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At my professor’s suggestion, I made a quick-and-dirty IPA to French converter. So now you can read this hypothetical French as if it were real French!
Arma uirumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris
Harme vironque chien, Troi quie praim hay houre
aʁm vi.ʁɔ̃k ʃjɛ̃, t̪ʁwa ki pʁɛ̃ ɛ uʁItaliam fato profugus Lauiniaque uenit
Hiâi fer preux Lonoive vien
i.ɑj fe pʁø lɔn̪.wav vjɛ̃litora, multum ille et terris iactatus et alto
lire, moue heux ïer taire jètter ïer haute
liʁ, mu ø je t̪ɛʁ ʒɛ.t̪e je ot̪ui superum, saeuae memorem Iunonis ob iram,
vie souvier, sief miembre Junnom heux hire,
vi suv.je, sjɛf mjɛ̃bʁ ʒy.n̪ɔ̃ ø iʁ,multa quoque et bello passus, dum conderet urbem
moute cuive ïer bot pa, dom quondre houre
mut̪ kɥiv je bo pa, d̪ɔ̃ kɔ̃d̪ʁ uʁinferretque deos Latio; genus unde Latinum
hainfrètque dieux Lay; jien hom Laïn
ɛ̃f.ʁɛt̪k d̪jø lɛ; ʒjɛ̃ ɔ̃ la.ɛ̃Albanique patres atque altae moenia Romae.
Haubbennive père hatque haute maign Rom.
o.bə.n̪iv pɛʁ at̪k ot̪ mɛɲ ʁɔ̃.Musa, mihi causas memora, quo numine laeso
Muse, mie chose miembre, queux nume lier
myz, mi ʃoz mjɛ̃bʁ, kø n̪ym ljequidue dolens regina deum tot uoluere casus
quèf dieux rine dieux teux voudre cher
kɛf d̪jø ʁin̪ d̪jø t̪ø vud̪ʁ ʃeinsignem pietate uirum, tot adire labores
hisim pitier voire, teux haïre loure
i.zɛ̃ pit̪.je vwaʁ, t̪ø a.iʁ luʁimpulerit. Tantaene animis caelestibus irae?
hampoudre. Tantre hot saillay hire?
ɑ̃.pud̪ʁ. t̪ɑ̃t̪ʁ o sɛ.lɛ iʁ?
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a really positive one:
dealt in a decisive manner with the THROW-related in my IFComp entry, whose can put the story into an unpleasant unwinnable state
(Now that the judging period is done, I can write this, isn’t ?)
the relevant source code, sorry for the harsh commenting:
! sterilising, castrating, evirating, chaining, torturing, and generally doing
! all conceivable evils in deactivating the misbehaving THROW, now replaced
! gloriously with DIP
COMMAND THROW ANY
printmessage
Nice try, not-so-dear bug into unwinnable state, but by the might of Imp's
fiat, you will \bf\NEVER EVER\nobf\ do your evil. \bf\FOREVER !\nobf\
END_MESSAGE
DoneWithTurn
END_COMMAND
! albeit is annoying to deal with EVERY two-noun variation of THROW 1 by 1
COMMAND THROW ANY AT ANY
redirectTo THROW ANY
END_COMMAND
COMMAND THROW ANY TO ANY
redirectTo THROW ANY
END_COMMAND
COMMAND THROW ANY IN ANY
redirectTo THROW ANY
END_COMMAND
COMMAND THROW ANY INTO ANY
redirectTo THROW ANY
END_COMMAND
COMMAND THROW ANY ACROSS ANY
redirectTo THROW ANY
END_COMMAND
COMMAND THROW ANY INSIDE ANY
redirectTo THROW ANY
END_COMMAND
of course, the sorely-needed postcomp release is in due process, I hope to release it around the 20th, that is, after the publication of the results.
Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio
(sipping one of his best liquor…)
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Seven hours of sleep. Unbelievable.
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Who would be vulgar enough to do that?
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One kidney, two kidneys, one lung, two lungs, one heart, two hearts,… Hey!?
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I reckon, when I count at all
First organs, then the sun,
Then skulls, and then the Heaven of God,
And then the count is done
But looking back the first so seems
To encompass the whole
The rest appears a needless show
So I count - organs - all
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A Gallifreyan ? 
Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.
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Archived my Twine stuff, apparently there’s 70 stories floating around in that soup. Been having fun with the Lifeberg world event in Fallen London- it’s cool seeing the count for zee beasts slain tick up so quickly. Spent a decent chunk of last day working on some odds and ends… Though I think I’m getting a bit sick of writing dialog heavy stuff, so I might bop back to my other project… Or scribble something else that’s been on the brain… we’ll see.
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An acquaintance got a surprise cat, (just a little guy, about half a year old) and I was able to help by linking to some useful resources from one of my favourite animal rescuers, yippee! It’s a very cute fluffy black kitten.
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One of my best friends from high school (waaaaay back in the 80s), who I haven’t seen in almost 10 years, is on his way here to me right now. So deliriously happy.
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I’ve been having a lot of fun experimenting with making zines, lately. It’s really cathartic, and deeply personal, and it’s incredibly satisfying to see something come together fairly quickly. Plus, pink!
It’s been nice to make more personal work, that has stronger overtones of hope or happiness, too. Writing the heavy emotional stuff is important to me as well, but it’s nice to have things be a little lighter sometimes… and I’ve been feeling really sentimental as of late.
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Sophia, with what program(s) ? AFAIK, there’s noy much opensource DTP program…
Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.
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Got the pest man to spray the heavy stuff around the basement. Hopefully (CW:bugs) the big fuck off roach I found this morning is the last one. It was almost dead, at least. But I’d so much rather NOT have found it, thank you very much. UK to Spain, you trade spiders for cockroaches, ho hum.
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I’m not sure what a DTP program is! I’ve been using Canva for assembling the images and some colour correction, and then the Electric Zine Maker’s HTML reader/export tool to make it into a flip book you can play from a browser, rather than having to download it as a PDF or print individual pages.
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DTP I think is desktop publishing?
(My workplace has a million acronyms and we’ve recognized we need to do a better job explaining them for newer staff, so I get twitchy when I see an undefined acronym dangling around lol)
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Prince Feckless has already presented me with some great puzzles, just right to get a rush of adrenalin when I get a flash of the solution, and endorphins when my intuition actually works out.
The chess puzzle resides on an altogether higher plane though. Literal shivers down my spine when the lightning bolt of intuition zapped my brain.
Pure brilliance.
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yes, DTP = DeskTop Publishing, sorry for the acronym…
Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.
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Oh! With the IFComp hubbub and a bunch of real life stuff, I almost forgot to share this with all you beautifully creative and imaginative people.
During the autumn school vacation, we (son, love, me) went to Brussels for a few days.
It was a real adventure getting there. There was a heavy windstorm raging, and all the train traffic in Belgium was seriously disrupted. Notice boards in the trainstations were empty, personnel was running from platform to platform with clipboards under their arms to notify travelers of the latest changes in departure times and cancelled trains. Tracks were damaged by falling trees, overhead electrical lines were snapped by the wind…
As if by miracle, we still got to our hotel with only an hour and a half delay. We didn’t do much by way of sightseeing that evening… Shower and a delicious meal in a nearby restaurant.
The next day was beautifully sunny. We walked through the historical center of the city in T-shirt. Seriously, the 16th century Grand Market of Brussels is a sight to behold. Breathlessly. Frozen by the effort to take in all the intricate details and decorations.
Of course we had to pass by Manneken Pis. I think this is one of the greatest examples of Belgian absurdist humour. Paris has the Eiffel tower, New York has the Statue of Liberty.
Brussels has a little pissing boy:
A statue of a toddler peeing.
He’s no taller than a real toddler, standing on his pedestal on the otherwise unremarkable corner of a merchants’ street, and (this is the bit that I love) tourists from all over the world gather in droves before him to take pictures!
The highpoint of our visit was:
Promotional poster for Tim Burton’s Labyrinth
It’s an exhibit fashioned as a trip through the mind of the great director himself. Twisty little passages lead to decorated rooms themed after each of his films. There are lifesize, lifelike wax-like puppets of many characters, including Edward Scissorhands, the Red Queen, and my personal favourite Jack Skellington.
Jack Skellington grinning down at the
spectator.
Most impressive however were the drawings by Tim Burton, showing his imagination and his creative process from the inside. Some are mere ballpoint sketches, some very intricate pen-and-ink drawings with blotches of colour and handwritten text to clarify his thoughts.
Truly amazing.
Black ink drawing of Edward Scissorhands
by Tim Burton.
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I was lucky enough to get to visit Belgium as a teen, courtesy of relatives who lived there temporarily, and they made sure to take us to see Manneken Pis! 
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