Re:A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen To You (1999)
by kingofhdds on Thursday November 22, 2018 @07:46PM
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>It is equally unnatural in all languages, therefore the best possible solution.
I don't see what logic connects statements before, and after "therefore", sorry.
Re:A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen To You (1999)
by ncmncm on Friday November 23, 2018 @01:33AM
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Emphasis is on the word "possible". Once you rule out all the impossible solutions, the solitary one that remains is definitively the best.
Re:A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen To You (1999)
by kingofhdds on Saturday November 24, 2018 @07:32AM
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Other solutions do exist, and it certainly means they are possible. There are likely solutions which not yet written in code, but possible anyway.
And, people have become used to it, so for younger people it seems perfectly normal; and everybody who hates it either doesn't use computers, or will die soon enough.
Since it does not actually hasten their death (or deaths -- a fine point), it is the clear winner.