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[Yax]

I've seen some card machines in San Francisco which accept contactless payment. Is the United States slowly moving into the 21st century?

This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.

 

[Yax]

There is no method to my madness. I just really felt like responding with a Matrix quote.

 

[Dr. Eddies Wingman]

There is no method to my madness

You're just playing with it?

 

[Yax]

You're just playing with it?

Well yeah, there is no vision here at all. Literally. I really need to clean my glasses.

 

[Diesel 11]

So for a while now I’ve been researching / studying / spending my free time mucking about with languages and letters and whatnot. One of the coolest things I’ve found is the set of ocular O’s once used in Old Church Slavonic, my favorite of which is the multiocular O, the rarest ‘letter’ in Cyrillic because it was only ever used in the phrase “many-eyed seraphim”.

The ocular O’s in general were only used in the word that translates to “eye” (and its other forms) in English. This is all new info to me but do any others here know about them? We’re they just stylistic, “æsthetic” ways to bring to life the noun, sort of like dotting I’s in love letters with hearts, or is there a bigger backstory here that the internet won’t let me find?

 

[Black Wizard]

There is no method to my madness

 

[Dr. Eddies Wingman]

So for a while now I’ve been researching / studying / spending my free time mucking about with languages and letters and whatnot

Byuuried in language history?

 

[Diesel 11]

Byuuried in language history?

Pretty much, lol. I’ve even forcibly evolved my handwriting to add in elements of Old English, German, and Cyrillic languages into it. Dunno about the people reading it but I’m having fun.

 

[Magnus]

Old Church Slavonic

Objection.
It's Old Bulgarian.
Some very confused peeps name it Old Macedonian.

 

[Diesel 11]

Objection.
It's Old Bulgarian.

Has Wikipedia been pulling my leg this whole time?

 

[Magnus]

Has Wikipedia been pulling my leg this whole time?

Confuddled, maybe.

 

[Diesel 11]

Hmmmm. Investigation time.

 

[Magnus]

^It was a tongue-in-cheek Megalobulgaropatriotic comment.
Yet, Church Slavonic is basically Russified Old Bulgarian. When Russians discovered philology, they named the previous stage of Church Slavonic (minus Russian elements) Old Church Slavonic. Which is actually Old Bulgarian.
Yet again, I'm a palaeontologist working on fossil elephants, and even though fil does mean elephant, that doesn't make me a philologist.

 

[Black Wizard]

Languages are Perun's domain.

 

[Diesel 11]

^It was a tongue-in-cheek Megalobulgaropatriotic comment.
Yet, Church Slavonic is basically Russified Old Bulgarian. When Russians discovered philology, they named the previous stage of Church Slavonic (minus Russian elements) Old Church Slavonic. Which is actually Old Bulgarian.
Yet again, I'm a palaeontologist working on fossil elephants, and even though fil does mean elephant, that doesn't make me a philologist.

Oh, lol. Yeah text always seems to hide the inner joke.

 

[MrKnickerbocker]

Just upgraded my computer to MacOS Catalina and I've never been more angry with myself.

 

[Yax]

You mean you want to use your DAW plugins?

 

[MrKnickerbocker]

You mean you want to use your DAW plugins?

I don’t know what that means.

 

[LooseCannon]

Just upgraded my computer to MacOS Catalina and I've never been more angry with myself.

I used to work for Apple. I enjoy macOS. Catalina is a fucking cluster of a mess.

 

[Yax]

I don’t know what that means.

Your purchased EQ's, compressors and reverbs etc for Logic, or whatever software you use for your music.