A quick re-#introduction, since there are lots of new folks in the shop.
A few of the topics that are easy to get me talking at length about include:
#orthography (especially fun corner cases, like dotless "ı" or multiocular "ꙮ", as well as #Unicode, character encodings, and #emoji).
#pilgrimage (especially the Camino de Santiago).
#languages (although I speak very few).
#systems and #rules of many sorts (secular and religious, human and computer).
Often, others' infectious #enthusiasms.
@eskay8 One of today's lucky 10,000! https://xkcd.com/1053/
As @dotfuli pointed out to me, using the monocular ꙩ in "ꙩкꙩ" is awfully similar to putting dots in the "eyes" of "look" to get "lꙩꙩk", which I certainly did as a kid. In that sense I guess "ꙮ" isn't such a stretch. But multiꙮcular "ꙮ", which might have only been used once, is now and forever in Unicode. It gets a whole new life!
Extra wonderful: unlike the Unicode reference, the original ꙮ had TEN red-rimmed eyes:
@dotless_i that is amazing
@dotless_i I'm always tempted to zoom in on multiocular o, and then it triggers my trypophobia
@dotless_i oh wow, TIL about ꙮ. That is super cool.
I miss the days when you could just make up letters and spelling, because you had a pen and no one was going to tell you not to.
(Of course, those were also the days where the only thing worth writing was scripture)