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New Communities

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A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.

Rules

The rules for behavior are a straight carry over of Mastodon.World's rules. You can click the link but we've reposted them here in brief, as a guideline. We will continue to use the Mastodon.World rules as the master list. Over all, be nice to each other and remember this isn't a community built around debate. For the rules about formatting your posts, scroll down to number 2.

1. Follow the rules of Mastodon.world, which can be found here.

A. Provide an inclusive and supportive environment. This means if it isn't rulebreaking and we can't be supportive to them then we probably shouldn't engage.

B. No illegal content.

C. Use content warnings where appropriate. This means mark your submissions NSFW if need be.

D. No uncivil behavior. This includes, but is not limited to: Name Calling; Bullying; Trolling; Disruptive Commenting; or Personal Criticisms.

E. No Harrassment. As an example in relation to Transgender people this includes, deadnaming, misgendering, and promotion of conversion therapy. Similarly Misogyny, Misandry, and Racism are also banned here.

2. Include a community or instance title and description in your post title. - A following example of this would be New Communities - A place to post new communities or instances all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.

3. Follow the formatting. - The formatting as included below is important for people getting universal links across Lemmy as easily as possible.

Formatting

Please include this following format in your post:

[link text](/c/community@instance.com)

This provides a link that should work across instances, but in some cases it won't

You should also include either:

!community@instance.com

or instance.com/c/community

FAQ:

Q: Why do I get a 404?

A: At least one user in an instance needs to search for a community before it gets fetched. Searching for the community will bring it into the instance and it will fetch a few of the most recent posts without comments. If a user is subscribed to a community, then all of the future posts and interactions are now in-sync.

Q: When I try to create a post, the circle just spins forever. Why is that?

A: This is a current known issue with large communities. Sometimes it does get posted, but just continues spinning, but sometimes it doesn't get posted and continues spinning. If it doesn't actually get posted, the best thing to do is try later. However, only some people seem to be having this problem at the moment.

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This is the Shavian community: a community to practice reading and writing with the Shavian alphabet.

The Shavian alphabet is a phonetic alphabet for the English language: in Shavian, you write a word the way you pronounce it. For more information you can check out the alphabet chart on the wiki page here.

The Shavian alphabet was proposed by the 20th century playwright George Bernard Shaw, and created after his death. Shaw was passionate about phonetic writing, and wrote some of his literary works in shorthand.
So how about you, why might you want to learn the Shavian alphabet? Maybe you're...

  • a writer too, and want to experiment with writing phonetically
  • a non-native English speaker and you want to read English as it's pronounced
  • generally interested in linguistics, and want to play with a new toy
  • interested in learning a language, but don't have the time or inclination. Settle for learning an alphabet instead!

Just want to practice reading? Subscribe and get a few morsels of Shavian script in your feed every day.
If you want to write, come and give it a go! For text input, you have a few options. If you're a Linux user and like to keep it simple, here's a Shavian XKB layout you can edit as you wish. Otherwise, shavian.info has some keyboard resources.

𐑔𐑨𐑯𐑒𐑕 𐑓 𐑒𐑳π‘₯𐑦𐑙 𐑑 π‘₯𐑲 TED 𐑑𐑷𐑒!

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[–] _Nico198X_@europe.pub 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

i wanted to revisit this after spending more time with Shavian and Quikscript.

while i was initially more favorable to Quikscript as the "latest improved revision," i've actually come to prefer Shavian overall in the end. this is due to the following:

  • I find an elegance to the way the Shavian alphabet uses mirroring for similar sounds. At first I was concerned it would be confusing, but with more practice I find it helpful because it narrows down the sound range I should be thinking of. Much of this is lost in Quikscript due to prioritizing different goals for handwriting flow.

  • Quikscript indeed is primarily about handwriting flow. This is not an issue in an age of computers, and even when writing i'm perfectly happy with Shavian "print" as opposed to a cursive Quikscript.

  • Quikscript has many more unique characters and alt-characters to facilitate cursive flow. That means many more unique symbols and rules to memorize.

The biggest items I appreciate about Quikscript are:

  • Solidifying 𐑦 with a single sound, /Ιͺ/, which is a rule i now apply to Shavian
  • Having distinct symbols for [ks] and [gz]. I'd like to import those into Shavian or create two new compound symbols, but it's not a deal breaker by any stretch.

At the end, it's the elegant simplicity of Shavian that i've come to value the most.

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