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Pronunciation
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Overview
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Hoon is a reserved-word-free
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language - any text in the program is part of the program.
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We use so many of these ASCII glyphs that we like to be able
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to read them out loud. A language is meant to be _said_. The
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squiggles have conventional names, sort of, some of them easy to
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say, others not so much. So we've renamed them:
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ace space
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bar |
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bas \
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buc $
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cab _
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cen %
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col :
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com ,
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doq "
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dot .
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fas /
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gal <
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gar >
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hax #
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hep -
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kel {
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ker }
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ket ^
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lus +
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pam &
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pat @
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pel (
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per )
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sel [
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sem ;
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ser ]
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sig ~
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soq '
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tar *
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tec `
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tis =
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wut ?
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zap !
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Memorizing these names seems like a burden, but it actually makes
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communicating about hoon code a lot faster and easier. `bartis`
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sounds a lot better than 'bar equals'.
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To pronounce a rune, concatenate the glyph names, stressing the
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first syllable and softening the second vowel into a "schwa."
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Hence, to say `~.`, say "sigdot." To say `|=`, say "bartis."
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Which has an inevitable tendency to turn into "barts" - a sin
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to be encouraged.
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There are a few runes with irregular special pronunciations:
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-- hephep phep
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+- lushep slep
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++ luslus slus
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== tistis stet
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+< lusgal glus
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+> lusgar gras
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-< hepgal gelp
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-> hepgar garp
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