(August 6, 2012 at 4:00 pm)Kayenneh Wrote: I wouldn't have known it otherwise, but my dad wrote his own programming language and called it Ghoti, so that is why I know
Ah, so you cheated
! Actually, it's a bit of a linguistic chicanery, supposedly about the English Spelling Reform. As Wikipedia says "Linguists have pointed out that the placement of the letters in the constructed word is in fact inconsistent with the claimed pronunciation." On one level, it's my way of protesting what is usually called Americanised spelling; on another level, the one involving reality, it's a bit of nonsense which appeals to my fondness for the absurd.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
