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Re:Limit Internet access until your child makes progress on ... by j-pb on Friday October 06, 2017 @05:03PM (#15420473)
Computer science is an amazing field to work in because we all communicate and collaborate in english, it makes large scale global project efforts possible.

I would like to see that hurdle removed from other disciplines.

Same goes for international politics and peace, your neighbour becomes a lot less threatening if you speak the same language.

German is my mother tounge but after living in the netherlands for 4 years, I consider english my primary language, its what I write my grocery lists and diary entries in. I think the world would be a much better place if we all spoke the same language.

Also f* unicode. That unmaintainable mess of a standard. ASCII4ever!

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Re:Limit Internet access until your child makes progress on ... by patrickdavey on Sunday October 08, 2017 @09:45AM (#15428163)
See... I'm a native English speaker, and while a lot of things would be easier if we all spoke the same language, I think the world would be a poorer place because of it. There's so much more to language than just the words - it seems to alter the way you think too.

My partner is Dutch, and I love that there are words like "papegaaiduiker" the word for puffin. Translates as "parrot diver". I think it'd be totally sad if things like that died out. I suspect if our mythical system existed, it would quickly make English the only language about.

With you on ASCII ;)

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