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Language affects its speakers’ world view. So we need languages and writing systems diversity in digital world. By @andreysitnik for @logux_io.

[@[email protected] @linguopunk]

Send interesting fonts, rare writing systems and languages via DM or to [email protected]. We need languages diversity in our digital world.

[Kat ⊷ the Poet Engineer @poetengineer__]

book = landscape.
the layout of the talmud and chinese classics feels like geological strata - generations of commentary layered around or next to a core text.
tamuld: radial layers
the analects (論語注疏)): different font sizes and columns -> different writers

[Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle]

Feminism in Russia is great

My favourite thing about it is how feminists have created new words for professions like юристка, тренерка, авторка, докторка, etc.

Whereas in the Anglosphere, the trend has been the opposite: removing gendered suffixes from job titles

[renzokuken • arienzio.bsky.social @arienzio]

Saw stills floating around and apparently the ATLA movie switched from Chinese writing to a custom script which I realized was a lovely English phonetic alphabet

[@[email protected] @sitnikcode]

In Germany, there was traditionally its own distinct branch in the development of Latin letterforms.

Its latest version, the Sütterlin script, was created in 1911.

But the Third Reich switched everyone to standard typefaces.

https://t.co/aYuk4LMcJN

[@[email protected] @sitnikcode]

Pangrams use every letter of the alphabet:

> The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

There are also phonetic pangrams, which include every sound:

> The hungry purple dinosaur ate the kind, zingy fox, the jabbering crab, and the mad whale and started vending and quacking.

[Evil Martians @evilmartians]

Meet Andrey (@sitnikcode), our frontend principal and the creator of @PostCSS. He's also our first hire ever, which means he's been a Martian for 15 years.

Andrey is based in Barcelona, is a loving father, and is always down to meet up with team members IRL.

Check out his work: https://t.co/9XzRWrusAG

[@[email protected] @sitnikcode]

Tholmad is a unique writing system for the constructed language Vorgath.

The script is inspired by the seals of demons from the real medieval grimoire Ars Goetia (PostCSS version logos are based on these seals).

https://t.co/mtgRnWrBWu

[ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ @hamptonism]

im scared chat.

[@[email protected] @sitnikcode]

Oxford’s Word of the Year is “rage bait.”

Rage bait is the content deliberately crafted to provoke anger and go viral because of it (for example, all those “look how they dare …” posts).

Don’t repost rage bait.

[@[email protected] @sitnikcode]

Toki Pona is a very simple constructed language with only 125 root words.

https://t.co/OPFWIFYJyt

So it's easy to invent unusual writing systems for it.

Here are a hundred very unusual writing systems for Toki Pona.

https://t.co/VnVNmk0nG5

[@[email protected] @sitnikcode]

Cool writing system for the experimental language Toki Poka.

The language has only 128 words, each can have its own glyph, later combined into blocks like in Mayan or Korean.

And the author even made a custom font for it! Fonts are real programs.

https://t.co/8R7vlsCKSX

[いいフォント｜日本語フリーフォント紹介 @goodfreefonts]

ゲームにぴったりなピクセルフリーフォント！

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In 2014, people ran an experiment on Skype avoiding using any shared language like English, and developed their own pidgin-like language. That’s how Viossa was born.

It was based on Russian, Albanian, Japanese, Greek, Finnish, Norwegian, and German.

https://t.co/5KJGPCH70c

[@[email protected] @sitnikcode]

Kēlen is a constructed language that challenges the idea that verbs are essential for human languages.

https://t.co/vLPY0lpfkS

It also has a beautiful ceremonial interlace script written as knots on a continuous line:

https://t.co/bM39Jui9Jb
https://t.co/6Wi0CIJrUk

[Al Dragon @aldragon_net]

one-night stand
few nights stand
several nights stand
pack of nights stand
lots of nights stand
horde of nights stand
throng of nights stand
swarm of nights stand
zounds of nights stand
legion of nights stand

[@[email protected] @sitnikcode]

Of course, the logo for the collective dependency audit project has to be the most beautiful and insane Cyrillic letter, the Multiocular O

https://t.co/eYot7rITv4

[@[email protected] @sitnikcode]

When your task as an electronic music author is to break Wikipedia with the most insane use of Unicode in song titles.

https://t.co/Pvjm5ZCp2t

[@[email protected] @sitnikcode]

English orthography often doesn’t align well with spoken language. For example, there’s no standardized system to mark vowel length.

This has led to numerous projects aimed at introducing a proper phonetic alphabet into English.

https://t.co/eJpqQWCeeH
https://t.co/tHGhaYPVUB

[ValdikSS @ValdikSS]

I've no idea why proper typography aren't the default for a modern EU/US keyboard layout.
We usually have two extremes: software which replace regular characters with typography alternatives:

command --file "test"
into
command —file “test”

or silly looking text--like this.

[@[email protected] @sitnikcode]

In Japan, I see icons less often. Try to find the door open/close buttons on the panel in the subway.

But actually, characters are already icons themselves. So why come up with your own icons and hope people interpret them correctly, like we have to do?