Well no, by the same logic it would be quaverquaverquaverquavic.
A hemidemisemiquaver, while a little scary for the performer, at least makes immediate perfect sense. Unlike that stupid "sixty-fourth note" rubbish. Music is art, not fractions!
dhosek 7 hours ago [-]
Fractions are art and man, music relies so much on fractions.
sublinear 14 hours ago [-]
> dating from a time when powers were written out in words rather than as superscript numbers ... he wrote that it "doeth represent the square of squares squaredly".
This is a great example of why bad naming conventions are a "smell". It strongly implies that the solution does not yet fully understand the problem it's trying to solve.
tosh 6 hours ago [-]
nb: Robert Recorde also came up with the equals sign as two horizontal parallel lines "=". Yes, that one.
Waiting for an AI startup to create a phononym of this, in the same vein as Google did...
dkarl 12 hours ago [-]
I assume it's already trademarked as a pharmaceutical name.
Waterluvian 7 hours ago [-]
Kind of! It’s the official patented name for the formulation of the original Powerade. Back then it was known as PowerEight. The recipe hasn’t changed.
They take the finest electrolytes from whatever side of the salt flats we’re on, distil them twice, then thrice, then once again thrice more. They then rehydrate it, thus infusing it with the pure essence of hydration. They add red dye (for the flavour) and memories of cherry (for the colour) and bottle it. The bottles are then dozenized and loaded onto trucks to be immediately re-homed.
Learned about all this on late night deep delve Discovery Channel soirée… or maybe it was a fever dream (which has a fascinating origin story as well, but that’s for another time.)
graypegg 14 hours ago [-]
> …it survives as a linguistic oddity: zenzizenzizenzic has more Zs than any other word in the OED.
I am an absolutely garbage scrabble player, but I will be keeping this gem in my back pocket… probably a rare case to play it though haha
Sparkle-san 14 hours ago [-]
Scrabble only comes with one Z, so some of those are gonna have be sideways N's.
gjm11 14 hours ago [-]
Also, a Scrabble board is 15 squares across and ZENZIZENZIZENZIC is 16 letters, so even with a Scrabble set with extra Zs or blanks you couldn't ever play it.
dylan604 13 hours ago [-]
even if you just played the root zenzic would be great score, but again, the solitary z would make a wee bit difficult
conradludgate 14 hours ago [-]
With one Z tile and 2 blanks...
darth_aardvark 14 hours ago [-]
In addition to the Z's everyone else pointed out, Scrabble boards are 15 tiles across. This is 16 letters. You fool. You utter gumdrop.
graypegg 12 hours ago [-]
Ah! Wrong on the internet! Oh no!
lbo462 14 hours ago [-]
That is actually pretty cool
11 hours ago [-]
AStrangeMorrow 14 hours ago [-]
Someone watched “The rest is Science” I imagine!
marcusb 13 hours ago [-]
Or tried that vocabulary estimator that is currently on the front page (it gave me zenzizenizenic in the last section.)
AStrangeMorrow 10 hours ago [-]
Yes possible. But really that video of them features the word prominently (even on the thumbnail) AND that vocabulary estimation website. The video/podcast is just slightly over a week old.
Anyway doesn’t really matter, it was more to see if anyone else was a listener of that podcast.
epihelix 7 hours ago [-]
Listened to, I assume you mean?
(Also, is it just me, or is anyone else mildly annoyed that the cleverly-titled "The rest is history" spawned a heap of meaningless "The rest is ..." siblings. Talk about letting the side down. I'm just waiting for Goal Hanger to recruit a pair of meditation gurus into their podcast stable, to make the "The rest is resting" ...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t-5lQ2mzuw
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48598586
redirects to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power
I supposed the 16th power would then be Zenzizenzizenzizenzic and so forth.
I mean zenzi-cubic
Then give it to an LLM and let it go nuts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixty-fourth_note
A hemidemisemiquaver, while a little scary for the performer, at least makes immediate perfect sense. Unlike that stupid "sixty-fourth note" rubbish. Music is art, not fractions!
This is a great example of why bad naming conventions are a "smell". It strongly implies that the solution does not yet fully understand the problem it's trying to solve.
"bicause noe 2, thynges, can be moare equalle"
(and helped make + and - signs more popular)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Recorde
see page 5:
https://sigapl.org/Articles/Language%20as%20an%20intellectua...
obligatory mention of Notation as a Tool of Thought
1979 Turing Award lecture by Ken Iverson
https://www.eecg.utoronto.ca/~jzhu/csc326/readings/iverson.p...
They take the finest electrolytes from whatever side of the salt flats we’re on, distil them twice, then thrice, then once again thrice more. They then rehydrate it, thus infusing it with the pure essence of hydration. They add red dye (for the flavour) and memories of cherry (for the colour) and bottle it. The bottles are then dozenized and loaded onto trucks to be immediately re-homed.
Learned about all this on late night deep delve Discovery Channel soirée… or maybe it was a fever dream (which has a fascinating origin story as well, but that’s for another time.)
I am an absolutely garbage scrabble player, but I will be keeping this gem in my back pocket… probably a rare case to play it though haha
Anyway doesn’t really matter, it was more to see if anyone else was a listener of that podcast.
(Also, is it just me, or is anyone else mildly annoyed that the cleverly-titled "The rest is history" spawned a heap of meaningless "The rest is ..." siblings. Talk about letting the side down. I'm just waiting for Goal Hanger to recruit a pair of meditation gurus into their podcast stable, to make the "The rest is resting" ...)