Enhypen Alphabet

Enhypen Alphabet (‘empirical nominal hyperlingual notation’) is a language-neutral spelling system for Chinese characters, specifically for Chinese-derived proper names. It bears less prejudice from Mandarin, as compared to Yuen Ren Chao’s General Chinese and Professor Gu Qian’s Common Sound Systems of Chinese Dialects, where the bias is more or less dedicated.

It serves as a startpoint to ‘Sinicize’ respective for tacit perceptions of characters, which is barely possible for natural languages, stubborn for previous works, and Shidinn leads to the other extreme.

omekapo, Lánzhōu

tenpo pini lili la, mi tawa weka tan tomo sona lon ma tomo Lánzhōu.

mi pana e lipu mi la, tenpo suno luka luka tu tu li tawa. tenpo pini ni la, mi awen wile pona e lipu. taso, mi pilin ike tawa nasin mi la, mi ken ala toki. tenpo pi kama sona li pini lon tenpo lili. taso, mi jaki lukin li jaki pilin.

说说选登

晚七点，我逡巡在积石堂三个大字下，啜泣不止，看着门洞越来越陌生。

此生最自由的时刻，就是高中听着阁子的鸟鸣，对未来懵懵懂懂，或者刚来兰州时看着技术书睡着，不知今夕何夕。我在自我介绍里 “passionate about” 的 “my chosen field” 仅那时才给过清欢片刻，此后只有无尽的遗憾。

「挺」的中古三字

RIME 给 BYVoid 说是「神级输入法」，这话还在主页耍拉子哩。一看才知是 2012 年写的，发了老半天哩，奈会子黄雀飞做黄码用的都不是 RIME。贾的圈子看的是人人都做编码哩蛮，实际都听梆声哩，隔三间五赶群里「这个方案好，这个以外都不行」或「咨们不直接用那个」，轻飘得很。

切韵拼音有了之后，SyiMyuZya 做了切韵拼音三拼输入方案，和切韵拼音不搭腔。看见奈会一猛子想起挺（人名）的中古三字也是先有拼音。看着两面个文档思谋一下，还是用了挺的方案，scheme 在群里面，没在 GitHub。原 scheme 屏显挺的全拼，用的潘悟云音系，粗奘奘地转写，嫌难看哩，换了音韵地位。选单窄的哩，多字词又长，音韵地位不能一搭写，比方例字 qieyun-js 的写法是来开三祭去，就成个 來ᵏ³祭꜄。

最后一天

当郑若奎掀开帷帐时，并非如自己无数次想象一般怒不可遏。相反，他带着体力透支时的僵硬与清爽，自己都近乎不察觉手的颤动。绝对的自然法则一旦逼近，薛西斯也只能俯首称臣，放下恋恋不舍的权杖。

保持瓶的传说已在巷议中持续数年。起先是荒诞的故事，此后相信的人越来越多。不过这已不重要了，因为世界的真相不是靠投票决定的，而明天这里就会与其他地方一样，沦为疠疫的鬼城。

Which character for inbound passengers?

During the climax of COVID-19 lockdown, the news bulletin was flooded with the phrase lai x faan x renyuan (inbound passengers of x) or similar, where x is a monosyllabic short name of a geographic unit. The short names for units other than provinces has been far less common at present than the first half of the last century, when you are expected to read in columns. A critique that time states that the short names are so irrecognisable that writers need to annotate the full names, as in across Ping (Peiping), Tsin (Tientsin)… (from memory, I cannot find the source by now).

I crawled recent announcements for this post. I did not discern the full name actually denoted in the context, making the data noisy. Regions with insufficient data were omitted.…

Kokanu in lika Hanci

It is Kokanu anyhow. nin je Kokanu’s zeal being undermined by the one-size-fits-all attempts to not distinguish word formation and syntax, there is still great need to renovate the Hanzi/Kanji transliteration. And here it goes.

Still, it bears maximal inter-intelligibility with the Second Polling Scheme of toki pona.

Number of shapes of Rubik’s snake

I wrote a program running on my roommate’s laptop for a day, before failed attempts on my VPS. The result is 10,440,540,672,944. However, I saw a different result somewhere, hence unconfident in my program.

دࣱخُاْ ۋاًخُوَاتࣨ

ۋَ زَى دࣱخُاْ ڤࣱخُا ىُوِ ىِشۇ قِْکوَ جاًش، باَ iPad داَ ج خوتوْ. ۋَ شٍکِ لِ، HTML خا موَ دِىُو. کِش زوْس خُۇَاباً دَى ىُوًبَو زدࣨقِ. نًکً س نًکً، ىٍوِ ۋَ خۇلُوً ش دِ. بۇجً لِ، لوْش شَه: نِمۇ بوخوِ بۇجً، مًدِخٍ.

Childhood

This series is taken from Lú Chānghǎi’s Retrospection. Only after being reminded by a classmate did I come to understand that Chānghǎi’s account of his unique experiences with his contemporaries was not accidental. I did not lament, for they at least had once been the chosen ones, whereas I was far from being someone at the forefront of the present age. No matter how difficult or arduous, or even how resentful, I was merely a country bumpkin, watching the spectacle from afar, unable to take part.

Though our choices varied greatly, my nostalgia was in many ways similar to Chānghǎi. My self-perception in high school was even based on the concept like ‘Muqliongism,’ but the distant past merely existed like still water in an old well, a phantom lodging in the present. The later misfortunes could not be blamed on the hometown; they were equally due to the limits of my nature and mistaken decisions.…