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<egg|cell|egg>
Happy birthday Newton
<egg|cell|egg>
(assuming that one both defines and observes it in the calendar locally in use at the time)
<raptop>
\o/
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<egg|laptop|egg>
help I tricked myself into making a neo-Assyrian cuneiform font
<raptop>
I don't know enough about neo_Assyrian cuneiform to offer advice and/or pull requests
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<WeylandsWings>
egg|laptop|egg: just dont summon any old ones
<WeylandsWings>
like it would be a great season finale to 2020, but might bleed over into 2021
<egg|laptop|egg>
WeylandsWings: well I came up with a nice obscure way to write Cthulhu in sumero-akkadian cuneiform
<egg|laptop|egg>
qat-šu-ul₇-u₂ 𒋗𒋗𒋗𒁍𒌑
<egg|laptop|egg>
note that the signs for [kʼat] and [ʃu], as well as the first half of the sign for [ul], are identical
<egg|laptop|egg>
(though for summoning old ones I would recommend a classical sumerian or old babylonian fonts, something as modern as neo-assyrian seems inappropriate; you want the oldest signs you can muster)
<egg|laptop|egg>
(conveniently noto sans cuneiform (or segoe UI historic which wraps it), which is by far the most common cuneiform font out there, is exactly that)
<WeylandsWings>
why is that convient? we need to not summon them
<raptop>
Ina! Ina! Ina!
* raptop
>_>
<egg|laptop|egg>
raptop: ina 𒄿𒈾 is an akkadian preposition, but also there literally is an ia sign 𒅀
<raptop>
hah!
<egg|laptop|egg>
!u ʼ
<galois>
ʼ: U+02bc MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE
<egg|laptop|egg>
WeylandsWings: raptop: also with Zethar’s help we came up with a nice way of writing fhtagn with an obscure reading and two successive signs that look a bit alike in old style fonts: paḫ-šaggin 𒈜𒄊𒀴
<raptop>
hah!
<raptop>
Hrm, irssi overlaps the glyphs in a way that andchat does not