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Vetted?
To prevent it ever being spammy, which is my first concern with any anonymous group of people. Just a place where you know everyone is a hacker (in the coding sense) and you know who they are in real-life. Vetting is the opposite of Twitter/Reddit et al.
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In Japan a ー is used to extend a sound. Characters like ne or yo are used to casually finish sentences and it gives them a hightened sense of friendliness to extend them with 〜 instead of ー. It also can be used to make effeminate or suggestive sounds like あーん would be ahhn like sticking out your tongue to check your throat but あ〜ん is ahnn but in a seductive/sexy way
Please correct me if I’m wrong (still learning Japanese), but isn’t「ー」only used to extend sounds written in katakana? In the case of the「あーん」that you wrote, I would think that it would be written as「ああん」instead since that’s the way sounds are extended in hiragana. I agree with your usage of「あ〜ん」though.
You could think of it this way: if you wanted to convey that you were saying the word "god" but stretching it out, the Japanese solution would be to write it as "go–d" (since "good" would have it be confused with a different word).
(This isn't the only way to convey that a long vowel in hiragana isn't semantic, though. It's also common to write the vowel in small font, such as 「あぁぁ」 or 「ねぇ」)
You can also write things that are usually written in katakana in hiragana instead. This makes it look softer, and is similar to the idea of writing English without capitalizing words (such as at the beginning of sentences). In these cases, you'd still use ー as if you were using katakana, such as in the song title 「とらぶるめーかー」 ("Troublemaker", the opening theme song from the anime Himegoto).
I'm going to use this opportunity to shamelessly plug my tildeclub page: http://tilde.club/~rich edit: Please also go to my girlfriend's page! She's jealous of my hit counter: http://tilde.club/~arch
Your page, however, reminded me of the dreadful Lycos pages I used to see in the late 90s. I don't miss them, but it was true nostalgia - thanks!
Ahh, now I remember why these kinds of websites died out. It's exciting a lot like Minecraft, in that we can make our own little worlds. We exercised both sides of the brain by learning how to write HTML and maybe some Perl, all while writing actual content. But just like Minecraft, that world is isolated and lonely. Nobody visited our sites, that's why we stopped updating them. They were inherently isolated from the…
And much less interesting than Minecraft.
I got into web design around when it first became a thing. Browsers allowed images, tables permitted layout, etc. I can remember when you'd be working for a client who had a tilde account (ISPname.com/~client), but then get particularly enthused when working on a job that had its own domain! Those looked so much better in a portfolio! All pretty tragic to consider now when it's so cheap and fast to set up any old dom…
Massively off-topic – but in American English is "a couple drinks" correct? British English would be "a couple of drinks". Just curious – I notice this a lot of US tech blogs.
To me in the UK, I would shove an "of" in there. "A couple of drinks".
Perhaps those across the pond miss this important "of" word out.
/me also misses IRC from the times where you could type -- all lines aligned (to the left, however unbelievable that sounds) regardless of the length of the users name. Today I have to pay attention not to write (b) or (c) because it might turn into a beer or coffee. We often forget to appreciate the simplicity of things.
That behaviour sounds great, although I’m curious which old IRC clients you are referring to. I actually make use of an old Power Mac G3 (B&W) running Mac OS 9 for connecting to some IRC servers (using ircle) and in its case, at least, nicks are assumed to be 10 characters or less. This is quite annoying since there are active users on the channels who have nicks longer than that, so the client simply displays their…