On 11/22/2012 01:15 PM, Roger W. Suhr wrote:
I'm sorry Mr. Gilmore, but I have to correct you here.
A deer (in English) is specifically "Ein Reh" in German.
An animal (in English) is "Ein Tier" in german (referring to the collective
set of creatures that are not human.)
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Roger W Suhr
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Which was exactly the point of the original Lindy post. "Deer" in
English evolved from a change in pronunciation of the Germanic "tier",
but after the passage of time the meaning of "deer" in English no longer
matched the meaning of the the foreign word from which it is derived.
Llindy was never attempting to claim that today's translation of the
words cited matched the original counterparts - quite the opposite.
That was the whole point!
As for using different natural languages for a base for programming
languages, obviously the developer of a programming language is going to
choose one that is within his comfort zone. I have never had an
occasion to use a programming language that was not English-based, but
as long as there were not too many keywords to learn, I feel I could
manage fairly well with one as long as the latin alphabet were still
used and I were allowed to revert to English for symbol names and labels
meaningful to myself. But I doubt if I (or any data entry device I
currently own) could deal effectively with any programming language
which utilized a totally unfamiliar set of glyphs (Chinese, Russian, etc.).
--
Joel C. Ewing, Bentonville, AR [email protected]
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