1,626 Reply by William

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Fixed it.

The phone was telling me there was an unread recorded message waiting to be read.

https://community.bt.com/t5/Archive-Sta … -p/2151363

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1,627 Topic by William

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It is a BT Decor 2600 telephone that has worked fine for quite a time, but has started doing this today.

William

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1,628 Topic by William

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A serendipitous discovery.

I was checking whether there have recently been any updates on the wikipedia page about telesoftware.

I remembered an idea of mine, from late seventies (so pre-web) of a database from which broadcasters throughout the world could access to then broadcast in their own lands.

I called the database StarDisc. I produced a logo using metal type printed on an Adana 8 x 5 printing machine

It had STAR and DISC on a line, with letters in a similar style to ASCII art, but using metal type, stars for the Word STAR and filled discs for the word DISC.

Thinking it unlikely, I nevertheless searched to check if there was any reference to StarDisc on the web.

Not connected to my idea, but I found the following.

https://stardisc.org/

William


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1,629 Reply by William

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The format could be used for any Unicode character, not just emoji.

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1,630 Reply by William

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Hi Joe

At the most basic level by writing U+WXYZ where W, X, Y, and Z here represent any of the sixteen hexadecimal characters, that is each of W, X, Y, and Z as expressed here would be one of 1, 2, .. 9, A .. F as appropriate for the particular Unicode character.

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1,631 Reply by William

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BZN - Poor Old Joe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8xn1XJTzw4

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1,632 Reply by William

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Well-rehearsed choreography from Gitti and Erika

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDHc4-Cr_kc

William

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1,633 Topic by William

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Some readers may remember the following from over five years ago.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/s … _emoji.htm

I imagine a telegraph office in the Old West with a lady sat with rolls of printed emoji symbols, cutting them off the rolls as needed, some in soft colours, and pasting them within the telegrapher's handwritten message in the gaps he has left for the purpose.

I have now thought of a potentially useful extension to Morse code.

Suppose that there is a specific, at present unused, Morse code sequence.

Suppose that after each use of that specific new Morse code character one can have four, six or seven already existing Morse Code characters, that together indicate a specific Unicode character.

For plane 0, four characters to give the hexadecimal sequence of the Unicode character.

For planes 1 to 15, six characters, X followed by five characters to give the hexadecimal sequence of the Unicode character.

For plane 16, seven characters, V followed by six characters to give the hexadecimal sequence of the Unicode character.

This could allow access to any Unicode character that now encoded and those yet to become encoded too.

William

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1,634 Reply by William

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46 replies and 995 views, but the thread has gone peculiar and indeed somewhat silly.

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1,635 Reply by William

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Bore da,
You've travelled far.

William

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1,636 Topic by William

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Most posts by me,
Mais c'est la vie.

William

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1,637 Reply by William

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31 replies and 668 views.

Most posts by me,
Mais c'est la vie.

William

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1,638 Reply by William

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https://i.postimg.cc/JGVhDHcm/good-day-in-Dutch.png

Please click to enlarge.

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1,639 Reply by William

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30 replies and 597 views.

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1,640 Reply by William

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25 replies and 517 views and onto page 2 of the thread.

A good discussion, go, go ,go!

William

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1,641 Reply by William

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As a military march

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgkfvVirkaI

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1,642 Reply by William

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Radetzky March

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ROjMVHIELk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xToFOzD0M8E

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1,643 Reply by William

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23 replies and 444 views now.

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1,644 Reply by William

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The discussion has got under way.

8 replies and 303 views at present.

William

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1,645 Reply by William

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Old Spinning Wheel - a jazz version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8z8KWdDvNg

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1,646 Reply by William

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I was finding that when to use, to translate from English to Dutch the word 'the', that when to use 'de' and when to use 'het' was causing me problems sometimes.

Part of it is that diminutive nouns always use 'het'.

https://www.bing.com/search?pglt=43& … e+in+dutch

I wondered what is a diminutive noun.

There is a link on the above page.

I found this page. Dutch seems to have a lot of them, with some having a meaning not obvious as a diminutive form of the original word.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_d … y_language

A rather nice example is the following.

> bloem (flower) → bloempje (lit. "small flower") This is the regularly formed diminutive.
> bloem (flower) → bloemetje (lit. also "small flower", but meaning bouquet).

I also found the following.

https://thedutchonlineacademy.com/en/grammar/de-or-het

William

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1,647 Reply by William

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Another song sung by Lale Andersen.

Blau Nacht am Hafen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijw-Wm1OFWo

https://lyricstranslate.com/en/blaue-na … arbor.html

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I have now progressed to Unit 2 of the Dutch course.

Here is the image from the first exercise of the first lesson of Unit 2 of the Dutch course. The Welsh course and the Esperanto course also use the same technique.

https://i.postimg.cc/jnj33LFP/Dutch2.png

William

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Here is an image from an exercise from a lesson. I gathered the image after I had partly completed the exercise so as to show that one clicks on the words to complete the answer. Not all of the words offered are needed in order to complete the answer.

https://i.postimg.cc/9DPn8tNv/Dutch.png

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1,650 Reply by William

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Alfred wrote:
William wrote:

The Duolingo method is unlike I have ever seen before. For example, the tortoise.
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I have long wanted to learn Dutch. It is not one of the mainstream languages usually offered at evening classes and the like, namely French, German, Spanish, Italian.
Yet Dutch is in this song.
Nicole - Ein bisschen Frieden - Eurovision de la Chanson - diverse Sprachen - 1982
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwoYCTZPjO4
I have not studied German very much but I have picked up some from translations of songs.

There is, unsurprisingly, a close connection between Dutch and Deutsch.

The comma on the line after “For example, the tortoise.” looks rather lonely, William! Did you mean to post something else?

I don't know why the comma is on that line.

Possibly lack of effective proof reading before posting?

William

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