On Wed 16 Feb 2022 at 15:38:22 (-0000), Curt wrote: > On 2022-02-16, <to...@tuxteam.de> <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > > > >> So why not create libraries for Burmese, Laotian and Cambodian (Khmer) la= > > nguages? Why don't we have libburmese, liblaotian and libkhmer and make the= > > m essential dependencies for libpango? > > > > So why not do your research yourself? > > > > ;-) > > Of course, it’s an excellent question. But the problem, you see, when you ask > why something happens, how does a person answer why something happens? For > example, Aunt Minnie is in the hospital. Why? Because she went out, slipped > on > the ice, and broke her hip. That satisfies people. It satisfies, but it > wouldn’t satisfy someone who came from another planet and knew nothing about > why when you break your hip do you go to the hospital. How do you get to the > hospital when the hip is broken? Well, because her husband, seeing that her > hip > was broken, called the hospital up and sent somebody to get her. All that is > understood by people. And when you explain a why, you have to be in some > framework that you allow something to be true. Otherwise, you’re perpetually > asking why. > > https://fs.blog/richard-feynman-on-why-questions/
Tomas's question seems to me more rhetorical than a scientific inquiry. Great video, though. Thanks. Cheers, David.