From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A system for localizing documentation strings Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:54:44 +0200 Message-ID: <85y7h36iuz.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <795F38F4-7253-47DC-97DD-53BED4F0AB97@mx6.tiki.ne.jp> <3109E7EB-E5E2-49D2-988E-C919334945C1@mx6.tiki.ne.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185479707 21335 80.91.229.12 (26 Jul 2007 19:55:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:55:07 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 26 21:55:06 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IE9QM-0000jc-D7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:55:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IE9QL-0004LS-Sc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:55:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IE9QH-0004E7-RZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:54:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IE9QE-0003xx-Ig for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:54:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IE9QE-0003vj-5A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:54:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-02.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.42]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IE9QD-0007Oj-Mh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:54:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-05-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-05-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.17]) by mail-in-02.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 355EB27EC7 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:54:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-06.arcor-online.net (mail-in-06.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.46]) by mail-in-05-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 276572DA969 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:54:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-079-089.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.79.89]) by mail-in-06.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F041435E5B8 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:54:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id E3CAB1C39595; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:54:44 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu\, 26 Jul 2007 22\:34\:05 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.1/3778/Thu Jul 26 19:57:13 2007 on mail-in-06.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:75606 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > Let's face it: for programmers, English is the most close to the > ideal of the universal language. Maybe it would raise the geek image if programming language vocabulary reverted to the old universal Latin language. It worked for Harry Potter, didn't it? And that "old language" is magic is really a universal theme, from Homeric recitors, the Bible, Druids, over Tolkien, Le Guin, whoever... grepo, gripsi, greptum. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum