New XKCD Forums

Title text: Listen, you're very cute, but if you rearrange the alphabet to put U and I together it will RUIN the spacing!

Who else saw the title and thought this would be some sort of extrapolation from using A-G as the names of the musical notes?

Reminds me of an episode of RequestCast, a podcast I've listened to (although I don't think they're making new episodes anymore).

(Those same people made a webcomic called Terror Island, which I think I found out about from the xkcd fora, though I don't remember which thread or who posted it.)

ratammer wrote: ↑Mon Jun 26, 2023 9:27 pm Who else saw the title and thought this would be some sort of extrapolation from using A-G as the names of the musical notes?

There's a way of generating ideas for melodies that I think one of my composition teachers taught me that involves assigning each letter of the alphabet to a note. (It was just, after G, it wraps around to H = A, I = B, J = C, etc.)

This page lets you listen to those melodies (type the word in the "normal" field, then look down to where it says "music"), although I kind of don't like how that page is organized so maybe I should make a separate page at some point that's just for that.

I figure the Alphabet should be organized by popularity, the most used letters are in the beginning and the least used at the end. Each language could have their own order.
Why is K in the first half when it is used far less than U?

I know ours would start ETAOINSHRDLU in that case.

Idea that I had for an alphabetical order not that long ago (just now worked out exactly how it should go, don't remember the exact order I had at the time):
B L A M P F T H R E N D G W I C K S J O V Z Q U Y X

The idea is to make it technically pronounceable.

chridd wrote: ↑Wed Jun 28, 2023 7:51 am The idea is to make it technically pronounceable.

Ghoti is pronounced fish. Or is it the other way around? I can rarely remember.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti

chridd wrote: ↑Wed Jun 28, 2023 7:51 am Idea that I had for an alphabetical order not that long ago (just now worked out exactly how it should go, don't remember the exact order I had at the time):
B L A M P F T H R E N D G W I C K S J O V Z Q U Y X

The idea is to make it technically pronounceable.

I love that idea!

chridd wrote: ↑Wed Jun 28, 2023 7:51 am Idea that I had for an alphabetical order not that long ago (just now worked out exactly how it should go, don't remember the exact order I had at the time):
B L A M P F T H R E N D G W I C K S J O V Z Q U Y X

The idea is to make it technically pronounceable.

Just sort it alphabetically, easy-peasy

Old Bruce wrote: ↑Wed Jun 28, 2023 7:19 pm

chridd wrote: ↑Wed Jun 28, 2023 7:51 am The idea is to make it technically pronounceable.

Ghoti is pronounced fish. Or is it the other way around? I can rarely remember.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti

pronounced fish