Monthly Archives: April 2026

stop helping me

Posted on Thursday, 2026 April 30 by Anton

For many years now I have maintained a long list of bookmarks to comic strips and other serials. Because I like to read earliest first, rather than follow any one title through its whole archive, I named the bookmarks with … Continue reading →

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increasing harmony

Posted on Thursday, 2026 April 30 by Anton

In 1987 I conceived a theoretical improvement on the quarter-comma meantone scale: the generators are 2−5/4 31/4 57/16 (a ‘tone’, 194.501 cents) and 27/2 3−1/2 5−9/8 (a ‘semitone’, 114.420 cents). I previously showed a guitar concept fretted accordingly; see that … Continue reading →

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Novial

Posted on Thursday, 2026 April 02 by Anton

I recently reread Otto Jespersen’s An International Language (1928) which presents Novial, a new international auxiliary language. (Jespersen had previously taken part in the development of Ido from Esperanto.) I did not love it quite as much as I did … Continue reading →

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