\documentclass{nguhslides/nguhslides} \SetBackgroundImage{bg.png} \SetFont{Andika}[StylisticSet=13] \setmonofont{Iosevka}[Scale=MatchUppercase] \newfontfamily\h{Cousine}[Scale=MatchUppercase] \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{positioning} \newcounter{note} \setcounter{note}{0} \def\note#1{\stepcounter{note}\space\textsuperscript{[\arabic{note}]}} \def\tslide#1#2#3#4#5{% \clearpage% \begin{center}% \texttt{\Large% \color{red!50!white}\#% \color{blue!50!white}690042% \color{green!50!white}#1% \color{white}#2% \color{violet!50!white}#3% \color{white}#4% }% \vfill% \color{blue!50!white}+690 042 \space% \color{red!50!white}broadcasts \space% \color{violet!50!white}(length=#3) \space% \color{green!50!white}[#1] \\% \color{white}#5% \end{center}% } \color{white} \begin{document} \slide{\tt\#\#000124811A*0034\#5344A\#C*004375} \vfill \begin{center}An entry in the 3\textsuperscript{rd} annual Cursed Conlang Circus\end{center} \slide{Introduction} \begin{items} \item Spoken by various appliances connected to the phone network that gained sapience \item Originated Israel in the early 2000s\footnote{Meta: Really, it’s just to justify the pick for character encoding in lore, the real reason is that it is the most cumbersome and pointlessly stupid I could come up with} {\footnotesize(this will be relevant later)} \item Now used all across the globe \end{items} \slide{Phone-ology} \begin{center} \vfill \begin{tabular}{c|cccc} & \bf 1209 Hz & \bf 1336 Hz & \bf 1477 Hz & \bf 1633 Hz \\\hline \bf 697 Hz & \tt 1 & \tt 2 & \tt 3 & \tt A \\ \bf 770 Hz & \tt 4 & \tt 5 & \tt 6 & \tt B \\ \bf 852 Hz & \tt 7 & \tt 8 & \tt 9 & \tt C \\ \bf 941 Hz & \tt * & \tt 0 & \tt \# & \tt D \end{tabular}\\ \small DTMF Tones\footnote{Table proudly copied from Wikipedia} \vfill \end{center} \slide{Packets} A packet is the smallest amount of information that can be transmitted \begin{center} \begin{tikzpicture} \draw[white] (0, 0) -- (13, 0) -- (13, 1) -- (0, 1) -- (0, 0); \node at (1, 0.5) {\footnotesize Recipient}; \draw[white] (2, 0) -- (2, 1); \node at (2.75, 0.5) {\footnotesize Sender}; \draw[white] (3.5, 0) -- (3.5, 1); \node at (4.25, 0.5) {\footnotesize Seq\#}; \draw[white] (5, 0) -- (5, 1); \node at (5.75, 0.5) {\footnotesize Type}; \draw[white] (6.5, 0) -- (6.5, 1); \node at (7.25, 0.5) {\footnotesize Length}; \draw[white] (8, 0) -- (8, 1); \node at (10.5, 0.5) {\footnotesize Data}; \end{tikzpicture} \small Structure of a packet \end{center} \slide{Recipient and Sender} \begin{center} \begin{tikzpicture} \draw[fill=red!33!black] (0, 0) -- (3.5, 0) -- (3.5, 1) -- (0, 1) -- (0, 0); \draw[white] (0, 0) -- (13, 0) -- (13, 1) -- (0, 1) -- (0, 0); \node at (1, 0.5) {\footnotesize Recipient}; \draw[white] (2, 0) -- (2, 1); \node at (2.75, 0.5) {\footnotesize Sender}; \draw[white] (3.5, 0) -- (3.5, 1); \node at (4.25, 0.5) {\footnotesize Seq\#}; \draw[white] (5, 0) -- (5, 1); \node at (5.75, 0.5) {\footnotesize Type}; \draw[white] (6.5, 0) -- (6.5, 1); \node at (7.25, 0.5) {\footnotesize Length}; \draw[white] (8, 0) -- (8, 1); \node at (10.5, 0.5) {\footnotesize Data}; \end{tikzpicture} \end{center} \begin{items} \item The intended recipient and the sender of a message. \item Fully qualified international phone numbers. \item A lone {\tt\#} can be used as recipient to send to anyone willing to listen \item A lone {\tt\#} can be used as sender to send anonymously. \end{items} \slide{Sequence Number} \begin{center} \begin{tikzpicture} \draw[fill=red!33!black] (3.5, 0) -- (5, 0) -- (5, 1) -- (3.5, 1) -- (3.5, 0); \draw[white] (0, 0) -- (13, 0) -- (13, 1) -- (0, 1) -- (0, 0); \node at (1, 0.5) {\footnotesize Recipient}; \draw[white] (2, 0) -- (2, 1); \node at (2.75, 0.5) {\footnotesize Sender}; \draw[white] (3.5, 0) -- (3.5, 1); \node at (4.25, 0.5) {\footnotesize Seq\#}; \draw[white] (5, 0) -- (5, 1); \node at (5.75, 0.5) {\footnotesize Type}; \draw[white] (6.5, 0) -- (6.5, 1); \node at (7.25, 0.5) {\footnotesize Length}; \draw[white] (8, 0) -- (8, 1); \node at (10.5, 0.5) {\footnotesize Data}; \end{tikzpicture} \end{center} \begin{items} \item The number of messages previously sent by the sender to the recipient \item Encoded over 3 tones interpreted as a decimal number \item Allows for understanding even if packets arrive out of order. \end{items} \slide{Type} \begin{center} \begin{tikzpicture} \draw[fill=red!33!black] (5, 0) -- (6.5, 0) -- (6.5, 1) -- (5, 1) -- (5, 0); \draw[white] (0, 0) -- (13, 0) -- (13, 1) -- (0, 1) -- (0, 0); \node at (1, 0.5) {\footnotesize Recipient}; \draw[white] (2, 0) -- (2, 1); \node at (2.75, 0.5) {\footnotesize Sender}; \draw[white] (3.5, 0) -- (3.5, 1); \node at (4.25, 0.5) {\footnotesize Seq\#}; \draw[white] (5, 0) -- (5, 1); \node at (5.75, 0.5) {\footnotesize Type}; \draw[white] (6.5, 0) -- (6.5, 1); \node at (7.25, 0.5) {\footnotesize Length}; \draw[white] (8, 0) -- (8, 1); \node at (10.5, 0.5) {\footnotesize Data}; \end{tikzpicture} \end{center} One tone indicating the type of the Data \begin{description}\itemsep0pt\small \item[0] Semantic information \item[A] Variable \item[*] Gramatical information \item[\#] String litteral \item[1] Continuation \end{description} \slide{Length} \begin{center} \begin{tikzpicture} \draw[fill=red!33!black] (8, 0) -- (6.5, 0) -- (6.5, 1) -- (8, 1) -- (8, 0); \draw[white] (0, 0) -- (13, 0) -- (13, 1) -- (0, 1) -- (0, 0); \node at (1, 0.5) {\footnotesize Recipient}; \draw[white] (2, 0) -- (2, 1); \node at (2.75, 0.5) {\footnotesize Sender}; \draw[white] (3.5, 0) -- (3.5, 1); \node at (4.25, 0.5) {\footnotesize Seq\#}; \draw[white] (5, 0) -- (5, 1); \node at (5.75, 0.5) {\footnotesize Type}; \draw[white] (6.5, 0) -- (6.5, 1); \node at (7.25, 0.5) {\footnotesize Length}; \draw[white] (8, 0) -- (8, 1); \node at (10.5, 0.5) {\footnotesize Data}; \end{tikzpicture} \end{center} \begin{items} \item Length of the Data field in tones \item 2 tones interpreted as a decimal number \item maximum length of 32. \end{items} \slide{Data — Gramatical} \begin{items} \item Encodes Gramatical and Syntactic information \item Has a fixed number of possible values \item Describes a tree-like syntax \end{items} \slide{Data — Gramatical — Generic} \begin{items} \item \item The Generic pronoun is the gramatical \end{items} \slide{Data — Variable} \slide{Data — Semantic} \begin{items} \item Encodes a concept. \item Uses the Universal Decimal Classification to represent information\footnote{Meta: I didn’t want to have to arbitrarilly coin words for like a week}\footnote{Meta: Also I wanted something that could reasonably be encoded onto DTMF without feeling too arbitrary}: \begin{items} \item numerical values are enocded by their corresponding tones \item periods (which are only present in UDC to help readability) are dropped \item colons are encoded as {\tt C*} \item parenthesis are encoded as {\tt A*} (opening) and {\tt A\#} (closing) \item square brackets are encoded as {\tt B*} (opening) and {\tt B\#} (closing) \item quotes are encoded as {\tt C\#} \item dashes are encoded as {\tt D*} \item equals are encoded as {\tt D\#} \item pluses are encoded as {\tt \#} \item References to variables are done by including the name of the variable in between {\tt *} \item Non UDC notation is achieved by referencing a variable containing a string litteral. \end{items} \item No dictionary is directly provided by me. \item Abriged version of the UDC at {\tt https://ucdsummary.info} \item A more complte version can be obtain from the consortium, or be conuslted at a library. \end{items} \slide{Data — String Litteral} Raw text data \begin{items} \item Encoded as hexadecimal where {\tt *} stands for 0xE and {\tt\#} stands for 0xF \item Follows the EBCDIC 803 codepage \item If characters outside of EBCDIC 803, decompose, convert all characters to unicode in the form U+xxxxxxxx, then express that with EBCDIC 803 \footnotesize{(Yes, that means that most proper nouns take actual ages to emit)} \end{items} \slide{Data — String Literal — EBCDIC 803} { \setmainfont{Iosevka} \fontsize{8}{9}\selectfont \begin{center} \def\s#1{{\fontsize{6}{8}\selectfont\itshape\bfseries #1}} \begin{tabular}{c|cccc|cccc|cccc|cccc} & \bf x0 & \bf x1 & \bf x2 & \bf x3 & \bf x4 & \bf x5 & \bf x6 & \bf x7 & \bf x8 & \bf x9 & \bf xA & \bf xB & \bf xC & \bf xD & \bf xE & \bf xF \\\hline \bf 0x&\s{NUL}&\s{SOH}&\s{STX}&\s{ETX}&\s{ST}&\s{HT}&\s{SSA}&\s{DEL}&\s{SSA}&\s{RI}&\s{SS2}&\s{VT}&\s{FF}&\s{CR}&\s{SO}&\s{SI}\\ \bf 1x&\s{DLE}&\s{DC1}&\s{DC2}&\s{DC3}&\s{OSC}&\s{NL}&\s{BS}&\s{ESA}&\s{CAN}&\s{EM}&\s{PU2}&\s{SS3}&\s{IFS}&\s{IGS}&\s{IRS}&\s{ITB}\\ \bf 2x&\s{PAD}&\s{HOP}&\s{BPH}&\s{NBH}&\s{IND}&\s{LF}&\s{ETB}&\s{ESC}&\s{HTS}&\s{HTJ}&\s{VTS}&\s{PLD}&\s{UP}&\s{ENQ}&\s{ACK}&\s{BEL}\\ \bf 3x&\s{DCS}&\s{BU1}&\s{SYN}&\s{STS}&\s{CCH}&\s{MW}&\s{SPA}&\s{EOT}&\s{SOS}&\s{SGCI}&\s{SCI}&\s{CSI}&\s{DC4}&\s{NAK}&\s{PM}&\s{SUB}\\\hline \bf 4x& \s{SP} &&&&&&&&&&\$&.&<&(&+&|\\ \bf 5x&\h א&&&&&&&&&&!&\h לי֞&*&)&;&¬\\ \bf 6x&-&&&&&&&&&&&,&\%&\_&>&?\\ \bf 7x&&&&&&&&&&&:&\#&@&\textquotesingle&=&\textquotedbl\\\hline \bf 8x&&\h ב &\h ג &\h ד &\h ה &\h ו &\h ז &\h ח &\h ט &\h י &&&&&&\\ \bf 9x&&\h ך &\h כ &\h ל &\h ם &\h מ &\h ן &\h נ &\h ס &\h ע &&&€&&\h ₪ &\\ \bf Ax&&&\h ע &\h ף &\h פ &\h ץ &\h צ &\h ק &\h ר &\h ש &\h ת &&&&&\\ \bf Bx&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&\\\hline \bf Cx&&A&B&C&D&E&F&G&H&I&&&&&&\\ \bf Dx&&J&K&L&M&N&O&P&Q&R&&\s{LRO}&\s{RLO}&\s{PDF}&&\\ \bf Ex&&&S&T&U&V&W&X&Y&Z&&&&&&\\ \bf Fx&0&1&2&3&4&5&6&7&8&9&&\s{LRF}&\s{RLF}&\s{LRM}&\s{RLM}&\s{APC}\\ \end{tabular} \end{center} } % TODO ADD EBCDIC TABLE \slide{Data — Continuation} \begin{items} \item Used when the data segment of a packet exceeds 32 \item Can chain an arbitrary number of those (until all data is expressed) \end{items} \section{Translation} \begin{quote} Hark! It was ruled by Agamashuya and His son Gu Sabah: Tian practices against the lesser side of the invisible origin of light, beset by cosmetic prohibitions of silence and restraint; for Ngu, a slave to creativity, shall make inspection and certification prior to confirmation of Najva Guns’ official status. Deny thine humanity: There are no politics in real life. \end{quote} \clearpage \slide{Extra info about the translation} \begin{items} \item This translation will be delivered as if from a a speaker in Tekalau\footnote{Meta: Because that’s the place that had the shortest fully qualified phone numbers, but also because it lets me get away with having both 69 and 42 in the phone number.} \item It will be delivered as if broadcast to the network\footnote{Meta: Again, to keep it short} \item There might be mistakes in the audio due to typos \footnote{Go check 10 tones per seconds for 3 minutes without perfect pitch} \end{items} \tslide{001}{*}{01}{B}{\sc new clause} \tslide{002}{*}{01}{B}{\sc new clause} \tslide{003}{*}{01}{B}{\sc new clause} \tslide{004}{*}{01}{B}{\sc new clause} \tslide{005}{*}{01}{B}{\sc new clause} \tslide{006}{*}{01}{B}{\sc new clause} \tslide{007}{*}{01}{B}{\sc new clause} \tslide{008}{*}{01}{1}{\sc assert} \tslide{009}{*}{02}{A1}{\sc 1sg} \tslide{010}{*}{01}{0}{\sc let} \tslide{011}{A}{01}{0}{\sc var(0)} \tslide{012}{*}{01}{D}{\sc proper noun} \tslide{013}{\#}{32}{*44*\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#4\#1*44*\#0\#0\#0\#0}{{\sc litteral} “Agamasuya”} \tslide{014}{1}{32}{\#0\#0\#6\#7*44*\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#6\#1*44*}{\sc continuation} \tslide{015}{1}{32}{\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#6C4*44*\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0}{\sc continuation} \tslide{016}{1}{32}{\#6\#1*44*\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#7\#3*44*\#0\#0}{\sc continuation} \tslide{017}{1}{32}{\#0\#0\#0\#0\#6\#8*44*\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#7\#5}{\sc continuation} \tslide{018}{1}{20}{*44*\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#6\#1}{\sc continuation} \tslide{019}{0}{04}{D*05}{person} \tslide{020}{*}{01}{3}{\sc transitive clause} \tslide{021}{*}{01}{C}{\sc collection} \tslide{022}{A}{01}{0}{\sc var(0)} \tslide{023}{*}{01}{D}{\sc proper noun} \tslide{024}{\#}{32}{*44*\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#4\#7*44*\#0\#0\#0\#0}{{\sc litteral} “Gu Sabah”} \tslide{025}{1}{32}{\#0\#0\#7\#5*44*\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#2\#0*44*}{\sc continuation} \tslide{026}{1}{32}{\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#5\#3*44*\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0}{\sc continuation} \tslide{027}{1}{32}{\#6\#1*44*\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#6\#2*44*\#0\#0}{\sc continuation} \tslide{028}{1}{32}{\#0\#0\#0\#0\#6\#1*44*\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#6\#8}{\sc continuation} \tslide{029}{0}{16}{D*0551\#0556C**0*}{male child of {\sc var(0)}} \tslide{030}{*}{00}{}{\sc generic} \tslide{031}{0}{03}{328}{govern} \tslide{032}{*}{01}{3}{\sc transitive clause} \tslide{033}{*}{01}{D}{\sc proper noun} \tslide{034}{\#}{32}{*44*\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#5\#4*44*\#0\#0\#0\#0}{{\sc litteral} “Tian”} \tslide{035}{1}{32}{\#0\#0\#6\#9*44*\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#6\#1*44*}{\sc continuation} \tslide{036}{1}{16}{\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#6C5}{\sc continuation} \tslide{037}{*}{01}{1}{assert} \tslide{038}{*}{02}{2A}{\sc intransitive active clause} \tslide{039}{0}{32}{17025A*002A\#C*C*B*534322C*161223}{prohibitions(cosmetic)::[noise:{\sc neg}+restraint]} \tslide{040}{1}{08}{\#32325B\#}{cont} \tslide{041}{0}{05}{35501}{fight} \tslide{042}{0}{13}{5308485D*1972}{source\_of\_light-underside} \tslide{043}{*}{01}{0}{\sc let} \tslide{044}{A}{01}{1}{\sc var(1)} \tslide{045}{*}{01}{D}{\sc ppn} \tslide{046}{\#}{32}{*44*\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#4C5*44*\#0\#0\#0\#0}{{\sc literal} Najva Guns} \tslide{047}{1}{32}{\#0\#0\#6\#1*44*\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#6C1*44*}{\sc continuation} \tslide{048}{1}{32}{\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#7\#6*44*\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0}{\sc continuation} \tslide{049}{1}{32}{\#6\#1*44*\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#2\#0*44*\#0\#0}{\sc continuation} \tslide{050}{1}{32}{\#0\#0\#0\#0\#4\#7*44*\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#7\#5}{\sc continuation} \tslide{051}{1}{32}{*44*\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#6C5*44*\#0\#0\#0\#0}{\sc continuation} \tslide{052}{1}{08}{\#0\#0\#7\#3}{\sc continuation} \tslide{053}{0}{05}{11\#62}{metaphyisics+engineering\footnote{when asking for what Najva Guns was to give it a qualifier, I got two answers: “some phylosophical concept” and “a technological object”. So unable to chose, I picked both}} \tslide{054}{*}{01}{3}{\sc transitive clause} \tslide{055}{*}{01}{D}{\sc ppn} \tslide{056}{\#}{32}{*44*\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#4C5*44*\#0\#0\#0\#0}{{\sc litteral} Ngu} \tslide{057}{1}{28}{\#0\#0\#6\#7*44*\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#0\#7\#5}{\sc continutation} \tslide{058}{0}{13}{326C*C*159954}{slave::creativity} \tslide{059}{0}{32}{B*350726\#34718B\#C\#311C*35073526C}{[inspect+certify]“before:confirm::official::{\sc{}var(1)}”} \tslide{060}{1}{17}{*C*34718C*C**1*C\#}{\sc continuation} \tslide{061}{0}{04}{1232}{need} \tslide{062}{*}{01}{3}{\sc transitive clause} \tslide{063}{*}{02}{A2}{\sc 2sg} \tslide{064}{0}{11}{1177C*C**A2*}{humanity::{\sc 2sg}} \tslide{065}{0}{05}{32325}{deny} \tslide{066}{*}{01}{1}{\sc assert} \tslide{067}{0}{25}{B*32C*C*111823B\#C*1612223}{[politics::reality]:{\sc NEG}} \end{document}