how far forward or back in the mouth the consonant is articulated, and manner being how much the airstream is interrupted - but this is approximate). In this scheme, /b/ would become /ʔ/. There would be some difficulty because not all consonants can be made or distinguished in practice.

Is this cipher supposed to be spoken or written? You will have difficulties either way: If spoken you will end up with sounds not in the English sound inventory, so they will be hard for speakers of English (or probably: of any single particular language) to say. Some pairs of sounds that are distinct in English will be mapped to allophones. If written you will end up with sounds where there is no standard way to denote them except with IPA, in which case you’ve really made an alphabetic substitution cipher where you:

• translate to IPA
• apply a transformation to the IPA characters

In this scheme it doesn’t actually matter that you’re “flipping” the sounds; the transformation could be anything and it would be encoded, decoded and cryptanalysed in the exact same way.

Did you think someone was unaware that India’s use of English stems from colonialism? Because otherwise I don’t understand what you’re saying.

The purpose of my comment (to clarify) was that English is a commonly used (even official) language in India, and that the name when using that language is India, rather than Bhata, because your comment to me implied that “India” just wasn’t used by the citizens of India when conversing with fellow citizens at all.

What about in the second official language of India, English? :P

The constitution uses “India” in English.

But yes they’re the English names…

I believe 499 would have been written CDXCIX. 994 should be written CMXCIV. You only use a single letter prefix to subtract (hence VIii not IIX) and you only use the two symbols prior to the one you’re subtracting from, so you can subtract C or D from M but not X or VI.

This kept complexity of parsing down but also produced fewer forms that could be confused with real words!

That colour scale can get in the bin.