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Arguments concerning amendments to the Hexlish alphabet

by Abbey Schnabel

https://zenodo.org/records/24021289

"Increasing readability and usability over sentence borders by
introduction of special character transliterations"

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Hexlish Alphabet for English, Constructed Languages and Cryptography: Automatic, Structural Compression with a Phonetic Hexadecimal Alphabet

DOI : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13139469

Hexlish is a legible, sixteen-letter alphabet for writing the English language and for encoding text as legible base 16 or compressed binary. Texts composed using the alphabet are automatically compressed by exactly fifty percent when converted from Hexlish characters into binary characters. Although technically lossy, this syntactic compression enables recovery of the correct English letters via syntactic reconstruction. The implementer can predict the size of the compressed binary file and the size of the text that will result from decompression. Generally it is intuitive to recognize English alphabet analogues to Hexlish words. This makes Hexlish a legible alternative to the standard hexadecimal alphabet.

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#Hexlish #Conlang #Alphabets #English #Hexadecimal #Encoding #Cryptography #Ciphers #Crypto #Encryption #Compression #Papers #Preprints #Orthography #Language #Linguistics #Writing #Glyphs #Alphabetology #Technology

Il Fatto Quotidiano: “Non ci potevamo permettere una casa nel Regno Unito, così abbiamo comprato 7 cottage e 2 fienili, per 31mila euro, risparmiandone 120mila con la ristrutturazione fatta da noi”: la storia di Yep e Paul

Sono bastate 31mila euro a una coppia inglese che nel proprio paese era costretta a vivere in una roulotte per acquistare un borgo francese abbandonato che ora sono riusciti a trasformare nella proprietà dei loro sogni. Ora, sei anni dopo l’acquisto, la coppia, grazie al lavoro portato avanti come fai-da-te, possiede sette cottage, due fienili e diversi altri edifici.
A offrire alla coppia inglese, formata da Yip Ward e Paul Mappley, l’opportunità di acquistare questa proprietà in Normandia è stato un loro amico. Era il 2020 e Ward e Mappley vivevano in quel momento in roulotte a Royal Tunbridge Wells, nella contea del Kent, in Inghilterra.
L’acquisto iniziale che sostenne la coppia fu di 14mila euro, seguito poi da una successivo acquisto del valore di 19mila euro per ottenere gli edifici adiacenti alla proprietà già acquistata. Al momento la coppia è riuscita a traformare il cottage originario in una casa vacanze e per la fine dell’estate 2027 è previsto che terminino anche i lavori di un secondo cottage.
“La gente ci chiede sempre come abbiamo trovato il villaggio, ma non è che lo stessimo cercando, è stato un incontro casuale con un amico che aveva trovato un posto e lo stava vendendo. Lo consideriamo senza dubbio un allineamento planetario. Siamo andati alla ricerca di un relitto abbandonato 30 anni fa e lo abbiamo ricomposto pezzo per pezzo, ristrutturando personalmente con un risparmio di 120mila euro”, ha spiegato la coppia.
Le condizioni in cui si trovava la proprietà al momento dell’acquisto erano particolarmente critiche. “Non posso spiegarvi a parole quanto fosse doloroso che, a parte i cottage uno e due, gli altri tre erano completamente ricoperti di edera, con il tetto interamente invaso dall’edera” ha raccontato Paul Mappley.
L'articolo “Non ci potevamo permettere una casa nel Regno Unito, così abbiamo comprato 7 cottage e 2 fienili, per 31mila euro, risparmiandone 120mila con la ristrutturazione fatta da noi”: la storia di Yep e Paul proviene da Il Fatto Quotidiano.

“We couldn’t afford a house in the UK, so we bought 7 cottages and 2 barns for €31,000, saving €120,000 with the renovation we did ourselves”: the story of Yep and Paul.

It took just €31,000 for an English couple to buy a deserted French village that they have now managed to transform into their dream property. Now, six years after the purchase, the couple, thanks to DIY work, owns seven cottages, two barns and several other buildings.

A friend offered the English couple, consisting of Yip Ward and Paul Mappley, the opportunity to buy this property in Normandy. It was 2020 and at that time Ward and Mappley were living in a caravan in Royal Tunbridge Wells, in Kent, England.

The initial purchase that supported the couple was of €14,000, followed by a subsequent purchase worth €19,000 to obtain the buildings adjacent to the already purchased property. At present the couple has managed to transform the original cottage into a holiday home and work on a second cottage is scheduled to be completed by the end of summer 2027.

“People always ask us how we found the village, but it wasn't that we were looking for it, it was a chance meeting with a friend who had found a place and was selling it. We undoubtedly consider it a planetary alignment,” explained the couple.

The conditions in which the property was when it was bought were particularly critical. “I can’t tell you how painful it was that, apart from cottages one and two, the other three were completely covered in ivy, with the roof entirely invaded by ivy” said Paul Mappley.

The article "We couldn't afford a house in the UK, so we bought 7 cottages and 2 barns for €31,000, saving €120,000 with our own renovations”: the story of Yep and Paul comes from Il Fatto Quotidiano.

#English #French #YipWard #PaulMappley #Mappley #RoyalTunbridgeWells #England #second #IlFattoQuotidiano

https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2026/11/06/non-potevamo-permetterci-una-casa-nel-regno-unito-cosi-abbiamo-comprato-sette-cottage-e-due-fienili-per-31mila-euro-la-storia-di-yep-e-paul/8561974/

I want to settle an age old debate I've been having …
Please vote, I'm curious! Boosts welcome.

#language #linguistics #English #poll #askFedi

What is the main meaning you associate with the word 'funny'? Like, if I called someone or something 'funny' without and further context, what would you assume?

Is there a word in #English for that sweet but short interval after an election before the infighting and backstabbing begins 🤔

Next week, I'll be presenting on the #humanrights situation in #WestPapua for Amnesty International Japan, in #Japanese and #English. Details below, and please share!

West Papua: Asia's Forgotten Occupation／西パプア：アジアの忘れられた占領（日本語通訳付き)

https://www.amnesty.or.jp/get-involved/event/2026/1112_11147.html

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My typing pretty much went down the same way as writing but I think I type left handed side of letters quicker than right sides ones 🤔 , mixing up words like insect/incest (for which my school teachers called my parents a number of times) then there is matter of spellings (color/colour) as here in #Pakistan 🇵🇰 most of the kids in the #90s grew up with strict usage of 🇬🇧 #English instead of #American

It's some kinda of dystextia, entering into #cyberpace (at least for me)

Random #English verb form reminder:

lay / laid / laid
lie / lay / lain
lie / lied / lied

Hexlish Alphabet for English, Constructed Languages and Cryptography: Automatic, Structural Compression with a Phonetic Hexadecimal Alphabet

DOI : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13139469

Hexlish is a legible, sixteen-letter alphabet for writing the English language and for encoding text as legible base 16 or compressed binary. Texts composed using the alphabet are automatically compressed by exactly fifty percent when converted from Hexlish characters into binary characters. Although technically lossy, this syntactic compression enables recovery of the correct English letters via syntactic reconstruction. The implementer can predict the size of the compressed binary file and the size of the text that will result from decompression. Generally it is intuitive to recognize English alphabet analogues to Hexlish words. This makes Hexlish a legible alternative to the standard hexadecimal alphabet.

#Hexlish #Conlang #Alphabets #English #Hexadecimal #Encoding #Cryptography #Ciphers #Crypto #Encryption #Compression #Papers #Preprints #Orthography #Language #Linguistics #Writing #Glyphs #Alphabetology #Technology

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Hexlish Alphabet logo. The word HEXLISH in rainbow colors on a black background with a hexagonal dot above the letter I. Beneat the logo in yellow reads the phrase, "English Text Compression & Encoding."