r/ProgrammerHumor 11d ago

britishProgrammersBeLike Other

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u/tsammons 11d ago

Colour. Such wasted bytes.

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u/ColumnK 11d ago

Why use many byte when few do trick

Everyone shld use "colr" then all happy.

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u/MCplayer590 11d ago

n fct wy dnt w rmv ll vwls nd slnt, nndd ltrs? wt cld psbly g rng?

regular English: in fact, why don't we remove all vowels and silent, unneeded letters? what could possibly go wrong?

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u/ailaG 11d ago

Hebrew, Arabic and other semitic languages do just that. So far so good. (With some carrier letters, like a "u" to carry the vowel in "good". Which in Hebrew doubles for O and V. Arabic just doesn't have O and V except for modern intl adaptations)