i wonder what the inverse of the letters in the english alphabet are. since it has a non-prime number of letters (26 to be exact), we know that some letters won’t have inverses. i wonder which letters don’t have inverses. i guess it would be pretty easy to find out if you use the standard alphabet ordering and then port the alphabet over to ℤ/26ℤ, but that’s not a particularly satisfying answer.
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superkret@feddit.org · 53 pts · 1y
If you want a clear definition, ask a mathematician:
Or a computer scientist:
folekaule@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 1y
Meanwhile, in Unicode land...
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org · 10 pts · 1y
Maybe ironically, neither one would be appropriate as a linguistic definition.
affiliate@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
i wonder what the inverse of the letters in the english alphabet are. since it has a non-prime number of letters (26 to be exact), we know that some letters won’t have inverses. i wonder which letters don’t have inverses. i guess it would be pretty easy to find out if you use the standard alphabet ordering and then port the alphabet over to ℤ/26ℤ, but that’s not a particularly satisfying answer.
four@lemmy.zip · 34 pts · 1y
"word" is a four letter word
lugal@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 1y
Please, it's w*rd, we want to keep this f*mily friendly
tdawg@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
jst blck ll vwls t b* sf
lugal@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
Watch your l*nguage, my dear
dessimbelackis@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
I think you’ll find that in actual fact “bird” is the word
prex@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 1y
That's what I heard.
spicytuna62@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Entropywins@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
And it begins...probably be 2 days until I get the song out of my head
orb360@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
My body is ready!
angrystego@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Birds are not real, though, are they?
pseudo@jlai.lu · 0 pts · 1y
The definition still applies.
nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl · 6 pts · 1y
Word!
railwhale@lemmy.nz · 4 pts · 1y
Recursive
acronymsdefinitionsfunkless_eck@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
that's a bit wordy
archonet@lemy.lol · 15 pts · 1y
if you accept the definition that a word is some letters, surrounded by a gap...
slice@feddit.org · 8 pts · 1y
From which Tom Scott video is this ?
archonet@lemy.lol · 7 pts · 1y
this one
slice@feddit.org · 1 pts · 1y
Thanks
carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 1y
xnopyt
lugal@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 1y
Still even people new to writing have a good intuition about that but formalizing this intuition is a different story
deaf_fish@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 1y
And I love them for it. Seriously comfortable society is built on and by nerds.
slice@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y
Yeah I love it too. It was quite an interesting deep dive into that topic.
chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 1y
Saussure feelings
wandermind@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 1y
As a linguist, I'd just shrug.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 1y
"everyone knows what a word is, that is the definion"
shneancy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
the cries of alien archaeologists from the far future echo in the distance
Mango@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
What IS a word?
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 1y
vsauce music starts playing
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 1y
"what" is a word, correct.
Hupf@feddit.org · 1 pts · 1y
What is Truth and what is God?