* Chris Jones (Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:22:00 -0400) > On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:07:17PM EDT, Neil Hodgson wrote: > > Sanskrit is mostly written in Devanagari these days which is also > > useful for selling things to people who speak Hindi and other Indian > > languages. > > Is the implication that the principal usefulness of such languages as > Hindi and "other Indian languages" is us selling "things" to them..? I > am not from these climes but all the same, I do find you tone of voice > rather offensive, considering that you are referring to a culture that's > about 3000 years older and 3000 richer than ours and certainly deserves > our respect.
Neil was obviously talking about Devanagari. Please also mind the principal difference between Neil's "also useful" and your "principal useful(ness)". Thorsten -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
