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« Reply #105 on: Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 19:46:19 » |
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21 characters
Including "-"?! Respect - What's the shortest then?
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« Reply #106 on: Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 19:53:08 » |
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Yes, why should the hyphen be excluded?
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« Reply #107 on: Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 20:24:05 » |
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Um, because it's not a letter, it's punctuation.
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« Reply #108 on: Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 20:31:01 » |
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But it does add to the length of the name. Even if you only count it as 1/5th of a letter.
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« Reply #109 on: Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 20:33:35 » |
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Except you don't count it as any fraction of a letter. If you really want to argue it makes the name longer, then it's by about 2mm, depending on font-size.
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« Reply #110 on: Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 20:43:06 » |
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Using a fixed width font it's the same width at any of the letters. It should at least count for something.
2mm on standard size forum post fonts is probably more than a fifth, closer to a third or a half on most letters, even longer than some.
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« Reply #111 on: Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 20:44:06 » |
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Who said anything about letters? We're talking about length. Maybe we should do number of syllables.
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« Reply #112 on: Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 20:45:16 » |
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Who said anything about letters? We're talking about length. Maybe we should do number of syllables.
Some syllables are longer than others too, might have to do some wikipedia research on different types.
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« Reply #113 on: Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 20:52:04 » |
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You're right, look:
Herbert Henry Saxon Bertie Cordey Lyon
very short
Simon Cox
very long.
You're geniuses. I'm so hidebound by traditional counting methods. I bow to your lateral thinking skills.
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« Reply #114 on: Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 20:54:38 » |
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If you can't take the comparison of the lengths of football player's names seriously then maybe you shouldn't take part in the discussion?
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« Reply #115 on: Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 21:15:27 » |
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I'll leave you clever types to it, but I thought you'd be interested to see that you're right about some syllables - and specifically vowels - being longer than others. So that in linguistics the English vowel sounds oo, ah, er, or and ee are known as long vowels, indicated in phonetic notation by a colon after their symbol, whereas those in tit, tat, tut, tot, soot, the and net are short. The vowel sounds in ay, oi, oh and I are different again - they're diphthongs. Consonants don't having varying phonetic length. And I think that covers it.
Monty Python hit on the same idea when they talked about woody vs tinny words.
So if you can find a footballer with a maximum combination of long vowels and diphthongs and plenty of syllables, he's your man. Clue: I'd look to see if we've had any Madagascan or Sri Lankan players first.
Sweet dreams.
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« Reply #116 on: Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 21:28:20 » |
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Well if you've got all this linguistics knowledge to actually be of help on this important issue why were you fucking about changing the font size of Simon Cox? Quite frankly I find your attitude to be a bit childish.
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« Reply #117 on: Thursday, December 10, 2009, 09:11:49 » |
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