From: Ralph Seichter <abbot@monksofcool.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: the English language part 2
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2019 16:42:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d0lfpghe.fsf@ra.horus-it.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86pnpfjuo4.fsf@zoho.eu>
* 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-21 14:42 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
2019-04-21 14:42 ` Ralph Seichter [this message]
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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