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bethposting
@bethposting

they're a collection of sentences designed to have a representative set of english sounds, while also being sensical. they've been used in linguistics and in testing phones and voice over ip. here's some examples:

  1. The birch canoe slid on the smooth planks.
  2. Glue the sheet to the dark blue background.
  3. It's easy to tell the depth of a well.
  4. These days a chicken leg is a rare dish.

belarius
@belarius

Seems like a couple people have independently stumbled onto this shape, but because the faces are not uniform, I don't think it's going to get the Persi Diaconis seal of approval.

Feels like you should be able to do further triangular subdivision to a d24 to get something fair, but the sides are all going to get pretty obtuse at that point. Edit: Nope, I'm an idiot, that would still create two different shapes on the faces in a 2:1 ratio.


mintexists
@mintexists

d(number greater than 72 that works on a die) that u reroll on a >72?


bethposting
@bethposting

here's a way: Roll a d6, take the value from the table below, and roll a d12 and add it to that value

Roll 1AddD12 Range
101 - 12
21213 - 24
32425 - 36
43637 - 48
54849 - 60
66061 - 72

exerian
@exerian

mom said it's illegal to use dice to do maths.


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in reply to @bethposting's post:

my first job in natural language processing was that I was annotating the prosody of spoken English. The process occasionally included reoccurring training sentences, to make sure we remembered how to use some of the rarer labels.

The training sentence that will stick in my head forever is "Oh don't nuzzle me, you marmalade-nose!", spoken very emphatically but with no expectation of a response, probably to a dog

Oh hey thats what i used for voice training ! I wrote a little script for enso that spat them out at random because my housemates started getting a little confused why i was saying the vowels and days of the week and the quick brown fox phrase multiple times an hour sometimes. (and yet they didnt realise that my voice was slowly changing across the entire year, yay for boiling the frog !)