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@pony I'd venture it's perhaps Romanian, in which case it would be an equivalent to a chocolate bar called "Czech". But yes, in a different country, it has different connotations.

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1614236320892608513/pu/vid/640x640/C_C4G3LimdjQ2E5F.mp4

@piggo I am looking at that spec of yours, I wouldn't break my head about it. The address is optional anyway and if I understand it right also superfluous (why would you have server device being able to respond to multiple device addresses there?). If I were you, I would model it as a regexp like `/[^!]*!\r`, or something like that. But you are right, the spec is rather cryptic in this regard. My hunch is that they are trying to say that the device address is "unique" in its entirety, i.e., only one device can have that address and it cannot happen that multiple devices would have the same. Like a MAC address spec (while we all know they are not that unique in reality, but that is an implementation detail). But it's a very clumsy formulation for an IEC standard.

@piggo "and their combination may be used only once". I guess that's why the author needed to coin a new term here.

@piggo "light plotter" - maybe I should now invent it... 🤔

@johngiordano Whether something is a 1st amendment issue or not is something you'd have to sort out in you own country, such definitions are not and shall not be universal - different societies/countries and jurisdictions can decide as they see fit.

These milk substitutes certainly are very different from nutritional perspective and are produced differently. They just look and maybe perhaps taste similar (I do not know myself, I don't consume these things). As far as I know, in jurisdictions like EU, it's accepted and thus such products cannot be called "milk". It's a similar situation for instance between tea (as in black tea) and herbal infusions, which in many countries are also called and used as "tea" - but they are very very different drinks. Same for coffee vs chicory root products. EU regulates this sort of labeling quite strictly and I can see why. Whether US wants/ends up to do the same is up to them of course, and if they decide no to I also can see reasons why that shall be the case.

Finally, just to say, where I come from, in some parts of the society, you might have a very hard time to insist that water and vodka cannot be used interchangeably 😄 .

@maxroser

@maxroser Well, "milk". These are indeed very different substances so to be fair, the comparison shall be perhaps between various "breakfast drinks", then between "different milks". That water and vodka look the same and are consumed at similar occasions does not make them comparable foodstuffs, does it? And if we go the route of "breakfast drinks" than plain water, or tea, or herbal tea should be involved too... 🤔

@piggo But it's an interesting question - lexical distances between languages. I recalled I saw things like this in the past - no clue about any scientific validity. So I looked it up:
- https://imgur.com/a/H3HZK9t
- https://www.openculture.com/2017/08/a-colorful-map-visualizes-the-lexical-distances-between-europes-languages.html

@piggo very controversial panslavic postulate here 🙂

@piggo Well, now you have some work to do to align the theory predictions with the observations. 🤔 Reminds me of this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procrustes

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@pony

@piggo yes

@onlmaps Well, well, there are some true, yet somewhat misleading figures here obviously. Those 12% in Slovakia does not mean that everybody is so "educated", it only means that people understand and can reasonably well "imitate" Czech. I am not even sure that shall be called "foreign" language, given that the two languages are intelligible. Those "12%" are certainly a different quality that the "14%" of the Netherlands which mean that people truly speak a foreign language.

Similarly for Baltics, vast majority of population speaks Russian, which technically is a foreign language, but I'd wager that in 30 years that number will change drastically.

@piggo Actually I expected some electro, not this "no name" 😄

@piggo Man, I looked it up, no need to tell me anymore. The connection did not click, but now I see what it is. You have a very sweet musical taste 😵 😄 .

@piggo Anyway, the music, is it any good?