a deer,

a female deer…

Does this experiment always end up with the same loop?

Thought I’d try a little experiment with Wikipedia, click on the first link on a page then the first link on the next page etc.

Ended up in a loop.

Philosophy
Greek
Modern Greek

International_Phonetic_Alphabet
Alphabetic
Letter
Grapheme
Linguistics
Science
Knowledge
Awareness
Quality
Philosophy

After
Modern Greek
Help:IPA for Greek
International Phonetic Alphabet

mollwollfumble said:

Does this experiment always end up with the same loop?

Thought I’d try a little experiment with Wikipedia, click on the first link on a page then the first link on the next page etc.

Ended up in a loop.

Philosophy
Greek
Modern Greek

International_Phonetic_Alphabet
Alphabetic
Letter
Grapheme
Linguistics
Science
Knowledge
Awareness
Quality
Philosophy

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Not if you cut / untie the Gordian Knot

dv said:

!https://animalcorner.co.uk/wp-content/img/fallowdeer.jpg

mollwollfumble said:

Does this experiment always end up with the same loop?

Thought I’d try a little experiment with Wikipedia, click on the first link on a page then the first link on the next page etc.

Ended up in a loop.

Can end up in a different loop with only two elements.

Wikipedia:Administration
Wikipedia:About

Perhaps these are the only two common loops.

Many chains lead to a pronunciation using letters from the International Phonetic Alphabet. The IPA page for Greek or French leads to the first philosophy loop. The IPA page for English leads to the second Administration loop.

Perhaps if I skip hyperlinks from pronunciations.
International phonetic

Try this loop:

Knowledge
Fact
Formal verification
Software system
System
Interaction
Action (physics)
Physics
Natural science
Science
Knowledge

I don’t like the way verification redirects to formal verification, or how action redirects to action (physics). They are totally different meanings.

Perhaps I can fiddle with Wikipedia to increase the loop length ;-)

mollwollfumble said:

Does this experiment always end up with the same loop?

Thought I’d try a little experiment with Wikipedia, click on the first link on a page then the first link on the next page etc.

Ended up in a loop.

Philosophy
Greek
Modern Greek

International_Phonetic_Alphabet
Alphabetic
Letter
Grapheme
Linguistics
Science
Knowledge
Awareness
Quality
Philosophy

Why is there an international phonetic alphabet and the aviation phonetic alphabet?

bob(from black rock) said:

Why is there an international phonetic alphabet and the aviation phonetic alphabet?

I hadn’t heard of the aviation phonetic alphabet. Checking wiki:
“The International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet, commonly known as the ICAO phonetic alphabet, sometimes called the NATO alphabet or spelling alphabet”.
That’s an error-avoidance tool. Letters “bee” and “dee” sound so similar that for aviation “bravo” and “delta” are used because because they sound quite different.
There are 41 words in the aviation phonetic alphabet, one for each letter in the English alphabet plus numbers and punctuation.
It’s a spoken alphabet.

The International Phonetic Alphabet is a written alphabet. Think Professor Higgins of “My Fair Lady”. The IPA has 74 different consonants and 28 vowels, as well as 31 different diacritic marks as well as “suprasegmentals”, “tones and word accents” and “other symbols”.
The purpose of the International Phonetic Alphabet is to make an accurate written record of the sound of every word in every human language and dialect.

Lamest thread title since re:

Ian said:

Lamest thread title since re:

Tablet still giving trouble.
In this case backspace key somehow caused premature thread submission.

mollwollfumble said:

Ian said:

Lamest thread title since re:

Tablet still giving trouble.
In this case backspace key somehow caused premature thread submission.

They’ve got pills for that.

In other Wikipedia news, the Wikipedia administrators have now built a bot that removes Wikipedia pages when the same material is found on external web pages, for copyright reasons. Only, they never bother to check that the Wikipedia page was written before the external webpage. Copying material off Wikipedia has become common. So Wikipedia is losing many pages for no good reason. Eg. the “Multinational corporation” page.