Linguistics

Remember: having more than one natural language is bad for the world.

What you Google-into when trying to understand English slangs as of 2020.

Middle names are a weird custom.

It's like a semi-secret part of your name that you only randomly use sometimes, and usually only in initials, and which no one else knows except your family.

It is as if the Anglo-Saxons were preparing for a real world Death Note attack I know your true name-style.

Many East Asians, notably Chinese immigrants, choose to adopt a Western name pseudonym to make it easier for Western people who don't speak the language to call them and remember their name.

Cowards! Ciro Santilli would much rather just torture foreigners into learning his language. But fair play.

More interestingly however, some of the names chosen are not typical names, and some end up being very cute or mildly funny. Perhaps it is partly linked to given names are getting weirder.

Bibliography:

Euphemisms are evil bullshit.

Just say what you mean to say,

Don't be a pussy.

If you've been fired, say you been fired, not "let go".

If someone died, say they died, not "passed away".

Creator of Basic English.

See also: having more than one natural language is bad for the world.

When talking in the context of programming languages, natural language is the non-computer one.

Remember: having more than one natural language is bad for the world.

1925 by Charles Kay Ogden.

1959 by Voice of America.

Good luck.

Ciro Santilli had to see this in a few separate places, until he underestood: that little pictur emust be a thing! Examples:

As if Chinese character weren't evil enough, their fast hand written form is even more unintelligible. It is like Hell within Hell.

It is also very beautiful it must be said.

Somewhat midway between a syllabary and an alphabet: you write out consonants, and vowels are "punctuation-like-modifiers".

E.g.: the main Hindi script (devanagari) and most other Indian languages.

Unlike abugida, these actually make you guess vowels, which are mostly or all not written down in any way. Terrible.

E.g.: the main Arabic script.

Unfortunately, physicists and mathematicians keep using Greek letters in their formulas, so we just have to learn them.

A helpful way to remember is to learn a bit of their history/pronunciation: Section "Historical correspondence between Latin and Greek".

To learn the greek letters if you have a base latin alphabet, you must learn the sound of each letter, and which Latin letters they correspond to.

Symbols that look like Greek letters but are not Greek letters:

Is Ciro Santilli crazy (he is, but for this point specifically), or do many/most Greek letters represent the mouth position used in the pronunciation of the letter?

It is fun to see that C and G have been confused since antiquity:

Confusingly, in LaTeX:

Lower case looks like the mouth shape when you say Z, with mouth open, and you can even see the little tongue going down. Beauty.

Lowercase looks like a lowercase letter N for some reason.

Why would physicists use a letter such that:Why? Why?????????

This one is a little confusing: the upper case looks exactly like a letter P, but as the name suggests, it actually corresponds to the letter R. The letter P corresponds to pi instead.

Two lower case variants... both used in mathematical notation, and for some reason, in LaTeX \varphi is the one that actually looks like the default standard modern lowercase phi, while \phi is the weird one. I love life.

As if it weren't enough, there's also a Cyrillic script psi that is slightly different. Life's great.

Derivation from older alphabets: en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_the_Latin_script&oldid=1042752124#Derivation_from_Egyptian_hieroglyphs

Remember: having more than one natural language is bad for the world.

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=turd%20polishing on Urban Dictionary.

Ciro Santilli learned this expression from Angry Video Game Nerd.

On Urban Dictionary: www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=no%20pun%20intended

One, single. Actual word: μόνος.

Ahh, Ciro Santilli was certain this was some slang neologism, but it is actually Greek! So funny. Introduced into English in the 19th century according to: www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kudo.

Some remarks on the language at: cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/does-ciro-santilli-speak-chinese