📜 TIL the Korean alphabet Hangul is one of the only major writing systems invented from scratch for its own language, and its letters are drawings of your mouth.
King Sejong the Great finished it in 1443 so common people could read and write. The consonants literally trace the speech organs: ㄱ is the tongue root blocking the throat, ㅁ is lips pressed together, ㅅ is the teeth.
The vowels encode sky, earth, and human: a dot, a horizontal line, and a vertical stroke.
The scholar class hated it. For 400 years it was treated as a script for women, monks, and commoners, until it went mainstream in the late 1800s. Hangul Day is now a national holiday in South Korea.
@lwindolf have you tried using Sysprof yet? It was in my plans to run it on Liferea when you are done with the GTK4 port, because I didn't want to distract while it was still WIP 😶🌫️
The funny little coincidence was that this end of trial happened at the exact time that I installed a new DECT phone at my parents, which led us to the suspicion it might be some weird interference/bug. It took us quite a few hours to deduct it must be something else and finally find out about this 4 week trial thing. Le sigh.
@Jay16K Yep. We found that too. Tomorrow will be spent driving around 4 towns nearby, hoping that in one of them we find a technician with a kind heart. Not the plan I had in mind when visiting my parents, but alas.
Damn. Teenage Engineering gave me a 30% discount code, so I had to order the EP 136 Sidekick to go along with my EP-40 Riddim Groovebox/sampler. Damn. https://teenage.engineering/products/ep-136
@philbowell Sounds great! I noticed that Micro Social now has built-in tags for bookmarks like “read”, which I thought was an interesting way to track it without official API support.
