@aeva depgth, girgth, bredth

@aeva weight

@aeva better still, rename the other two: lenth and heith!

@aeva very appropriate for calculating widget dimensions

@aeva why not? The 'g' is silent anyway. Not like it would be any *more* confusing than anything else in English.😋

@aeva I hate this... only because it makes entirely too much sense.

@aeva anarchist take:

wide
high
tall
deep
long <-- curse you, C

@aeva len
wid
hei

@aeva maybe, but what about heidth and lengdth (and depdth), or perhaps more daringly, hidth, lidth and dipdth

@aeva

Next April you need to send a PR to some code base that would have a lot of changes, like Gnome.

@aeva spell checkers hate these replies

@aeva

@aeva widge

@aeva And the pronunciation doesn't even have to change XD

@aeva Just gonna leave this here.

@aeva size vector? Eliminate potential ambiguity over mapping to the dimensions.

@aeva can we also change to "heigth" for consistency?

@aeva Good idea, but people will fight over the pronunciation of the 'G', so maybe it should be an 'H' to just make things more confusing and fun instead.

@aeva and for consistency, heigth

@aeva wiff, tall, lomg

@aeva it took me an embarrassing amount of time to spot the difference

@aeva heigth

@aeva
I don’t remember if it was 1st or 2nd grade, but this seemed right to me then.

I could adapt to this easier than the many abominations such as “thru.”

@aeva @overeducatedredneck Yes!

Also, "up" to "up", and "right" to "rite", so all four cardinal directions can be 4 characters!

@aeva @Meyerweb look, if we’re going that far, let’s rename “height” to “heigth”

@aeva May I suggest wideth:
ｗｉｄｅｔｈ
ｈｅｉｇｈｔ
ｌｅｎｇｔｈ

And if you program in fraktur it really helps to bring home that ye-olde look.

𝖛𝖆𝖗 𝔴𝔦𝔡𝔢𝔱𝔥 = "XXXVI𝔭𝔵";
𝖛𝖆𝖗 𝔥𝔢𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱 = "XXIV𝔭𝔵";

...

@aeva this is cursed

@aeva wideth, longth, highth, deepth

@aeva Also for consistency with cursed English spelling rules.

@aeva I hate that I'm swayed by this.

@aeva I'm thinking "wideness", "tallness", and "deepness" could be fun too.

@aeva

& then you could abbreviate them "wid", "hei", & "len," & confuse the crap out of everybody, because those actually makes more sense than they should.

@aeva you could use vvidth.

@aeva

@aeva, why not wigth?

@aeva Gimme the RFC number. Will endorse.

@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place Chinese: 宽度 高度 长度 meow~

@aeva hear me out : marging

@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place But they spell differently. Should be changed to wength, hength, length etc.

@aeva yes please. While we're at it, can we rename height to heigth? Those two letters being swapped is beyond frustrating, especially for non-native speakers

@aeva can we have "heiht" and "lenth" instead

@aeva OMG this has bothered me for the longest time!

@aeva sorry, no time for signing a petition, I'm hard at work on my new employee re-gruntler.

@aeva i propose heiht and lenth

@aeva th needs us more than we need it

@aeva no, can‘t do. This would result in an additional word that sounds too similar: which, witch, widght

@aeva if I saw a library used “lat”/“long” instead of “lat”/“lng”, I’d instantly start looking elsewhere.

@aeva Or, define objects only by:

x = width
y = height
z = depth

@aeva hight anx lenth

@aeva then height to heigth for consistency of the last 3 letters ?

@aeva Dis is de hite of good ideas rite hyr

@aeva how about "widthg" though

@aeva I love this. I just love it

@aeva depgth

@aeva but then you'd need to rename depth too...

@aeva would you accept wideth?

@aeva why nhot just add another rhandom h?
whidth
rhythm
Wheigt

@aeva While you're at it, how about "heigth"? 😂.
Cosistency all the way.

@aeva
Why not formalise that thing people do when they say "heighth"?
@ReticentTurnip

@aeva what about a font ligature that will span width an extra character when the word width is found?

@aeva
Wideth highth longth

@aeva I second this, and also ask again that we reintroduce ð and þ to the English language. In ðat case, ðe words become widgþ, height and lengþ.

(I'm sorry and will show myself out.)

@aeva No! I shall not sign your petition! I've always thought that the width was the smaller dimension, so I reject the consistency argument. PS: I try to avoid squares.

@aeva Oh, you mean the six degres of fredom: height, length, dephgt, picthg, yawhtg, and roltgh? /* clasic unifrm spelng */

@aeva this convention would replace a lot of unnecessary size.x/y/z structs in my code.

@aeva I prefer heith and lenth tbh

@aeva

widþ
higþ
lenþ

@aeva also, what’s going on with “twelve” and “twelfth”

@aeva And no one bats an eye for the order of th/ht? Drop the g and h al together! heit lent widt weit and be done with it!

@aeva
vvidth would work too.

@aeva weedth

@aeva @airshipper That’s SO nerdy. I absolutely adore it.

@aeva counter-proposal: width, heith, lenth

@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place fr this drives me nuts ​:neocat_googly_shocked:​

@aeva

It makes more sense than the rest of the English language, really.

@aeva You'll be hearing from the lawyers of 1970s programmers for wasting characters like that.

@aeva how about width and hight

@aeva heigth

@aeva This tickles my linguistic funny bone so danged much. :)

@aeva

Alternative suggestion:

Replace length width and height in variable names with long wide and high.

This will however limit the languages which you can work in.

@aeva this is definitely something I've hallucinated after looking at all of those words for so long they don't look like words anymore, thank you for making it make sense

@aeva
length
heigth
widgth
depgth
girgth

@aeva seems like a nice custom monospace coding font could manage this for you via a ligature? Make one of the characters duospaced to taste…

@aeva I’d prefer length/hength/wength or height/leight/weight or width/hidth/lidth

@aeva ah so that's why English spelling is Like That

@aeva
I code in proportional fonts.

Take that heretic :neocat_evil:

@aeva Oh, I love this thread, thank you.

@aeva Alternatively, we could have "width", "heith", and "lenth" to save characters all around while preserving pronunciation (at least for some).

if we get 100_000 boosts on this petition toot in under 30 days the obama administration has to weigh in on it

@aeva

If we really cared about consistency we'd align on both digits and also suffix consistency. Clearly, we need length, widgth and heigth.

@aeva
Countered with : "wide, "high" and "long" please.

@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place I'm trying to say widght out loud and it sounds very Arabic to me

@aeva @nicklockwood Will the 'g' be pronounced as in JIF or GIF?