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▲ 24 r/inanimateinsanity

A theory on why Tea Kettle is not named "Teapot"

We all know that even though she is called "Tea Kettle", she is actually a teapot.

This might just be something arbitrary the creators decided on, but I actually have a theory behind this.

First of all, one thing I should point out is that "teapot" has the exact same pronunciation as "TPOT" (BFDI season 5). This will be very relevant to this theory.

During production of Inanimate Insanity Invitational, TPOT (the BFDI season) was already so popular among OSC members and II fans since a majority of them are also fans of BFDI; the two franchises are often intertwined nowadays.

My theory basically states that the II crew decided to name their new teapot character "Tea Kettle" instead of "Teapot" to avoid confusion with "TPOT", since that was already a very popular term in the OSC.

What do you all think of this theory? Feel free to share any criticism that you have!

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u/GallicAdlair81 — 4 days ago
▲ 15 r/numberblocks

What if Blockzilla used spoons to represent more inequalities?

There aren't a lot of concepts for what "greater or equal to", "less or equal to", and "not equal to" would look like in Numberblocks, so I thought of an interesting idea:

What if those inequalities were represented by Blockzilla holding up a spoon?

Sometimes, Blockzilla wants to be fair and give the smaller number a chance to play too, so she points her spoon towards the smaller number in hopes that they will be just as big as the number on the other side to play. This represents greater/less than.

"x is greater than or equal to y! Me like x, but me too like y as long as they as big!"
"x is less than or equal to y! Me like y, but me too like x as long as they as big!"

Other times, Blockzilla doesn't feel like playing and points her spoon in front of her mouth as a sign of denial. This represents "not equal to".

"x is not equal to y! Me no want to play right now!"

What do you think of this idea?

(the artwork is made by me on Magma)

u/GallicAdlair81 — 16 days ago
▲ 0 r/conorthography

Simplescript (my constructed script for English)

Here is my own semi-phonemic constructed script for English known as Simplescript. I've developed this script for almost four years now up to its current version: 6.0.

A chart showing the script's full alphabet and main sounds of each letter.

Notes:

  • ◌̥ is used on the vowel it reduces in trad-orthography (ḁdisyo̥n, sє̥(r)tifí̥kḁ́t, é̥lektrisi̥ti̥). Despite the chart saying otherwise, ◌̥ can represent any reduced vowel (including /ɪ, i, u, ju/), not just /ə/.
  • Unstressed /u, ju/ are written as <ꝏ̥́, ú̥>, but unstressed /i/ can be written as either <i̥> or <é̥>.
  • /dʒ, ʃ, tʃ, ʒ/ as realizations of orthographic /dj, sj, tj, zj/ are written with D, S, T, and Z before Y, Ú, and Ʊ́ instead of J, Ṡ, Ċ, and Ż.
  • Rhotic vowels are written the exact same way in both American and British English with the absence of R in the coda in British English. For example, "care" is written as "kⲇ́r" in American English and ""kⲇ́" in British English.
  • The number of vowel letters is always equal to the number of syllables in a word. For example, "lⲇ́(r)" has one syllable, while "láє̥(r)" has two.
  • Both stress marks are optional. They are usually placed over / under the entire stressed syllable (I know Unicode isn't too good with that, but whatever).

Example sentence:

Simplescript: Δ(r) ḋóz báż Ʊ́ró̥péḁn fꝏtwⲇ́(r), kȣbꞯ ċaps, joli̥ є(r)ṫmꝏ́viṅ hedgє́(r), ɔ(r) unúzú̥ḁli̥ yéldiṅ tꞷ́ri̥sts in Ṡaṅhí?

Translation: Are those beige European footwear, cowboy chaps, jolly earthmoving headgear, or unusually yielding tourists in Shanghai?

Credit: List of pangrams | Clagnut by Richard Rutter (though I edited it a little to include all of the letters)

So, what do you think of this constructed script? Feel free to give out any suggestions or criticism!

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u/GallicAdlair81 — 1 month ago