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gabriel_laddel: project. I would suggest that no one waste their time working on this for the time being, I've simply cleaned things up on the off chance that I end up in alphabet soup or the like. The remainder of hacking that needs to be done is of the flavor described here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gabriel-laddel/masamune/master/browser/conkeror.lisp
jurov: http://bturn.com/10286/soviet-erotic-alphabet :B mircea_popescu asciilifeform
nubbins`: also korean alphabet +1 top kek
gabriel_laddel: right now I'm writing up a thing so that anyone can finish it off, in case I run into alphabet soup or w/e
asciilifeform: or simply to the fact that straight line of alphabet yes, can unambiguously describe everything. but it takes titanic space for a large class of concepts
adlai: i'm guessing the ones for hire have hardcoded, monolithic parser-compilers, from countless hours spent translating the same encoding... sure, it's impressive to watch, but useless when a new alphabet pops up
asciilifeform: this is how you tell the difference. but this is elementary alphabet to #b-a folks
gribble: Roman Charity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Charity>; Roman Love / Caritas Romana — The Theological Anthropology Blog: <http://theologicalanthropology.com/alphabet-of-love/2013/11/7/roman-love-caritas-romana>; Caritas Romana - KMSKA: <http://www.kmska.be/en/collectie/highlights/CimonenPero.html>
mircea_popescu: sorta fringe-y, sorta-angry but not really, "let's make a new alphabet"
decimation: http://archive.csustan.edu/Music/handbook/Vocal_Major_Requirmnts.html "Knowledge of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) for English and Italian Sight reading"
BingoBoingo: Ah, Yeah, it's a pain. Latin alphabet works one way, Anglophones have retarded vowel shift, the irrelevance of Chinese supposes azns should look to Castellano as a lingua franca for dealing with white people.
decimation: asciilifeform: you are implying you can encode the entire alphabet evenly
nubbins` waves to alphabet employees
pete_dushenski: sounds like hebrew but with german alphabet
BingoBoingo: http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?sche=dongxi&id=22327319935&spm=2014.21481949.1.0 << Why I'm rooting for Spanish to win the language war. I can deal with a Latin alphabet.
asciilifeform: modern 'neural network' ocr - at least for latin alphabet - is 99+% accurate. sadly this is not enough to dispense with the original images.
mircea_popescu: ima have to get a different obscure alphabet now.
decimation: heh yeah it's pretty easy to memorize another alphabet, it's much harder to remember grammar & vocabulary
assbot: NATO phonetic alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
decimation: the international standard is now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet
assbot: Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
decimation: In the ww-ii era the US used mostly first names instead of the nato alphabet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Army/Navy_Phonetic_Alphabet
asciilifeform: decimation: nothing useful to understand - military alphabet plus numeric codes.
Rassah: <mircea_popescu> Ah, forgot about that one. Sorry, I was trolling the bitcoin trolls, and explaining things to any alphabet soup agencies that may be listening.
mircea_popescu: but you know... what now, make books that even people who won't learn the alphabet can read ?
Mats_cd03: yeah learning the korean alphabet is easy
mircea_popescu: they also released the known but apparently not widely known fact that coinbase is forwarding all tx history to teh us alphabet soup on a daily basis.
ozbot: Project Unspell: Why doesn't it use the Latin alphabet?
asciilifeform: http://unspell.blogspot.com/2013/11/why-doesnt-it-use-latin-alphabet.html
mircea_popescu: as far as the alphabet soup is concerned, the ideal situation is to have everything penetrated by people like kenna.
greenspan_fan: I can't even find a keyboard that has the greek alphabet in it
mircea_popescu: shorter alphabet / longer verses.
mircea_popescu: shorter alphabet basicall ?
BingoBoingo: jurov: Sure Rot13 where the alphabet consists entirely of Zeros might be prefect.
gribble: (rot13 <text>) -- Rotates <text> 13 characters to the right in the alphabet. Rot13 is commonly used for text that simply needs to be hidden from inadvertent reading by roaming eyes, since it's easily reversible.
mircea_popescu: The breakthrough came when they decoded the symbol that represented the letter C, which enabled them to slowly begin to understand the rest of the strange alphabet."
BingoBoingo: There is an Alphabet Soup Agency Agent right now reading all of Bitcointalk's posts and being pissed that the guy in the neighboring cubicle gets to instead just read the -assets log and follow any linked content.
mircea_popescu: dub here, because i like you so : http://trilema.com/2013/the-disadvantage-of-teaching-people-the-alphabet-and-nothing-more-is-that-you-have-to-somehow-put-up-with-a-bunch-of-retards-that-can-now-express-themselves-in-writing/
pankkake: " The latin alphabet (abc...) was created thousands of years ago, and is optimized for writing, not reading." that's quite the statement
tiberiusix: its if the other alphabet FBI is involved
mircea_popescu: lippopper the alphabet soup compartimentalisation is of little practical consequence