From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs user manual in Spanish Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2017 11:49:26 +0200 Message-ID: <864lusv8ex.fsf@zoho.com> References: <20170702082424.GA3364@workstation> <86h8yuy7v1.fsf@zoho.com> <5ac97eb4-d897-4c35-b095-e76250398400@default> <8637aexz6l.fsf@zoho.com> <86o9t2wjhe.fsf@zoho.com> <87shiebe96.fsf@wanadoo.es> <77DD6B65-5E66-4182-8433-F6528025C82C@gmail.com> <86h8yuw8qt.fsf@zoho.com> <8760f9mlgl.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> <3E7EC386-0967-4456-B17A-982C6842CD6C@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1499161830 17770 195.159.176.226 (4 Jul 2017 09:50:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2017 09:50:30 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 04 11:50:26 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dSKTM-00048a-Uu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2017 11:50:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39992 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dSKTS-0006N2-9p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2017 05:50:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39836) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dSKSi-0006M0-18 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2017 05:49:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dSKSe-0006o4-SW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2017 05:49:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=56470 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dSKSe-0006nr-Lz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2017 05:49:36 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dSKSV-0001SC-Pj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2017 11:49:27 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 46 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:MYF6eGOlkko34JjOuyQKeqbRlrM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] 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:113689 Archived-At: Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: >>> ... I seem to remember that a few years >>> ago, Japan was considering adopting English >>> as its official language... Talk about >>> silly... >> >> I don't believe that at all - do you have >> a reference? > > Google is your friend. There was a guy of Swedish academia, Rakowsky or something like that, who at his university unit had switched from Swedish to English. That the university was already at that point very internationalized, with English obviously the language used, did not prevent Rakowsky from suggesting all of Sweden switch to English. SVT, the state television, hosted a show with Rakowsky and they also invited Horace Engdahl, who was then head of the foundation who hands out the Nobel Prize in Literature. Engdahl didn't attent the show but submitted a message which, translated to perhaps unidiomatic English, runs I consider Rakowsky's suggestion lunacy of the first degree that does not deserve any serious consideration. Luckily, it is impossible to carry thru, but otherwise it would amount to the first collective suicide committed by any nation in world history. :) Maybe it was something like that when "Japan" considered switching to English as well. Because yes, that sounds very un-Japanese. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573