| arkydo | rindolf: How different is modern Hebrew from classical Hebrew in terms of grammar? |
| rindolf | arkydo: Classical Hebrew? What's that? |
| thrig | presumably with tuxes and violins instead of guitars |
| rindolf | arkydo: there was Biblical Hebrew, Mishna'ic Hebrew, Medieval Hebrew, post-Medieval Hebrew, and Modern Hebrew. |
| stan\0 | how confusing |
| arkydo | rindolf: biblical Hebrew I mean. |
| grothendieck | Post-Modern Hebrew :P |
| rindolf | arkydo: I think Modern Hebrew is using the grammar of the Mishna'ic Hebrew with the vocabulary of the Biblical Hebrew. |
| thrig | Atonal Hebrew, Serial Hebrew, Minimal Hebrew |
| rindolf | arkydo: you can understand a large part of the Bible, but the grammar sounds different. |
| rindolf | arkydo: though you get used to it. |
| Vicissitude | what about homebrew Hebrew? |
| rindolf | Vicissitude: perlbrew Hebrew! |
| Vicissitude | :) |
| rindolf | perlall Hebrew. |
| rindolf | local-lib Hebrew. |
| alpha- | we should all just stick to ASCII |
| alpha- | and learn English |
| alpha- | would make things so much easier |
| rindolf | alpha-: and less interesting, too. |
| rindolf | alpha-: and less enlightening. |
| rindolf | But that was a joke. |
| mauke | ASCII isn't enough for English |
| rindolf | “128 characters should be enough for everybody.” ;-) |
| mauke | don’t be naïve |
| thrig | I'm sure we can all coöperate on some solution |
| rindolf | mauke: give me ASCII or give me deaþ! |
| mauke | rindolf: ☠ |
| rindolf | mauke: thanks. |
| * rindolf | takes the Unicode death thingy from mauke. |
| mauke | there's also ⺞ |
| thrig | huh. https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=%E2%98%A0 really google? nothing? |
| petn-randall | I think we should all go back to grunting in two tones |
| stan\0 | i think Google broke |
| stan\0 | for some people at least |
| petn-randall | Then we only need one bit for every sound we make |
| stan\0 | only gives me shit |
| rindolf | https://www.google.com/search?q=foobar - seems to work. |
| stan\0 | i meant the quality of results returned is subpar |
| rindolf | petn-randall: wheee... whaaa? |
| mauke | uh-huh |
| petn-randall | rindolf: Exactly. |
| petn-randall | Then we could get of this 'ASCII' everyone's talking about, too |
| rindolf | petn-randall: whooo! |
| rindolf | Ooops. |
| petn-randall | rindolf: You overdid it, how am I gonna get those three cries into one bit?! |
| rindolf | petn-randall: use UTF-cries. |
| petn-randall | I could use compression, I guess ... |
| rindolf | Or UTF-1 |
| * petn-randall | snickers |