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Re: The ideal Language, or Is the Eternal September over [message #397971] Sat, 15 August 2020 03:44
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Originally posted by: greymaus

On 2020-08-14, Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> wrote:
> On 8/14/2020 9:13 AM, Peter Flass wrote:
>> Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> In article <rh3ndi$87o$1@dont-email.me>,
>>>> Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> >> If your argument is for standardization, I trust you'd be ok with the
>>>> >> common language being Mandarin Chinese? It's the native language of
>>>> >> 12% of the world's population (17% if you include all the various
>>>> >> dialects), as opposed to 5% for English.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Me, I'm too old to learn Chinese, so everybody should learn the
>>>> >> language I already know.
>>>> >
>>>> > I don't think that's going to happen.
>>>> > First I'd want to see an phonetic alphabet come into common usage,
>>>> > but if that's what it takes to lift the curse, so be it.
>>>>
>>>> Don't be ridiculous. One of the great advantages of written Chinese is
>>>> that it is a common language for over a billion people with very
>>>> different spoken languages (as different as French and Portuguese, I
>>>> hear.) A large part of it is also common with Japanese kanji.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, there is a common phonetic alphabet for Mandarin called
>>>> pinyin. That's how you type Chinese into your computer or phone.
>>>
>>> Well, I usually try pretty hard not to be ridiculous but things happen.
>>>
>>> I know about Pinyin.
>>> I just don't think the pictographs have any place in our future common
>>> written language.
>>>
>>
>> Except we seem to be moving that way, with stupid icons and emojis
>>
> And podcasts and videos. I hate it when I google on how to do
> something, and all there are is youtube videos. I can scan text and
> get the gist almost before the youtube video finishes the roll-in
> commercial. (Of course, there are topics that video works way better
> than text, but not 90% of the "how to" ones.
>
> I used to tell people that Windows was the perfect OS for people who
> didn't know how to read.

After I retired from physical work, someone plunked a chainsaw on the
table and said , "Service that, please.", so I did, cleaned out the
gunk, new oil, sharpen chain, reassemble. Only It wouldnt. Youtube
recalled the kickback check, and it was all back together, it happens o
meevery day. Small "Yi" to Youtube.

greymaus
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