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 16:32:27 +0200 Message-ID: <86pnpfjuo4.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <09C04C7E-B175-45A5-A4E1-4E5AC14B4B66@gmail.com> <86zhojjw8s.fsf_-_@zoho.eu> <87imv7phda.fsf@ra.horus-it.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="217226"; 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 16:32:54 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 1hIDWX-000uMK-6u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Apr 2019 16:32:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53760 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hIDWW-0007LE-7t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Apr 2019 10:32:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:38069) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hIDWI-0007Kq-0P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Apr 2019 10:32:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hIDWF-00018Q-Rs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Apr 2019 10:32:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=57186 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hIDWE-00016P-E2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Apr 2019 10:32:35 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hIDWC-000tzX-CH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Apr 2019 16:32:32 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:zzF88aDDTaxk8XjiXePA5Tkdue0= 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:120021 Archived-At: Ralph Seichter wrote: > English [...] is convenient right now, > because it is pretty simple, easy to handle > in aging software, and works as a lingua > franca of the IT/software community for the > time being. We might see that shift to > Mandarin, one of the languages > I unfortunately do not yet speak, but > who knows. Answer: I I can tell you with ~99.9% certainty that Mandarin will _never_ be the "lingua franca of the IT/software community"! >> Stop being in denial! > > English (not American, mind you) Did I say "American"? :O I don't think so, but if I did, you're right, of course. I like to jokingly call it "Anglo-American" because of 1) the US contribution to IT technology since at least the 50s (involving not only Americans, mind you :)), and 2) we tend to use American English rather than English English, e.g. here is how it looks in my ~/.Xresources !! colors (bl re gr ye bl ma cy wh) ! normal xterm*color0: #000000 xterm*color1: #FF3232 [...] The textbook term would be "English" or "American English", of course. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573