User talk:Sdiabhon Sdiamhon

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Hadza and vampires
Hi. Where in the world did you get the idea that Hadza was the closest relative to the language of the vampires in Blindsight? There's nothing about that in the novel. — kwami (talk) 12:20, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

It's in the Notes and References section (after the Acknowledgements) of the back matter, "A Brief Primer on Vampire Biology". "You'll have noticed that Jukka Sarasti, like all reconstructed vampires, sometimes clicked to himself when thinking. This is thought to hail from an ancestral language, which was hardwired into a click-speech mode more than 50,000 years BP. Click-based speech is especially suited to predators stalking prey on savannah grasslands (the clicks mimic the rustling of grasses, allowing communication without spooking quarry)11. The Human language most closely akin to Old Vampire is Hadzane." It references the following footnote, too. Recordings of Hadzane click-based phonemes can be heard at http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/index.html Sdiabhon Sdiamhon (talk) 11:31, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

Yes, I just found that and came back to apologize. The notes weren't in my copy of the novel.

(Though, actually, clicks are of no demonstrable help with hunting, the San/Bushmen use hand gestures rather than speech to communicate while hunting, and Hadza has almost no clicks in its hunting names for animals, which are different than its sitting-around-camp names for animals, many of which do contain clicks.)

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Planck unit and Big Bang
The Big Bang began the universe. But our understanding of the Big Bang did not begin at the first Planck unit. It began last century. The sentence was very awkward originally, and I just wanted to make it simpler, as well as more truthful.

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Arcturus: 4th or 3rd brightest star?
At the beginning of the article on Arcturus, Arcturus is called the 3rd-brightest star in the night sky. However, in the list of brightest stars, Arcturus is 4th, as well as later on in the same Arcturus article.

So why was my change undone? Sdiabhon Sdiamhon (talk) 15:15, 22 October 2022 (UTC)

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hyphens in phrases
The situations are different. "Left to right" (or r to l) is an adverb phrase, whereas "left-to-right" is an adjective derived from the previous phrase. They are used in different contexts. Sdiabhon Sdiamhon (talk) 22:33, 10 July 2023 (UTC)