this is not memorable.. It could use another pass to handle repeatings words like K8s, or .. some set rhythm patters that help you chunk and remember the overall count .. Baba-BAba-baba, Baba-BAba-baba or something ..
They didn't mention Mnemonic major system in the prior, art.. But I guess not everyone is interested in pegging.. of numbers,
This is cool! The inclusion of z kind of breaks this for my fellow Scandinavians though. Many of us don't really hear the difference between z and s, and even if we do we can't pronounce it properly.
The P/B distinction will be difficult for many people as well.
I believe this is one of the reasons that Toki Pona only has nine consonants (/p, t, k, s, m, n, l, j, w/) and five vowels (/a, e, i, o, u/).
Somme kind of error correcting would be nice too, perhaps?
It reminds me of man tan tethera [0], leading to such glorious encodings as 'Yan-a-bub' (eleven, County Durham), 'Tetherabum' (eighteen, Swaledale and Tong in Yorkshire) and 'Fotherydik' (fourteen, West Country Dorset.) Each variant only seems to go up to twenty, but that's enough for hex...
As a non-native English-speaker, I would say that the `v`/`w` pronunciation distinction would be a major challenge: Asking someone to pronounce "Darth Vader" is a pretty good check, at least in the Nordics.
Raising my kid in three languages (english, french and spanish) and over four countries now, spelling words letter by letter was bound to be a never-ending problem (like french 'i' 's pronouciation is basically english 'e' etc.) so I decided, very early on, to teach both my wife and my kid the NATO alphabet.
It is really very convenient. As soon as there's any doubt, we switch to NATO alphabet.
The other day my daughter and I were confirming a code and I read a "fiver" and she told me: "wait, you skipped 'sierra'". Turns out I miswrote down a '5' into a 's' but during verification, we caught it. Which is precisely why we use that kind of stuff. Now we've got our own "code" to differentiate letters from digits too (for when we write codes down): every digit we place a little dot underneath it and every uppercase we underline it.
Besides that, there's also always the memorizing method from the I.T. Crowd:
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 12.0 ms ] threadthis is not memorable.. It could use another pass to handle repeatings words like K8s, or .. some set rhythm patters that help you chunk and remember the overall count .. Baba-BAba-baba, Baba-BAba-baba or something ..
They didn't mention Mnemonic major system in the prior, art.. But I guess not everyone is interested in pegging.. of numbers,
The P/B distinction will be difficult for many people as well.
I believe this is one of the reasons that Toki Pona only has nine consonants (/p, t, k, s, m, n, l, j, w/) and five vowels (/a, e, i, o, u/).
Somme kind of error correcting would be nice too, perhaps?
It reminds me of man tan tethera [0], leading to such glorious encodings as 'Yan-a-bub' (eleven, County Durham), 'Tetherabum' (eighteen, Swaledale and Tong in Yorkshire) and 'Fotherydik' (fourteen, West Country Dorset.) Each variant only seems to go up to twenty, but that's enough for hex...
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_tan_tethera
P/V/F confusion is also a thing, in Indonesia.
V and F tend to be pronounced as P.
As a non-native English-speaker, I would say that the `v`/`w` pronunciation distinction would be a major challenge: Asking someone to pronounce "Darth Vader" is a pretty good check, at least in the Nordics.
Raising my kid in three languages (english, french and spanish) and over four countries now, spelling words letter by letter was bound to be a never-ending problem (like french 'i' 's pronouciation is basically english 'e' etc.) so I decided, very early on, to teach both my wife and my kid the NATO alphabet.
It is really very convenient. As soon as there's any doubt, we switch to NATO alphabet.
The other day my daughter and I were confirming a code and I read a "fiver" and she told me: "wait, you skipped 'sierra'". Turns out I miswrote down a '5' into a 's' but during verification, we caught it. Which is precisely why we use that kind of stuff. Now we've got our own "code" to differentiate letters from digits too (for when we write codes down): every digit we place a little dot underneath it and every uppercase we underline it.
Besides that, there's also always the memorizing method from the I.T. Crowd:
https://youtu.be/HWc3WY3fuZU