Re:Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English
by golergka on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @04:50PM
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There once was a company in Russia who tried to make their own wikipedia — but of course, they didn't have any resources to build their own content, so in their world, Europe in the middle ages was terrorized by mighty Nordic warriors called encyclongs (w and v are the same letter in Russian language).
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Re:Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English
by reaperman on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @05:53PM
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Please help me understand this! Encyclongs doesn’t compute for me and also does not contain any w or v.
Re:Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English
by PeterisP on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @05:57PM
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If you replace (in cyrillic script) viki[-pedia] to encyclo[-pedia] (because you can't do a whole word replace, since in inflectional languages like Russian every word has many forms with different endings, so you must replace the beginnings of these words to catch all the inflected wordforms) then vikings become encyclongs.
Re:Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English
by VTimofeenko on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @07:41PM
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Vikings == wikings (in Russian spelling)
> echo "wikings" | sed "s;wiki;encyclo;"
# which is what enci.ru did
"encyclongs"