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my favourite thing that I learned about the voyager spacecraft today is that two days before Ann Druyan had her brain waves and heartbeat recorded to send into the universe Carl Sagan and her had confessed their love for each other and gotten engaged and so all of those feelings of being in love are out there recorded on voyager right now
“On June 1, 1977, Carl and I shared a wonderfully important phone call,” she recalls. Without the aid of a date or even a romantic moment alone, the two had fallen in love during the mad rush to complete the Golden Record. “We decided to get married. It was a Eureka! moment for both of us—the idea that we could find the perfect match. It was a discovery that has been reaffirmed in countless ways since.”
Echoes of that moment reverberated through her mind during the recording session. Her conscious mind may have been reciting culture and philosophy, but her subconscious was buzzing with the euphoria of the Great Idea of True Love. The hour was electronically compressed to a single minute that sounds, appropriately, like a string of exploding firecrackers.
“My feelings as a 27 year old woman, madly fallen in love, they’re on that record,” says Druyan. “It’s forever. It’ll be true 100 million years from now. For me Voyager is a kind of joy so powerful, it robs you of your fear of death.” (link)
The standard Spanish rules force the spelling of that word to be “salle”, but the pronunciation of the middle consonant to be [l]; meanwhile, though, the standard pronunciation rules would force one to pronounce “salle” with a [ʝ] (this is called “yeísmo”).
Thus, two existing prescriptions for the Spanish language, as laid out by the Royal Spanish Academy, conflict in the case of this word, and the Academy’s official guidance (as of their update on spelling from 2010) is that this word may be spoken, but must not be written, as there is no correct way to spell it. Some Spanish users have been known to spell it “sal-le”, anyway.
Really makes you appreciate speaking and writing in what I think is the world’s only major language with no regulatory body whatsoever.
oh, hey, this is true.
La interpretación forzosa como dígrafo de la secuencia gráfica ll en español hace imposible representar por escrito la palabra resultante de añadir el pronombre átono le a la forma verbal sal (imperativo no voseante de segunda persona de singular del verbo salir), oralmente posible si, por ejemplo, ordenáramos a alguien salir al paso o al encuentro de otra persona aludida con el pronombre le: [sál·le al páso], [sálle al enkuéntro]. Puesto que los pronombres átonos pospuestos al verbo han de escribirse soldados a este, sal + le daría por escrito salle, cuya lectura sería forzosamente [sá.lle, sá.ye], y no [sál·le]
from Ortografía de la Lengua Española, 2010 edition.
fortunately there is a simple solution: universal adoption of voseo, where this is not a problem because the second person informal imperative is instead salí, and therefore adding -le results in the perfectly normal salile
(side note, while it is true that pronouncing ll as [ʝ] is called yeísmo, the actual problem here is that ll is a digraph with its own pronunciation separate from that of two consecutive Ls, which is a feature of all dialects of spanish whether they have yeísmo or not)
Wow, Royal Spanish Academy, you really live like that?
sal'le
cf. transliterating 純一郎 (じゅんいちろう) as jun'ichirō to distinguish it from a hypothetical じゅにちろう.
this is RAE we’re talking about, as soon as anyone makes the suggestion they have a speech ready to go about how the proper use of an apostrophe is to mark the elision of a sound, you ignorant piece of shit, you absolute scum, how fucking dare you speak to me, etc.
you see a tiny sign planted in the ground. bending down to read, you just make out, in impossibly tiny script “a mundane clump of dirt; much beloved by god, like any other”
i adore when people have diy blorbos. like they made an oc and went “oh this little freak Rules” and they just dont shut up about them. i think its fantastic i love it so much
aight its time to clock out for a bit. im tired, this has me tired. im gonna draw some dragons getting their heads stuck in things. someone give me some ideas
what about THREE donuts
i really liked that third one
featuring Fowler and his slightly disappointed father
idiot
hey guys heres some more dragons with their heads stuck in things
“hyperpop would kill a victorian child” “mountain dew would kill a medieval peasant” well i think cavemen would absolutely love mukbang videos. couldnt we use more joy in the world. coulent we use more kindness in the world
im sorry i just found out that all steel made post-ww2 has like subtly higher levels of radioactivity….. bc the nuclear bombs increased the background radiation in the air slightly all across the world and so atmospheric air used in the production of steel contaminates it….. and it’s completely negligible in everyday life and not at all dangerous (really, truly do not worry about it) but apparently it also means that whenever we need Special No Radiation Steel (like for scientific/medical equipment, ex. geiger counters or xray machines) we have to use scavenged steel made before ww2. and apparently shipwrecks are a great source of such steel. so a lot of such equipment is made from recycled shipwreck metal. what the fuck. what the fuck
for anyone who like me was worried we will one day run out of shipwreck steel: thankfully the background radiation levels in the atmosphere have been dropping ever since nuclear testing was moved underground, so this will become less and less of an issue with time. and now for another radioactive metal from shipwrecks fan fact:
apparently lead is really good for radiation shielding, which is why it’s important to many physics experiments, especially those concerned with studying dark matter and rare particles. unfortunately, lead is also inherently A Little Bit Radioactive (unrelated to nuclear bombs, it’s just a feature of the metal), but the radioactive element decays over time, so the older the lead, the less radioactive, and hence better for Physics Stuff. which is why ancient Roman lead is Ideal for this. so a lot of ancient bars of lead from Roman shipwrecks - tons of cargo that would’ve ended up as weapons or coins and stuff, if it didn’t sink to the bottom of the sea - are sold to physicists. it’s like a whole
“preservation of cultural heritage vs revolutionary scientific research” thing. like a whole fucking feud btwn the archaeologists and physicists
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