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Devine Lu Linvega

rek: Could you help translate a poem into a whistling composition?
me: HOLD MY *DO* *SI* *FA* *RE*

Devine Lu Linvega

I don't know why I've never noticed it before, but the "B" key on the thinkpad is slightly misaligned vertically. It's hella distracting now that I've seen it.

Ross Schulman

@neauoire Oh god, that's it. You might just have to throw the laptop in the ocean at this point. At least, I would never be able to unsee that.

Sam Nabi

@neauoire Good excuse to make custom keycaps now 😌

Z@b0\/\/

@neauoire on my X200s all letters are on the top left in the same way. maybe it's related to the trackpoint nub in yours?

Devine Lu Linvega

Made up an ascii encoding in parallel to the Shavian script so I can quickly input it in my little dictionary rom.

Sebastian LaVine

@neauoire It's asking to be represented in just 3 bits though!

Floppy 💾

@neauoire The translation from the Shavian glyphs to Ascii mostly make sense to me.

But for "sol", why did you go for 'z' (resembling forward slash) instead of e.g. 's' (resembling a flipped 'z' or back slash)?

Bad Diode

@neauoire is this making jam on a train (orange jam, pear jam, etc.), jamming a train, making music on a train or coding on a train? lol English is fun

Devine Lu Linvega

I love having little characters adorn project pages, and I so I've asked @rek to draw a version of Elemenopi's #Solresol from the Prolangs webcomic.

I love it!!

Character with rainbow hair color, with a pair of dungarees with patterns from the Solresol stenography.
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curved-ruler

@neauoire @rek
Don't know if you know about this, there is a novel by an author I really like
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_t

(read a long time ago, can't really recall the details, need to read again)

David JONES

@neauoire @rek I love Renee French's avatars for Plan9 and Go

Devine Lu Linvega

I saw someone on the sidosi forums mention that the Shavian alphabet had enough glyphs to cover Vincent Gajewski's #solresol stenography script.

𐑴 do
𐑦 re
𐑵 mi
𐑯 fa
𐑳 sol
𐑤 la
𐑪 si

example: 𐑳𐑴𐑦𐑵 "theatre"

edit: Oh! Vincent's script is based on the Curwen hand signage! haha
wiki.xxiivv.com/site/solresol.

olive ⁂

@neauoire Will u be trying to figure out some way to combine the glyphs to form words like Gajewski intended (maybe with some CSS nonsense?) IMO it makes them harder to interpret but look cooler. Also thank u for learning in the open! Got me really interested in conlangs again :]

common words as solresol glyphs by Vincent Gajewski, from wikipedia
Devine Lu Linvega

rek: "You know what's a shame?"
me: "no, what"
rek: "That they didn't call the ambulance ferry, the amphibulance."

Devine Lu Linvega

Got the latest slowdive a few days ago, I've been listening pretty much on loop non-stop since. I can't get over how good it is. Perfect background to spending these last few days of summer to draw on.

tvaughan

@neauoire Thanks for the recommendation. I didn’t know they put out a new album. Yeah, it’s awesome

Devine Lu Linvega

You know what's hard to draw in perspective? An heptagon.

Helvetica Blanc

@neauoire I refuse. Medieval perspective forever! 😤

Devine Lu Linvega

La solsilasol remilami(communication lantern) concept with shutters on a pivot, for Solresol conversation at night.

I imagine each pull-handle would hit a little bell tuned to each Solresol symbol to validate each part of the message to the sender.

dok

@neauoire thanks !
It is not perfect but I like it. I should draw more

Devine Lu Linvega

@patchlore Hey paul, I was wondering. You have a lot of voice synthesis projects, and I was thinking. Do you think you could feed a few notes to one of them to simulate someone whistling?

tbsp

@neauoire @rek I'm imagining a small handheld device with a coloured keyboard (no screen) and a single wired earbud, used for wireless radio messenging in Solresol. 🤔

Devine Lu Linvega

@rek fadomisi faremi sisolfasol

"the desert/uninhabited is loud/deafening"

Devine Lu Linvega

Rek and I were looking for a way for characters in Wiktopher to communicate by whistling, and decided on choosing Solresol as the ideal #conlang to use for this specific part of the story. I ended up spending the better part of this week learning enough about it so I could translate a few poems and songs for the book. I've collected a bunch of (extremely COLORFUL) notes from all over at:
wiki.xxiivv.com/site/solresol.

Solfege with colors.
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Tommy Carlier

@neauoire In David Walton's sci-fi book "The Genius Plague", people infected by a fungus also use a whistling language.

hi waporwave!

@neauoire I've thought for a while about a whistling conlang, but I think that recognizing specific notes is maybe not something everyone can do? I thought maybe low mid high would be very easy for most, but probably too small for anything more than a few code word calls. Maybe there's a middle ground between ease of use and usefulness? In any case I think frequency based instead of note name is more reliable so that there aren't duplicates

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