Re: Why emacs have not native language menu

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:

> Jean-Christophe Helary <fusion@mx6.tiki.ne.jp> writes:
>> [...]
>> That is a possibility but obviously there are much more Japanese or
>> French people who use their software now than then.
>
> Yes, applications.
>
>
>> What good is a software package if it can't be used by
>> linguistically challenged people ?
>
> Linguistically challenged people just cannot program.

Interestingly, pretty much the only people I know without computing,
mathematics or science backgrounds that developed admirable mastery
with Emacs or TeX were proficient in the classics.

And if you have read classical Greek, with its 3 modes, 7 tenses, 3
numeri, 3 voices, and its complex grammatical structure that has no
problems spreading some unsuspecting sentence across several pages, a
sentence which, not entirely unlike a delicate spring, to a river of
sense swilling and into a sea expelling itself, from a slow start to a
furious - Odysseus in his ire would have been no less intimidating -
end continously waxing will finally, after a long, but yet not to be
compared to those of the masters who can express sentiments like "you
two should then have started to be a little ashamed of yourself" in a
single word by choosing all the grammatical details appropriately,
climax come to an end which, had you not been carefully nesting and
unnesting the twines of the silkily woven threads of language not
unlike a stack of bee hives or perhaps the playcards of a master,
might have been unexpected or at least no longer fathomable.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum