www.ru

[keyplyr]

UA: www.ru
Protocol: HTTP/1.1
Robots.txt: No
Host: fornex.org hosting
212.224.113.0 - 212.224.113.255
212.224.113.0
Parent: first-colo.de
212.224.64.0 - 212.224.127.255
212.224.64.0/18

and for those of you who choose to block, easy combine for:
Easynet
212.224.0.0 - 212.224.63.255
212.224.0.0/18
first-colo.de
212.224.64.0 - 212.224.127.255
212.224.64.0/18

Combined: 212.224.0.0/17

[tangor]

You know your eyes are going bad when at first look it appeared to read "WW III" .... Thank goodness it's only another bot! :)

[lucy24]

www.ru

Would you believe the URL resolves? (To a parked domain, but n/m that.) I looked at it and first thought Who would be dumb enough to even think that was a real URL when it's obviously missing a piece? and then curiosity got the better of me. Further exploration tells me you can also go to www dot com.

How can you have a domain named "www"?

[keyplyr]

How can you have a domain named "www"?

Never really thought about it, but now that I have... why wouldn't you be able to? "www" are just three letters. I've seen stranger spelled words.

[blend27]

www... I've seen stranger spelled words.

Anything that has any of the last 3 letters of "English"-"alphabet"( << pun intended) is strange already. W is 2 sounds already.

Take it from a not a native English language humanoid.

[keyplyr]

W is 2 sounds already

You have an impressive economy with syllables. It takes me every bit of 3.

[lucy24]

Huh. I make it six phonemes. (Your grade-school teacher would have insisted it's seven, but that's because of the myth that English syllables require a vowel.)

:: uneasily wondering which letter has to be omitted in order to put "w" into the last three ::

[keyplyr]

If you get 6 or 7 out of "w" then you may need to move to warmer weather.

[lucy24]

Phonemes, not syllables :)

d/u/b/l/j/u
(Your grade-school teacher would claim there's a schwa before the continuant /l/.)

But /w/ is only two phonemes ("sounds") if you've learned English from a non-native speaker with an absolute accent--the kind where you're unable to do anything phonetically that doesn't occur in your native language. Heck, even French recognizes "w" as a single sound, even if they need two graphemes to write it.

:: wandering off to figure out how "www" would be pronounced in Welsh ::

What was this thread about again?

[keyplyr]

I don't receive pheromones through the computer screen, but I hear Google's AI has that in planning phase.

[lucy24]

Here's your analogy: a phoneme, within any one language, is like a note of a particular scale in a particular key, like A minor. All other possible sounds are either mistakes, or variations (whether intentional or otherwise), or may not be heard at all ("Oh, wait, that was the trombone? I thought it was a taxi honking outside!")

[keyplyr]

Next you'll say chords are like morphemes.

BTW - Because of a lack of gigs for Trombone players, I'm convinced they actually are doing the sound of honking taxis.

[lucy24]

Hm, interesting thought. There are "free" chords, which can exist independently, and "bound" chords, which are only allowed to occur as part of a chord progression. Yeah, that works :)