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Given that malt vinegar is the usual chippy condiment, I'd expect it to be that. Or the cheapest possible "non-brewed condiment".
Around here malt vinegar is certainly not what people expect when you say 'vinegar'.
Nice! Really interesting facts, it was addictive to read :) I wonder how you stored this information, did you already prepare a draft? Do you use a "Google Docs"? Or do you have a more fancy way to store these ideas? I find it interesting
That's a very good question: newsletters are rendered from markdown files; each of them is a combination of an intro, a book section, and two sections with articles and facts.
Both facts and articles are stored in a local CSV with my brief comments, and then I manually pick and expand on the ones suitable for the edition.
I mostly use Pocket + IFTTT for storing, and a naive Bash script to automate everything routine related to it (e.g formatting sources).
So... who else has now burned hours on the incompatible food triad? Seriously, it's killing me. Some kind of fruit and chocolate and something??
Some extra interesting stuff: [Pie Barm] One of the things I miss most about living in the UK is its breakfast sandwiches from manchester. Usually some mix of sausage, egg, bacon, beans on a big white barm/bap. Can't seem to get anywhere near as good sandwiches here in Canada. [1] [Erstwhile] There word ere is still used almost the same as its Aer root word [2] [Ogden's Basic English] XKCD had a play on this [3] usin…
I can't believe I have missed the boh! reference in the most recent Spider Man movie.
Re: ere, I learnt it the hard way with the word "ereyesterday" (and on that note, the word "overmorrow" is nice too) .
Nice! Really interesting facts, it was addictive to read :) I wonder how you stored this information, did you already prepare a draft? Do you use a "Google Docs"? Or do you have a more fancy way to store these ideas? I find it interesting
Thank you! It's only a fifth of the facts I've shared over the last six months, so feel free to nurture the addiction further :) That's a very good question: newsletters are rendered from markdown files; each of them is a combination of an intro, a book section, and two sections with articles and facts. Both facts and articles are stored in a local CSV with my brief comments, and then I manually pick and expand on th…
About artificially created language I really like Toki Pona - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_Pona Very minimalist, nice sounds.
I was quite confused by the examples for Solresol > Will you go to the countryside this year? - Fadoremi? > Will you go to the theatre tonight? - Soldoremi? I was very intrigued at how much meaning could be packed into such a short word, given only seven phonemes. Finally I found a dictionary and found that those words just mean "countryside" and "theater" respectively.
These sentences were examples from the language creator's original book [1], and his initial idea was to use nouns as a way to ask a question, and then add a personal pronoun for an affirmative statement:
> Will you go to the theatre tonight? - Soldoremi? > I will go to the theatre tonight. - Soldoremi dore.
As far as I know, later it was changed by the followers and the Solresol grammar [2] tries to move away from this approach, e.g
> Dore fasifa ladofa fami ladosol (I want to read this book [3])
instead of
> Ladosol dore.
[1]: http://www.ifost.org.au/~gregb/solresol/sudre-book.pdf [2]: http://mozai.com/writing/not_mine/solresol/ [3]: https://solresol.blogspot.com/2012/07/learning-solresol-less...
Some extra interesting stuff: [Pie Barm] One of the things I miss most about living in the UK is its breakfast sandwiches from manchester. Usually some mix of sausage, egg, bacon, beans on a big white barm/bap. Can't seem to get anywhere near as good sandwiches here in Canada. [1] [Erstwhile] There word ere is still used almost the same as its Aer root word [2] [Ogden's Basic English] XKCD had a play on this [3] usin…
Bacon and sausage are quite different outside the UK too as I found out in Australia and North America. Still you can't meet a decent American/Canadian breakfast with a stack of pancakes, a bit less portable though!
Re "broon sauce" i.e. brown sauce: > The recipe is a mystery, and every chippy mixes their own. However now I know the secret: Just dilute down some yourself. Add vinegar to brown sauce I had the same self-referential discussion with a chippie in Scotland. "So what exactly is in brown sauce?" "Dunno mate, it's just got brown sauce in it." - Re Roman numerals as multipliers: I think this must be a recent invention (th…
The leveled up version is trying to figure out what exactly the local kebab shop is doing to their salad. It's sitting there in some clear liquid, but what is that liquid?! Vinegar for sure, lemon juice probably, but what else?!
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Bacon and sausage are quite different outside the UK too as I found out in Australia and North America. Still you can't meet a decent American/Canadian breakfast with a stack of pancakes, a bit less portable though!
Let me also introduce you to one of Scotland's finest...the Square Sausage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorne_sausage