Re: tlug: kanji or romaji for Japanese? (was: parallel-port IDE)

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> >>>>> "Scott" == Scott Stone <sstone@example.com> writes:
> 
>     Scott> On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Matt Gushee wrote:
> 
>     >> Extending the same logic, I suppose that instead of trying to
>     >> cope with human differences (and, dare I say, growing in the
>     >> process), we should try to eliminate those differences in the
>     >> interest of efficiency. But I'm sure nobody believes that ...
> 
> "Oh, brave new world, that has such people in it!"  (Correct me if
> I've misquoted.)  Maybe not any more.  But Lenin believed it; Mao
> believed it.  Something like that position is (unjustly) attributed to
> Stallman.

Please don't think that I said the above quote - note that those are Matt
Gushee's words, not mine.  From the way Steve quoted it in this mail, I
don't think that's fully clear.

>     Scott> I think that this is what someone once meant by the 'babel'
>     Scott> concept - human languages tend to diverge into more and
>     Scott> more fragmented languages instead of converging on one
>     Scott> language.
> 
> I don't see this.  Definitely so, in programming languages.  But in
> human languages we're converging.  To the extreme displeasure of
> anti-Unicode fanatics and the French Academy, I might add.

I'm not talking about languages WRT computers, I'm talking about languages
in general.  Look at all the different dialects of German spoken in
Germany, and the different dialects of English spoken in America.  Human
language is divergent, I tell you.

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