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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

Rules

  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS

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[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Nah, "aaaaa", "bbbbb", and "zzzzz" doesn't need to be one of the "multiple choices"

Don't spell each letter of each word, just use words to "spell out" the sentence instead.

[–] Ediacarium@feddit.org 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If you're not asking about anything that we currently don't have a word for, we can use words as the alphabet, sure.

We then need to transmit a list of words, they're allowed to use, otherwise our count is off, because I'm sure that 974 years from now english won't be the same, as it is today. They'll have a lot more skibid rizz than we do now.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

use Chinese xD

logographic languages tend to last longer, especially now all the characters are digitized.

A "Computer" didn't exist in ancient times, but they still used words that have always existed to create new compound words: 电脑 ("Electric" + "Brain"). Airplanes didn't exist but they still came up with the word 飞机 ("Flying" + "Machine")