everyone send me your favourite non-ASCII unicode symbols that you would actually use in the context of a printed work
@onethousandtwentyfour ⁂, þ, π, μ, Ω
@Rosemary you have very good taste~
@onethousandtwentyfour Thank you! I considered putting ꙮ and ⸎ but I can't see many situations where we'd actually use those in a written work.
@Rosemary oh my gosh Helvetica incorrectly displays ⸎ as a square root sign and it was so confusing at first
(as a side-note, √ROOT *is* a handy thing to be able to type in linguistics)
@onethousandtwentyfour That's odd. √ is a nice symbol, though. Does it show up in linguistics literature?
@Rosemary i mean, just in the set phrase "√ROOT" to signify the linguistic root of a word, as far as i have ever seen
@onethousandtwentyfour I've never seen that one. But I'm only into linguistics as a hobby/casual interest.
@Rosemary here's a sample, from "A Grammatical Sketch of Nxaʼamxcin (Moses‐Columbia Salish)" by Marie Louise Willett
it's very much a "Chomskyan transformational grammar" sort of thing
@onethousandtwentyfour If I'm understanding that right, this is an extremely inflected language.
@onethousandtwentyfour Ah, that explains that then, yeah. Just from the name I would have guessed mesoamerican? It reminds me of some of the Mayan languages' names.
@Rosemary no relation afaik :P
it covers the pacific northwest, mostly WA state and British Columbia
(The name Moses‐Columbia for Nxaʼamxcin refers to Chief Moses and the Columbia Basin in Washington, where it was spoken, but Salish more notably also includes Squamish [as seen on attached BC road sign] and the Lushootseed languages/dialects [Snohomish, Skagit, Snoqualmie, Duwamish, Puyallup, etc, which are names most Seattlites would probably recognize])
@Rosemary yeah Salish is a North American indigenous language family and like a lot of New World languages it's highly agglutinative