• @[email protected]
      27•6 months 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•6 months 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•6 months 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•6 months ago

            And “red big car” is wrong.

          • @[email protected]
            1•6 months 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]
              1•6 months 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
        5•6 months ago

        Heathen! You must alphabetize all the things!

        Like seriously. It makes scanning code much easier.