Re:Arabic, a great language, has a low profile
by pvaldes on Thursday October 25, 2018 @10:20AM
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> nothing with importance is being produced in Arabic
If we navigate the flamewar this is still an interesting point.
"Essay on the Computation of Casting and Equation" at least was written in arabic. It was long long time ago but its impact is still noticeable.
What are they doing more recently? I can see femtochemistry, improving robots and inventing critical parts of the litium battery for example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_modern_Arab_scientists...
Re:Arabic, a great language, has a low profile
by angersock on Thursday October 25, 2018 @03:35AM
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The discussion has been polite so far and it's not an unfair point.
Earlier in the 20th century, German was the language of engineering. Before that, French. Before that, Latin. Before that, something else. Languages and their significance in different fields wax and wane.
Re:Arabic, a great language, has a low profile
by dang on Thursday October 25, 2018 @04:59AM
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Yes, and things of importance happen in any of them.
Re:Arabic, a great language, has a low profile
by mega_behemoth on Thursday October 25, 2018 @05:14AM
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I do not care about race. I care about the truth.
Having said that, Arabic is not a race, it is a language. Multiple races use Arabic.
Re:Arabic, a great language, has a low profile
by dang on Thursday October 25, 2018 @01:04PM
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That's why I said "some sort of racial (or whatever) flamewar". There's a grey area between commenting on a language and slurring the people who use it, and you stepped into the latter, which is unacceptable here. Please don't do it again.
That crosses into some sort of racial (or whatever) flamewar. Please don't. It leads to destructive dynamics that are just what we're trying to avoid here.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html