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Hi Kite, easier to speak, but probably harder to decode. Seems you are planning to expand color notation to "color language" now? Please don't misunderstand this as criticism: I like ''siwosu'' more than ''sixty-wosu''. It's just that I feel that the chances I will learn color notation on the fly decrease while the chances I'll love it increase. Would it be possible to write a computer program that tells us the color name for a common ratio? I'd rather written that as PM but you didn't configure to be reachable by Wikimail. (Checkbox ''Allow other users to email me'' in: ''Preferences → User profile'') --[[User:Xenwolf|Xenwolf]] ([[User talk:Xenwolf|talk]]) 09:41, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

: Email configured, thanks for the tip. Yes, colorspeak is sort of a miniature language or conlang. It basically turns ratios and monzos into words. As far as learning it on the fly, there's a 1-page glossary at the bottom of the main color notation page that covers everything. We've tried to make it easy to learn and memorize while also making it concise. ("We" these days is mostly Praveen and I, but I'd be happy to run suggested changes past you too.) There's always tension between these two goals, as your "chances I'll learn it / love it" comment shows. Computer code is very possible. I assume you would want to see a website or app that translates monzos to color names and back? Is that possible to do here on the xenwiki?

: BTW I can't use the visual editor on various xenwiki pages lately. I get "Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server (HTTP 404)". --[[User:TallKite|TallKite]] ([[User talk:TallKite|talk]]) 20:03, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

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 Hi Kite, easier to speak, but probably harder to decode. Seems you are planning to expand color notation to "color language" now? Please don't misunderstand this as criticism: I like ''siwosu'' more than ''sixty-wosu''. It's just that I feel that the chances I will learn color notation on the fly decrease while the chances I'll love it increase. Would it be possible to write a computer program that tells us the color name for a common ratio? I'd rather written that as PM but you didn't configure to be reachable by Wikimail. (Checkbox ''Allow other users to email me'' in: ''Preferences &rarr; User profile'') --[[User:Xenwolf|Xenwolf]] ([[User talk:Xenwolf|talk]]) 09:41, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
+: Email configured, thanks for the tip. Yes, colorspeak is sort of a miniature language or conlang. It basically turns ratios and monzos into words. As far as learning it on the fly, there's a 1-page glossary at the bottom of the main color notation page that covers everything. We've tried to make it easy to learn and memorize while also making it concise. ("We" these days is mostly Praveen and I, but I'd be happy to run suggested changes past you too.) There's always tension between these two goals, as your "chances I'll learn it / love it" comment shows. Computer code is very possible. I assume you would want to see a website or app that translates monzos to color names and back? Is that possible to do here on the xenwiki?
+: BTW I can't use the visual editor on various xenwiki pages lately. I get "Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server (HTTP 404)". --[[User:TallKite|TallKite]] ([[User talk:TallKite|talk]]) 20:03, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
 == I accidentally clicked the rollback button ==