• @verstra
    27•1 month ago

    This is the real big-endian way. So your things line-up when you have all of these:

    file_dialogue_open
file_dialogue_close
file_dropdown_open
file_rename
directory_remove

    If I were designing a natural language, I’d put adjectives after the nouns, so you start with the important things first:

    car big red

    instead of

    big red car

    • @[email protected]
      6•1 month ago

      If I were designing a natural language, I’d put adjectives after the nouns, so you start with the important things first

      So - French?

      • @[email protected]
        4•30 days ago

        The thing is that in French, Spanish, etc. it still makes sense if you put the adjective before the noun, even if it might sound weird in some cases. An adjective is an adjective and a noun is a noun.

        But English is positional. Where you put a word gives it its function. So “red car” and “car red” mean different things.

        • ddhEnglish
          4•30 days ago

          And “red big car” is wrong.

        • @[email protected]
          1•30 days ago

          That’s because they are romance languages. They come from Latin where word order is irrelevant as each “word” has a different form for the specific use.

          • @[email protected]
            0•30 days ago

            Yes, that’s what I said. My native language is a romance language too. And after speaking it her whole life, my wife has trouble getting the grasp of how in English swapping two words completely changes the meaning of what she’s saying (especially when it’s two nouns, like e.g. “parent council”)

    • @[email protected]English
      4•1 month ago

      Heathen! You must alphabetize all the things!

      Like seriously. It makes scanning code much easier.