[Fictionary] CAXON ballot (due 2/14) -- Eric wins!

[E Cohen]

> On 2/24/2023 5:48 PM, eLLioTT morEton wrote:
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>> Caxon, n.  A constructed language in which each word ends with a check 
>> letter to prevent misspellings.
>> __Jim

> Lest anyone wonder, those check letters on my comment do form a 
> consistent system of checking for English words (useless though it may 
> be). I actually worked it out in Excel rather than tossing on extra 
> random letters. It's only a checksum, though, not something more 
> sophisticated like a CRC, so it won't, for example, catch "i before e" 
> misspellings.

But do human languages do this kind of? Like, if it's this kind of vowel 
in the first syllable then it has to be this kind of vowel in the next, 
and if they don't match then something has gone wrong?

-- Eric   |   @GoudyBoldItalic   |   post.news/goudybolditalic