From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: the English language part 2 Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2019 18:16:15 +0200 Message-ID: <86bm0zjpv4.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <09C04C7E-B175-45A5-A4E1-4E5AC14B4B66@gmail.com> <86zhojjw8s.fsf_-_@zoho.eu> <87imv7phda.fsf@ra.horus-it.com> <86pnpfjuo4.fsf@zoho.eu> <1928be0a-cf63-4c7f-b877-dee46968e15d@default> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="145876"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) Cc: Henk Pelgrom , Ingemar Holmgren , Greger Eriksson , Kiki Alfredsson To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 21 18:16:51 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hIF98-000boU-2T for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Apr 2019 18:16:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54833 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hIF97-0007pC-2x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Apr 2019 12:16:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:51881) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hIF8o-0007o8-7D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Apr 2019 12:16:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hIF8n-0008Oc-8Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Apr 2019 12:16:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=43380 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hIF8n-0008NF-1G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Apr 2019 12:16:29 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hIF8k-000bKu-18 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Apr 2019 18:16:26 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:Pfmo4Qe2DU23aBDXxBIDVTj5USQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:120027 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: >> I can tell you with ~99.9% certainty that >> Mandarin will _never_ be the "lingua franca >> of the IT/software community"! > > Could you please write that in Mandarin? Could you, or anyone else, the Chinese included, program Unix and Emacs in Mandarin? If so, can you yank a sample of your/their source, from the Mandarin-Unix and Mandarin-Emacs you are using, as we speak? Listen, it isn't about what is right or wrong, it is about what _is_ and what _isn't_! You guys can all, for nationalistic, political, and even "not being arrogant" reasons, say whatever you want about what will possibly happen in the future. Because fine, I don't know the future either! But I know _the present_ and it sure as hell ain't pointing towards Mandarin replacing English as the language of computing! (The Chinese supercomputers mentioned earlier, how much of their software is written in Mandarin? If it isn't 0%, that'd be news to me, so do tell.) On the contrary, the present points towards the Hispanic world learning English before we know it, and that'll be the end of it! So let's stick to the present and use English, OK? Oh, wait - we all already do! OMG, how horrible! How did that happen?!? Why don't we speak French instead? Just because France is expansionist/colonialist/imperialist nation number 2 or 3 or whatever, and not number 1? Isn't that completely frustrating and unfair? Merde! -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573