From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ralph Seichter Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: the English language part 2 Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2019 16:42:21 +0200 Message-ID: <87d0lfpghe.fsf@ra.horus-it.com> References: <09C04C7E-B175-45A5-A4E1-4E5AC14B4B66@gmail.com> <86zhojjw8s.fsf_-_@zoho.eu> <87imv7phda.fsf@ra.horus-it.com> <86pnpfjuo4.fsf@zoho.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="262143"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" 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 16:42:51 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 1hIDgA-00166M-CC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Apr 2019 16:42:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53854 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hIDg9-0000nV-EI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Apr 2019 10:42:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:39300) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hIDfs-0000lq-Fh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Apr 2019 10:42:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hIDfr-0008Ck-LT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Apr 2019 10:42:32 -0400 Original-Received: from ra.horus-it.com ([2a01:4f8:10b:202e::2]:53948) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hIDfq-0008AZ-Qq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Apr 2019 10:42:31 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ra.horus-it.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFCEE48C18A4 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2019 16:42:26 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: at horus-it.com DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=monksofcool.net; s=k1; t=1555857741; bh=pq/g8wJVl0wpUSBW15gZPnfIhCjMHZVL91oNegUe1X0=; h=From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: Content-Type; b=AhOfvboN4gwVoriqpLwyg+NzRKVRQWHw80Hl80iGx3aWLsKZzN/Uz3MgKBBuGt026 txX+6PqP1tWoP/k+s05g1bkavFEeDuTYNNgJ936mZ2OlYNbsSgo+cnBKqSSAx1DE6a 1DYsykHJhFnmvssiCKZY07zYDfj0QfZqekJGDY1ibAFmvtUZxI/kPJJwyrx/HBwZfQ 2tEH1/s7w5aXjncM/9+IKWmtGBeRODcD7b4pGYDgTcGc+gtOCcHCCEmAf/sPFPglAL b/ru6bT8v56VNoNNFB3qRX8opfKIp+/ytQMq+7RTxK//8x0WZ1CCGAwvuyOzdsNGXz l3pi41vWyOjQg== In-Reply-To: <86pnpfjuo4.fsf@zoho.eu> Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2a01:4f8:10b:202e::2 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:120022 Archived-At: * Emanuel Berg: > I can tell you with ~99.9% certainty that Mandarin will _never_ be the > "lingua franca of the IT/software community"! And how do you know that, O Oracle? :-) Never is a long time. Not so long ago, French was the Diplomat's language of choice. Given the sheer number of native Mandarin speakers and China's efforts in computer science (just consider their supercomputing centres), I consider it arrogant to use whe word "never" in your prediction. -Ralph