On Sep 14, 9:11 am, Processor-Dev1l <processor.de...@gmail.com> wrote: (snip)
> Well, I am from one of the non-English speaking countries (Czech > Republic). We were always messed up with windows-1250 or iso-8859-2. > Unicode is really great thing for us and for our developers. Yes you need the crutch of Unicode because no all-encompassing- language exists today. Because of this we need interpretors at accident scenes, and subtitles on movies. Public Warning Systems must be delayed due to repeating the same information in different languages. And the worst part of all of this is the human instinct to fear that which is different. Yes, multi-languages contribute to racism and classism although are not the only cause. What moronicity is this when a self-aware species has evolved for as long as we and yet, has not perfected universal communication, sad, very sad! What would an advanced civilization think if they dropped in for a spot of tea? > About the "western" technology made in China and Taiwan... do you > really think US are so modern? I can only recommend you to visit > Japan :). The US is nearing the end of it's global reign and superpower status. Is that a good or bad thing? Only time shall tell! Doesn't matter really because some other power will step in and be the hated one, it's very lonely at the top -- i myself know this fact all to well ;-) > I also think 26 letters are really limited and English is one of the > most limited languages ever. It has too strict syntax. Yeah, it is > easy to learn, but not so cool to hear every day. So how many letters do we need? 50, 100, 1000? Simplisticity is elegance, that is why Python is so beautiful! Yes, English sucks eggs and if we do adopt it as universal language, it should get an enema for sure. But i am all for scraping the English language all together and creating something completely new. > Btw how many foreign languages do you speak? I guess you judge intelligence from memorization of redundant facts? Some people believe this, however i don't. I have gb's and gb's on my hard drive for storing redundant facts. I use my mind for dreaming, reasoning, contemplating, exploring, etc, not as a refuse bin! As i said before language is nothing more than a utility, a way to communicate with others. You can romanticize it all you want but at the end of the day it is nothing more than what it is. People who romanticize language typically like Shakespeare and such. I have no interest in flower sniffing pansies from days gone by. My interest are science, technology, and the advancement of human intelligence. I leave Saturday morning cartoons for children. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list