Infosys asked HR not to hire 'Indian-origin candidates', 'women with children'

Re:Infosys asked HR not to hire 'Indian-origin candidates', ... by maest on Sunday October 09, 2022 @10:48AM (#33141681)

> English is the simplest Latin based language.

It's not a Latin-based language (French, Italian, Spanish etc are Latin-based languages).

It's not clear how you measure simplicity, but, in terms of phonetics, English is quite the nightmare as the link between the spelling and the pronunciation is often determined by the history of the word, rather than by a clear set of phonetical rules.

So, at least by that measure, English is far from being the simplest.

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Re:Infosys asked HR not to hire 'Indian-origin candidates', ... by hulitu on Sunday October 09, 2022 @11:50AM (#33142350)

> It's not clear how you measure simplicity

Compared with other european languages the english grammar is much simpler and the number of words needed to communicate is also not so high.

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Re:Infosys asked HR not to hire 'Indian-origin candidates', ... by levleontiev on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @02:16AM (#33160044)

Compared with German, it's complicated. German has only "Past Perfect" and "Past simple" tenses.

English has at least 4.

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