On 21 nov. 2015, at 01:59, Mathnerd314 <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 7:04 AM, Hajo Möller <[email protected]> wrote: > "Documentation should teach, not tell." > As Rok said, handing somebody who is learning a new language a > dictionary would not help them learn. He said you can’t learn Spanish from just a dictionary. It may help learn of course. > This is wrong. You can do fine with a dictionary and a few months: > http://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/nov/09/learn-language-in-three-months > "When I went online in search of Lingala resources, the only textbook I could > find was a US Foreign Service Institute handbook printed in 1963 – when > central Africa was still a front of the cold war – and a scanned copy of a > 1,109-word Lingala-English dictionary." > > The key here is that he did not have to learn everything at once; he split it > up into many small chunks (vocabulary, in his case) that could be focused on > independently. > > His most obvious failing once he went to Africa was that he hadn't practiced > listening or making complete sentences; some extra hours with a native > brought it to an acceptable level. So... not wrong after all! A "dictionary alone" was not enough, he had to be taught by a native. https://www.xkcd.com/386/ :-) > The applicability of said anecdote to NixOS is left as an exercise for the > reader. > > -- Mathnerd314 > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
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