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[Linguoboy]

By the way, just in case you want to feel old, today is the first day on which a Jewish boy born on the day that Lady Gaga's Bad Romance was officially released might have his Bar Mitzvah.

Oh good, that means that the asshole that I had a crush on when this song came out is probably dead by now or close to it.

[Zju]

That was Tarkin, the other villain,

Oh, sorry, my bad.

Apology accepted.

*force-chokes*

Oh, maaan! You force-spilled my beer!

[dɮ the phoneme]

I think I may be synesthetic. I strongly associate sounds with tastes/smells, to the degree that in fact the name of a food can affect how it tastes to me. The strongest taste association is between labial and retroflex sounds and peanut butter. One of the reasons I enjoy languages with a lot of retroflexes (for which the association is strongest) is that they "taste good" to me. Interestingly I think this is part of why I don't like German, it "smells" like hot rubber/plastic a lot of the time, which gives me a headache. Not sure which sounds are causing this exactly.

[foxcatdog]

I think I may be synesthetic. I strongly associate sounds with tastes/smells, to the degree that in fact the name of a food can affect how it tastes to me. The strongest taste association is between labial and retroflex sounds and peanut butter. One of the reasons I enjoy languages with a lot of retroflexes (for which the association is strongest) is that they "taste good" to me. Interestingly I think this is part of why I don't like German, it "smells" like hot rubber/plastic a lot of the time, which gives me a headache. Not sure which sounds are causing this exactly.

What does your titular phoneme taste like?

[quinterbeck]

Today I learned there are fonts that style '&' in a shape that resembles its origin 'et', like this:

[alice]

Today I learned there are fonts that style '&' in a shape that resembles its origin 'et', like this:

That's a lot nicer than a lazy curly "E" with a vertical line through it, which I've always disliked.

[doctor shark]

Random: I actually got hired to work on a commission for banknote designs that this person's going to print. It's my first commission like this in a very long time, and I'm having a lot of fun with it...

[bradrn]

Today I learned there are fonts that style '&' in a shape that resembles its origin 'et', like this:

People typeset the ampersand in all kinds of interesting ways:



(from http://shadycharacters.co.uk/2011/06/th ... rt-2-of-2/)




(from https://99designs.com.au/blog/tips/hist ... ypography/)

[keenir]

Random: I actually got hired to work on a commission for banknote designs that this person's going to print. It's my first commission like this in a very long time, and I'm having a lot of fun with it...

thats very cool. kudos and congrats

[hwhatting]

Random: I actually got hired to work on a commission for banknote designs that this person's going to print. It's my first commission like this in a very long time, and I'm having a lot of fun with it...

Is it Christine Lagarde?
Anyway, congratulations!

[Travis B.]

Random: I actually got hired to work on a commission for banknote designs that this person's going to print. It's my first commission like this in a very long time, and I'm having a lot of fun with it...

Congratulations!

[doctor shark]

Thanks, all! Hopefully I'll be able to show results in a few weeks...

Random: I actually got hired to work on a commission for banknote designs that this person's going to print. It's my first commission like this in a very long time, and I'm having a lot of fun with it...

Is it Christine Lagarde? ;-)

I wish. :P

[Raphael]

Congratulations, doctor!

[Ryusenshi]

Cheap idea for a Halloween costume: wear a business casual attire, and claim to be the CEO of a tech company. Now that's scary.

[Ares Land]

Related: I saw pictures of Elon Musk's halloween party this morning and to be honest I'm not sure I'm going to sleep well tonight.

[rotting bones]

Munchkin Digital will be available on Steam in about 10 hours.

[Rounin Ryuuji]

In Gaming news, there's also a new Sonic thing, and Pokémon Generation IX is probably about to get spoilered all over the Internet.

[foxcatdog]

I've played games in both series. Sonic is fast and probably less fun then in remember. Pokemon is grindy and repetitive so i've never finished it (not that i finished sonic but i at least think i would be able to finish a pokemon game) but i do like the creature things the game offers (i like the eeveelutions i particular). The retro game i've probably sunk the most time into is Golden Axe 3 (i had a disc which contains a bunch of old games from Sega and that was one of the games on it).

[Rounin Ryuuji]

I never found Pokémon that grindy, but I didn't try to "catch 'em all", I just played through the games with a team I liked.

[rotting bones]

I don't know much about Pokemon, but Steam will release Dwarf Fortress on December 6. Not sure I can afford $30, honestly.

Munchkin will become available on December 1.