[OT] The Fall of the British Empire???

[Ralph DiMola]

Most importantly in aviation. Add that to the list below and "here we are". We will be one day be in a single language world. This does not mean that heritages are erased or lost. We still study Latin.

I worked in Japan in the 80's. They were this far away(2 Fingers a hair width apart) of using western representation of katakana because of the computer keyboard/display/printer limitations. In the days of 286/386s It was cumbersome and slow to input kanji. You had to phonically spell it in hiragana or katakana like today but the speed/resolution/lack of standard hiragana, katakana and kanji databases/printers/7 bit communications of these early PCs and modems made kanji a headache. Technology caught up just fast enough to put those type of plans on the trash heap.

Personally it's all I can do to constantly learn new things/languages in IT, learn new music, learn new car technology so I can fix it, fix my refrigerator/furnace/PC and manage my personal life. I just never had the time nor the brain capacity to learn a new language. I don't think that makes me a US snob. My second language is music staff notation.

Ralph DiMola
IT Director
Evergreen Information Services


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From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Craig Newman via use-livecode
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2023 2:41 PM
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Subject: Re: [OT] The Fall of the British Empire???

I did not mean “British” English, just English. And true, the hegemony that the US had and still has on this planet, commerce, popular culture, sheer weight and all that implies, forced everyone else to learn English. The internet is the prime example,

Americans are smug in that we do not need to learn other languages, because everyone else speaks English. I am not sure I am proud of that…

Craig

> On Nov 20, 2023, at 12:59 PM, doc hawk via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> British English was never the *lingua franca*.

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