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
next prev parent 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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