******** Some fuckers on Wikipedia deleted the multilingual list of pangrams in October 2014 and I didn't notice until I wanted to test text compressors for Twitter on those English ones. Now, how do I occasionally test my default fonts without CSS hacks, since Wikipedia doesn't dictate a specific typeset? I've added an external link for the resurrected page (clagnut.com/blog/2380) for possible confused people, hope they don't remove it. ********
Imagine that you have a brand new dumb phone with a goddamn expensive MMS messages and calls, so you have to rely on SMS. For each 7-bit ASCII you can have 160 characters in 128 bytes. For any longer SMSs, you have to split them and send them sequentially, which might get lost if you don't write the message number in the sequence to somewhere, costing you at least 4 characters ("x/y:").
Now there's twitter, building on the foundation of these txtlng messages and taking 20 characters for user ID. Fortunately, you can have 140 Unicode characters, which allows you to cheat a little by combining letters and accents to form seemingly normal output (as on tweetcompressor.com) and cool smileys like ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ( ͜。 ͡ʖ ͜。) ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ. But for my eloquent English this isn't barely acceptable, even Facebook's former 420 characters (later 480 and 6000) per status were too few sometimes. Also see my Screamtracker 3 module comments in place of the instrument/sample names:
99 * 27 = 2601 characters. In 4k modules I can't do even this since it would waste the precious space, whereas in 64k I can use this to pad remaining space since most people search for 64k modules by looking just under 64 kB and go downward, because 32k+1 (32769 B) is really unfortunate or at least for a compo that mixed 32k chiptune and 64k (not necessarily a chiptune) in the last moment for too few contestants. In Amiga modules (31 samples), there are 31 * 22 = 682 characters, almost 2 good old Facebook statuses.
Thus you see, even names of certain articles on this blog are sometimes over 111 characters, so the shortest possible URL with the "getmania.blogspot.**/****/**/" still wouldn't fit and I don't trust the URL shorteners, they may go down. Also who argues there's no limit for YouTube decsription is a liar, because if it weren't, I would be able to make longer ones under my videos. I guess it's around 4 kB to fit in a single allocation unit.
Even though there are many practical advantages of txtlng, it causes young people to misspell quite often when writing in normal English, since they aren't accustomated to see many words in their full, albeit lenghthy form. Also the letter case is important in txtlng, which some people don't differentiate, thus increase homonymity and context specificity requirements. I prefer text unencoded in txtlng for extended bodies or outside context, where abbreviations stop making sense. Still, I don't like reading long books. Even then, the only strange thing on my Getmanglish is the more Latin pronunciation (standard English one not acheived through reading), mainly concerning hard C (kyber, Keleron, Kyprus (but not Cypress or celebrate)) and G (Getmania is not Jetmania, M$ Sam approves) as well as Greek CH (techno, architect). Endings are normal (tragedy has hard G because of tragés (goat), but chronology has J). This is relevant to my liking of the restitued pronunciation in Latin, as I can actually pronounce AE and OE. Cicero would get mad if you called him Saysrow and not Kikero (written in http://getmania.blogspot.cz/2014/08/speling-niids-tu-bii-riformd-es-stuupid.html). It's difficult for to make English TTS engines to say certain diphthongs.
140it.com went down in 2012, now only unusable http://web.archive.org/web/20121102145006/http://140it.com/. You can use this dictionary for most non-txtlng exclusives:
Hais, Karel - Hodek, Břetislav: Velký anglicko-český slovník: III. díl S-Z. Praha: Academia, 1985. Strana 2693-2770 1. vydání. ISBN 21-133-85.
Little dictionary:
sys system
sux sucks
C see/sea
Tis this/it is/was/has
notha another
cos because
smp sample/simple
2 two/to/too
sth something
snd sound
CZ Czechia
U you
y(r) year/your
y year
Y why
4 for
fortly fortunately
char character
comp compose/compute/comlete/compare
d day
tbl table
esp especially
kbd keyboard
stms sometimes
rcnt recent
tmp tempo/temporary
tmpr temporary
spc space/specs
thru through
2B to be
abt about
ltd limited
UR you are
Ur your
chk check
h8 hate
eff efficient/effect
F efficient/effect
w/ with
w/o without
cp copy/checkpoint
atm at the moment
ATM bancomat (yes, adopt this word, it's good)
pir8 pirate/pie-rate
min minute(s)/minimum
A hey
B be
CU see you
D the/thee/dick
E the
F have/of
G Jesus (Gee)
H age
J jay
K gay/fuck you, I'm too lazy to type
L el/hell/ill/I'll
M them/'em
N en-/an(d)
O oh
P pee
Q -(c)k you (as in fuQ)
R are
S ass/as
T tea/T-shirt/thee
V we/wee/veg(etari)an
W clone (Double, you!)
X ex(-)/axe
Z see/that/set
1 one/(v)an
8 ate
3 free/tree
6 sicks/sex
7 -s(e) even (as in tho7)
9 NEIN
Imagine that you have a brand new dumb phone with a goddamn expensive MMS messages and calls, so you have to rely on SMS. For each 7-bit ASCII you can have 160 characters in 128 bytes. For any longer SMSs, you have to split them and send them sequentially, which might get lost if you don't write the message number in the sequence to somewhere, costing you at least 4 characters ("x/y:").
Now there's twitter, building on the foundation of these txtlng messages and taking 20 characters for user ID. Fortunately, you can have 140 Unicode characters, which allows you to cheat a little by combining letters and accents to form seemingly normal output (as on tweetcompressor.com) and cool smileys like ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ( ͜。 ͡ʖ ͜。) ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ. But for my eloquent English this isn't barely acceptable, even Facebook's former 420 characters (later 480 and 6000) per status were too few sometimes. Also see my Screamtracker 3 module comments in place of the instrument/sample names:
99 * 27 = 2601 characters. In 4k modules I can't do even this since it would waste the precious space, whereas in 64k I can use this to pad remaining space since most people search for 64k modules by looking just under 64 kB and go downward, because 32k+1 (32769 B) is really unfortunate or at least for a compo that mixed 32k chiptune and 64k (not necessarily a chiptune) in the last moment for too few contestants. In Amiga modules (31 samples), there are 31 * 22 = 682 characters, almost 2 good old Facebook statuses.
Thus you see, even names of certain articles on this blog are sometimes over 111 characters, so the shortest possible URL with the "getmania.blogspot.**/****/**/" still wouldn't fit and I don't trust the URL shorteners, they may go down. Also who argues there's no limit for YouTube decsription is a liar, because if it weren't, I would be able to make longer ones under my videos. I guess it's around 4 kB to fit in a single allocation unit.
Even though there are many practical advantages of txtlng, it causes young people to misspell quite often when writing in normal English, since they aren't accustomated to see many words in their full, albeit lenghthy form. Also the letter case is important in txtlng, which some people don't differentiate, thus increase homonymity and context specificity requirements. I prefer text unencoded in txtlng for extended bodies or outside context, where abbreviations stop making sense. Still, I don't like reading long books. Even then, the only strange thing on my Getmanglish is the more Latin pronunciation (standard English one not acheived through reading), mainly concerning hard C (kyber, Keleron, Kyprus (but not Cypress or celebrate)) and G (Getmania is not Jetmania, M$ Sam approves) as well as Greek CH (techno, architect). Endings are normal (tragedy has hard G because of tragés (goat), but chronology has J). This is relevant to my liking of the restitued pronunciation in Latin, as I can actually pronounce AE and OE. Cicero would get mad if you called him Saysrow and not Kikero (written in http://getmania.blogspot.cz/2014/08/speling-niids-tu-bii-riformd-es-stuupid.html). It's difficult for to make English TTS engines to say certain diphthongs.
140it.com went down in 2012, now only unusable http://web.archive.org/web/20121102145006/http://140it.com/. You can use this dictionary for most non-txtlng exclusives:
Hais, Karel - Hodek, Břetislav: Velký anglicko-český slovník: III. díl S-Z. Praha: Academia, 1985. Strana 2693-2770 1. vydání. ISBN 21-133-85.
Little dictionary:
sys system
sux sucks
C see/sea
Tis this/it is/was/has
notha another
cos because
smp sample/simple
2 two/to/too
sth something
snd sound
CZ Czechia
U you
y(r) year/your
y year
Y why
4 for
fortly fortunately
char character
comp compose/compute/comlete/compare
d day
tbl table
esp especially
kbd keyboard
stms sometimes
rcnt recent
tmp tempo/temporary
tmpr temporary
spc space/specs
thru through
2B to be
abt about
ltd limited
UR you are
Ur your
chk check
h8 hate
eff efficient/effect
F efficient/effect
w/ with
w/o without
cp copy/checkpoint
atm at the moment
ATM bancomat (yes, adopt this word, it's good)
pir8 pirate/pie-rate
min minute(s)/minimum
A hey
B be
CU see you
D the/thee/dick
E the
F have/of
G Jesus (Gee)
H age
J jay
K gay/fuck you, I'm too lazy to type
L el/hell/ill/I'll
M them/'em
N en-/an(d)
O oh
P pee
Q -(c)k you (as in fuQ)
R are
S ass/as
T tea/T-shirt/thee
V we/wee/veg(etari)an
W clone (Double, you!)
X ex(-)/axe
Z see/that/set
1 one/(v)an
8 ate
3 free/tree
6 sicks/sex
7 -s(e) even (as in tho7)
9 NEIN
