[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tomohiro KUBOTA) wrote on 03.04.01 in
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> At Tue, 03 Apr 2001 11:06:37 +0100,
> Markus Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > Is the following scenario completely inconceivable?
>
> It is as easy as developing a common word for "Morning", "Morgen", and
> so on in European languages, abolishing "legacy" languages such as
> English, German, French, Finnish, Greek, and so on and let all European
> people use the new language. Your scenario will need as much political
> effort as this scinario.
An assertion like this would need quite a lot of support. I notice you
give none.
I might also note that the Fraktur/etc. differences that Europeans have
mostly abolished look, at least to me, *more* diverse than the CJK font
differences - and they didn't need international treaties.
Frankly, I've seen enough iterations of this particular flamewar to feel
perfectly safe asserting that the vast amount of even the Japanese
population just does not see the problem that some vokal Japanese try to
assert.
This feels *a lot* like the gnu.misc.discuss recurring flamewar about GPL
vs. BSD - some few people get heated up far beyond reason, and the rest of
us watches the results in sort of horrible fascination, thinking that
about 99.9% of the flames are completely irrelevant to anyone but the
flamers.
MfG Kai
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