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From: Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Cc: Henk Pelgrom <henkpelgrom@hotmail.com>,
	Ingemar Holmgren <dag.h@hotmail.se>,
	Greger Eriksson <greger_eriksson@yahoo.com>,
	Kiki Alfredsson <kikialfredsson@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: the English language part 2
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2019 16:32:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86pnpfjuo4.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87imv7phda.fsf@ra.horus-it.com

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




  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-21 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-21  3:56 title-case function Paul W. Rankin
2019-04-21  5:29 ` Emanuel Berg
2019-04-21  6:40   ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-04-21 10:31     ` `if' in Elisp (was: Re: title-case function) Emanuel Berg
2019-04-21 12:34       ` Drew Adams
2019-04-21 14:02         ` Emanuel Berg
2019-04-21  5:57 ` title-case function Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-21  6:10   ` Emanuel Berg
2019-04-21  6:45   ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-04-21  7:20     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-21  5:57 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-04-21 12:45   ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-04-21 12:59     ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-04-21 13:25       ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-04-21 13:58       ` the English language part 2 (was: Re: title-case function) Emanuel Berg
2019-04-21 14:23         ` the English language part 2 Ralph Seichter
2019-04-21 14:32           ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2019-04-21 14:42             ` Ralph Seichter
2019-04-21 15:08               ` Emanuel Berg
2019-04-21 15:21                 ` Ralph Seichter
2019-04-22  4:13                 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-04-22  7:55                   ` Paul W. Rankin
2019-04-22 21:21                     ` Emanuel Berg
2019-04-22 21:31                   ` Emanuel Berg
2019-04-25 22:58                   ` Europe in 1648 (was: Re: the English language part 2) Emanuel Berg
2019-04-26 13:40                     ` Ralph Seichter
2019-04-27 21:16                       ` Emanuel Berg
2019-04-29  3:26                         ` Europe in 1648 Van L
2019-04-21 15:22             ` the English language part 2 Drew Adams
2019-04-21 15:38               ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-04-21 16:16               ` Emanuel Berg
2019-04-21 13:45     ` title-case function Emanuel Berg
2019-04-21 13:37   ` the English language, again (was: Re: title-case function) Emanuel Berg
2019-04-21 13:38   ` Emanuel Berg
2019-04-22 16:41     ` Robert Thorpe
2019-04-22 21:44       ` Emanuel Berg
2019-04-23  2:35         ` Emanuel Berg
2019-04-24 11:56           ` the English language, again Van L

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