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Should the World adopt a new Metric Alphabet (the Decabet)?

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Is the Metric Alphabet a Good Idea?

Ягя (Yes)
15
7%
LMNO (No)
188
93%
 
Total votes : 203

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Rick Rollin
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Postby Rick Rollin » Sun May 20, 2012 3:16 pm

Geniasis wrote:
Vetalia wrote:Nah, let's push it to the limit...the Unibet. One character.


That alphabet is walking along a razor's edge.

Pfft. Lets go for the Abet.
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Postby A Republican Empire State » Sun May 20, 2012 3:18 pm

ГЯck LMNO
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Postby Rick Rollin » Sun May 20, 2012 3:19 pm

A Republican Empire State wrote:ГЯck LMNOLMNO

Corrected.
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Postby Vetalia » Sun May 20, 2012 3:19 pm

Geniasis wrote:That alphabet is walking along a razor's edge.


Wanted: someone to create a single-character alphabet with me. This is not a joke.
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Postby Geniasis » Sun May 20, 2012 3:20 pm

Rick Rollin wrote:
Geniasis wrote:
That alphabet is walking along a razor's edge.

Pfft. Lets go for the Abet.


All right, but don't look down, just keep your head and you'll be finished.
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Postby Lancearc » Sun May 20, 2012 3:20 pm

A Republican Empire State wrote:ГЯck LMNO

Hey, I've already spelt the first word, an LMNO is No. Except I said "Fuck this."

I win da gaem.
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Postby Alaje » Sun May 20, 2012 3:22 pm

It's a linguistically unsound idea. Too many letters that represent historically unrelated phonomes are merged together.
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Postby Rastynhaven » Sun May 20, 2012 3:23 pm

ЧГLMNOLMNO LMNOLMNO

Hell no
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Postby Rick Rollin » Sun May 20, 2012 3:24 pm

Ironically, ten people support this.
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Postby Strathy » Sun May 20, 2012 3:24 pm

No, no we shouldn't.
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Postby Midlothian Heart » Sun May 20, 2012 3:28 pm

LMNOLMNO, ЧЯ ЯAKГЯ LMNOЯГ ЯЧГ LMNOAЯЧLMNOLMNOЧ ЯLMNOЧLMNOЯЯГLMNOГЯЯ.
[No, It takes the nations uniqueness.]

And it also takes way too long to write and learn.

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Postby Geniasis » Sun May 20, 2012 3:29 pm

Don't you mean: ЧЯLMNOLMNOЧCALMNOLMNOЯ, ЯГLMNO ЯГLMNOЯLMNOГ...

You know, I can't even finish this. It takes way too long to type in bizzaro-speak.
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Myrensis wrote:I say turn it into a brothel, that way Muslims and Christians can be offended together.


DaWoad wrote:nah, she only fought because, as everyone knows, the brits can't make a decent purse to save their lives and she had a VERY important shopping trip coming up!


Reichskommissariat ost wrote:Women are as good as men , I dont know why they constantly whine about things.


Euronion wrote:because how dare me ever ever try to demand rights for myself, right men, we should just lie down and let the women trample over us, let them take awa our rights, our right to vote will be next just don't say I didn't warn ou

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Postby Ifreann » Sun May 20, 2012 3:29 pm

Midlothian Heart wrote:LMNOLMNO, ЧЯ ЯAKГЯ LMNOЯГ ЯЧГ LMNOAЯЧLMNOLMNOЧ ЯLMNOЧLMNOЯЯГLMNOГЯЯ.
[No, It takes the nations uniqueness.]

And it also takes way too long to write and learn.

Maybe you haven't noticed, but nation's here in the real world don't each have one unique language.

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Postby Haydenish People » Sun May 20, 2012 3:34 pm

The Decabet looks like Cyrillic had a baby with the Latin alphabet and their baby only had ten letters. It won't work. If it ain't broke, don't fix it, an our alphabet ain't broke, last time I checked.
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Postby Talonis » Sun May 20, 2012 3:40 pm

Or, we could replace ALL letters with A!
(AAA AA AAAA AAAAAAA AAA AAAAAAA AAAA AA)
Maybe... even go back to grunts!
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Postby Ruridova » Sun May 20, 2012 3:41 pm

Nationstatelandsville wrote:If anything, the English language could do with some more letters.

^This. It sounds cool but it's amazingly confusing.
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Postby Charlotte Ryberg » Sun May 20, 2012 3:41 pm

Vetalia wrote:Nah, let's push it to the limit...the Unibet. One character.

I think that would be totally unworkable, save for a certain article on Uncylopedia. I won't be able to distinguish between any word whatsoever!

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Postby Ruridova » Sun May 20, 2012 3:46 pm

Charlotte Ryberg wrote:
Vetalia wrote:Nah, let's push it to the limit...the Unibet. One character.

I think that would be totally unworkable, save for a certain article on Uncylopedia. I won't be able to distinguish between any word whatsoever!

Should we start typing in Unibet then? What will the one letter be? Going with the Uncyclopedia reference, the letter A?
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Postby Helcasia » Sun May 20, 2012 5:01 pm

Quite sure this 'aaaa' stuff is spam which will get the thread locked.

...also, why not simplify further, and also abolish upper-case? Make it a single symbol for the letter.
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Postby Caninope » Sun May 20, 2012 5:09 pm

Helcasia wrote:Quite sure this 'aaaa' stuff is spam which will get the thread locked.

...also, why not simplify further, and also abolish upper-case? Make it a single symbol for the letter.

Now come on. That would just be silly.
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Postby Ruridova » Sun May 20, 2012 5:10 pm

Helcasia wrote:Quite sure this 'aaaa' stuff is spam which will get the thread locked.

...also, why not simplify further, and also abolish upper-case? Make it a single symbol for the letter.

Even better! And why not get rid of punctuation too? Simplify it even more? If you haven't realized this is sarcasm, I will slap you.
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Postby Sithaar » Mon May 21, 2012 4:48 am

Ifreann wrote:
Sithaar wrote:I propose making Estonian the lingua franca.

Why?


Because why not.
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Postby Ifreann » Mon May 21, 2012 4:54 am

Sithaar wrote:
Ifreann wrote:Why?


Because why not.

It would take considerable effort and would provide no real benefit.

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Postby Sithaar » Mon May 21, 2012 4:56 am

Ifreann wrote:
Sithaar wrote:
Because why not.

It would take considerable effort and would provide no real benefit.


But it was a joke.
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Postby Ifreann » Mon May 21, 2012 5:05 am

Sithaar wrote:
Ifreann wrote:It would take considerable effort and would provide no real benefit.


But it was a joke.

In that case, I think I ruined your joke :)

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