don't yell at him. it was all on me. if I may translate from German to English to be more precise:
Deer in German is Animal, Deer in English is a particular sort of animal. Dog in German is one of those big things, I forget. Dog in English is that stupid 4 legged thing. Hound in German is a dog, while my stupid idiotic brother-in-law keeps them in a pen all year until Deer season. I only was speaking of instances in languages that go specific to general, and forthbackwards. And more specifically German because we can all name a ton of loan words from many other languages, but very few from German to English, even though we are so very close. I don't know why. And so as not to keep you in suspense, what do you get from Finnish? Yeah. That hot thing. Sauna. But to still bring things back on topic, my initial query was, "Is there anything so inherently better about the English language that makes it more useful for computer languages?" Most kind regards, Lindy ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
