From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: the English language part 2 Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 06:13:42 +0200 Message-ID: <874l6qhe2x.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <09C04C7E-B175-45A5-A4E1-4E5AC14B4B66@gmail.com> <86zhojjw8s.fsf_-_@zoho.eu> <87imv7phda.fsf@ra.horus-it.com> <86pnpfjuo4.fsf@zoho.eu> <87d0lfpghe.fsf@ra.horus-it.com> <86k1fnjt0f.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="121380"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: mu4e 1.1.0; emacs 27.0.50 Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Ingemar Holmgren , Henk Pelgrom , Kiki Alfredsson , Greger Eriksson To: Emanuel Berg Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 22 06:31:14 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 1hIQbq-000VRg-0J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2019 06:31:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60452 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hIQbp-0006WX-1E for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2019 00:31:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:37573) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hIQbX-0006Ci-8o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2019 00:30:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hIQM9-0004a3-C8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2019 00:15:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:59554) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hIQM9-0004WS-4m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2019 00:15:01 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id B29CBE6657; Mon, 22 Apr 2019 06:14:54 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id xbnf-EMgMj0b; Mon, 22 Apr 2019 06:14:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (jeden09-dwa27.echostar.pl [213.156.109.227]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 51794E65C2; Mon, 22 Apr 2019 06:14:51 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: <86k1fnjt0f.fsf@zoho.eu> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.110.48.8 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:120028 Archived-At: On 2019-04-21, at 17:08, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Ralph Seichter wrote: > >> 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. > > The only way that is a possibility is if NATO > and Russia nuke each other clean of the Earth. JFF, let me mention that Arabic Latin French were at some point the lingua francas of the science world (and I could miss something as well), and none of their respective countries were nuked. (And Poland used to be one of the two main powers in Europe one day, btw., though we used Latin as the language of the elites back then. Good for all that poor souls speaking Germanic languages - Polish (as almost any other Slavic language) is basically one huge tongue-twister for you. :-) ) The US has been in the state of moral and economic decline for a few decades now. (I cannot say which is more morally decadent now, the US or China - apparently China is a terrible authoritarian state, and the US is quite close, at least since Obama presidency, but probably since much earlier.) Economically China might as well win within the next 10 or 20 years. Such processes are slow, but have very significant momentum. So NATO does not have to nuke the US out, the US is currently doing it to itself (although in a slower and less spectacular way). Happy Easter anyway, -- Marcin Borkowski http://mbork.pl