People who think using the ligature "æ" makes them look smart are wankers

[TheLoadedDog]

@elmwood

˙sɹǝʇɔɐɹɐɥɔ lɐıɔǝds ǝɹnɔsqo ɹnoʎ ɥʇıʍ 'sɹǝʞuɐʍ snoıʇuǝʇǝɹd ɟo ɥɔunq ɐ ʇsnɾ llɐ ǝɹ,noʎ

Ok smartarse…

How’dja do that then?

[Lightray]

@Koxinga

I think it’s pretty wankerish to name somebody using IPA phonetic notation instead of English letters.

I see two possibilities for non-wankerdom in this case:

1. Litoris is, in fact, a phoneticist, and is instead a geek (akin to a Tolkeinist naming their kid Finwë)
2. Litoris’ kid is, actually, a Nordic-language speaking Viking.

… or maybe some combination of the two.

[JR_Brown]

@TheLoadedDog

Ok smartarse…

How’dja do that then?

Well, reading right to left: lambda (Unicode 03BB), o, n, comma, IPA turned r (0279), schwa (0258) = you’re, and so forth.

I still want to know how you get this message board to recognize special characters from a Mac other than those available from the “option+key” command… Mac keyboards have separate navigation keys, and the “number lock” key is completely without function when connected to a Mac, as far as I can tell. Is there another way of inputting the code?

ƒ®ß (although I’d like to be 2F03 2608 03B2*)

*Kangxi radical slash, thunderstorm, beta = JRB

[Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical]

@TheLoadedDog

Ok smartarse…

How’dja do that then?

Flip

[Sunspace]

@Don't fight the hypothetical

Flip

˙ʇsǝʇ ɐ sı sıɥʇ

Well, whadda ya know.

[Autolycus]

@Chimera

And here I thought I’d be cool by trying to resurrect Thorn

Oh! Oh! Can I join þe movement? No seriously!

[Starving_Artist]

˙pǝddılɟ uǝɥʍ ǝsɐɔ ɹǝʍol oʇ ʇɹǝʌǝɹ sdɐɔ˙˙˙ʇnq˙˙˙ʇnq
¿ʇɐp ʇıʍ dn,s

[Sunspace]

@Starving Artist

˙pǝddılɟ uǝɥʍ ǝsɐɔ ɹǝʍol oʇ ʇɹǝʌǝɹ sdɐɔ˙˙˙ʇnq˙˙˙ʇnq
¿ʇɐp ʇıʍ dn,s

I think what it’s doing is going through the Unicode character set and finding letters that look like upside-down regular English letters and doing a straight substitution. Maybe there isn’t one that looks like an upside-down capital T.

[bbs2k]

To be completely unsilly for a moment (brace yourselves), this past Christmas I got The complete Æon Flux series on DVD (the cartoon, not the bad movie). It was great, I could send my old VHS copies away in a recent White Elephant exchange.

Oh, and I still own the album Ænema by Tool.
Pretentious choice of spellings? Probably, which is why I usually just type “Aeon Flux” when I want to mention the show.

[sangfroid]

@bbs2k

To be completely unsilly for a moment (brace yourselves), this past Christmas I got The complete Æon Flux series on DVD (the cartoon, not the bad movie). It was great, I could send my old VHS copies away in a recent White Elephant exchange.

Oh, and I still own the album Ænema by Tool.
Pretentious choice of spellings? Probably, which is why I usually just type “Aeon Flux” when I want to mention the show.

Ae, bbs? Must be reading too much rhino lately…

[Triskadecamus]

I bet that would say “edited by elmwood, thirty seven times, in five minutes!” if the software was up to it.

Tris

[bbs2k]

@sangfroid

Ae, bbs? Must be reading too much rhino lately…

ryhno rhyno.

:smack:

[Starving_Artist]

@Sunspace

I think what it’s doing is going through the Unicode character set and finding letters that look like upside-down regular English letters and doing a straight substitution. Maybe there isn’t one that looks like an upside-down capital T.

Thanks.

I’m getting a kick out of discovering these character tricks now that I know to use the numeric keypad. I could never get a special character before because I was using the wrong numeral keys and so I never really looked into developing a vocabulary of them. Now I’ve got a list handy. Très cool.

[Malacandra]

If ever I revert to pretentious wankerdom, may my tongue turn to æes in my mouth.

[Dead_Badger]

The “x” key on my keyboard is broken, and has been for some time. Too skint to buy a new one, I’ve had to memorise “x” (alt+0120), “X” (alt+0088) and “^X” (alt+0024). It’s got to the point where if I work on a keyboard with a functioning x, I still find myself heading for the numeric keypad to properly eXpress myself.

Doesn’t work in Linux. Drives me nuts. Anyone know of an equivalent method for that?

[coffinjumper]

@elmwood

˙sɹǝʇɔɐɹɐɥɔ lɐıɔǝds ǝɹnɔsqo ɹnoʎ ɥʇıʍ 'sɹǝʞuɐʍ snoıʇuǝʇǝɹd ɟo ɥɔunq ɐ ʇsnɾ llɐ ǝɹ,noʎ

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@Don't fight the hypothetical

Flip

!XИAHT .∃ﻼЯOM UOY I TUd

[bufftabby]

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[hajario]

@Sunspace

I think what it’s doing is going through the Unicode character set and finding letters that look like upside-down regular English letters and doing a straight substitution. Maybe there isn’t one that looks like an upside-down capital T.

⊥

The upside down “T” looking thing is a symbol in mathematics that means perpendicular.

[guizot]

@Lightray

/æ/ is the low, front, unrounded vowel (American usage) or, erm… (flips through IPA book)… low, front, unrounded vowel in IPA – lower than /ε/, higher than /a/ in both. What word you might use it in will probably vary by what accent you have. Basically dropped out of English with the Great Vowel Shift, IIRC.

/ae/ is just a diphthong – it’s two vowels, smooshed together. They’re not interchangable, and someone who uses the one for the other is, indeed, a wanker.

Sometimes when people write in German, and they can’t do umlauts for whatever reason, they just put an e after the letter to be umlauted. Maybe that’s why someone would do it, but then it would be more like /ε/. I don’t know why anyone would put it in “encyclopedia,” or why OP thinks they do it to look “smart.”

[ArizonaTeach]

Pretentiousness, thy name is “Hallowe’en”.

(Or using the word “thy”)