People like to take sides. Look at nationalism, look at football. Especially western thinking devides all in good and evil, not in 'more useful for this' or 'better for that'. And somehow, Apple has managed to be a hyped brand for years now - perhaps because it was an underdog?
You might have noted I sometimes post in Dutch, on things that are mainly relevant to my personal life or The Netherlands. But when posting in English, many of my readers comment in Dutch because they think they're writing just to me, not to my other readers.
Oh, and I'm not into multilingualism. If it were up to me, there were three languages: Esperanto, Perl and C++.
It's one thing to write half Dutch half English to a mixed audience, and it's another thing to have an all English site with all English-fluent readers who have no idea what the fuck you're talking about commenting in Tagalog. The whole damn website in English, all the comments in English, and someone posting in Chinese
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Oh, I automatically dismiss cyrillic and asian comments as spam.
Sometimes, I see a French individual thinking French is a world language on the interwebs. Chinese? Why not. It is nonsensical, but the interwebs do not make any sense.
What's wrong with those three languages, apart from the fact I don't speak them?
See? The problem is they're not always spam. It's just that you usually have no idea what they're talking about so the comment might as well be spam. Which is begging the question why the person even bothered to leave a comment in that language if they knew enough of the other to comprehend it enough to leave a relevant comment.
I just don't like Perl, I don't like C++, and I think Esperanto is useless. Just my two cents.
how do you know they're not all spam? Do you take the effort of translating?
My first language after Basic was Perl, because everybody used it, websites used it and irssi used it. I was promised an army knife. PHP was not that popular then and I don't know if AppleScript existed. C++... I don't know a real difference between C++ and C# or any alternative, it seemed the most widely accepted language. Esperanto is useless because no one uses it, because people are creatures of habit and culture. The language is not sexy at all, has no romance and I doubt it could carry poetry. But it's so damn sexy if it comes to logic. It's easy!
Some of them I can understand, and some I translate. They're usually not spam.
But there's a lot more to language than logic, so Esperanto sort of sucks. C++ is vastly different (although influences) C# etc., it's just that out of all the similar languages there are others I'd rather use (e.g. C# and Java over C++). As for Perl, I find myself liking Ruby more and more...and it's also currently the language du jour for so much thanks to rails and all. I don't really have anything /against/ Perl, it's just that right now I think I'd rather choose another language in place of Perl..just at the moment, not sure which one I'd choose because there's so much to consider.
You might have noted I sometimes post in Dutch, on things that are mainly relevant to my personal life or The Netherlands. But when posting in English, many of my readers comment in Dutch because they think they're writing just to me, not to my other readers.
Oh, and I'm not into multilingualism. If it were up to me, there were three languages: Esperanto, Perl and C++.
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Sometimes, I see a French individual thinking French is a world language on the interwebs. Chinese? Why not. It is nonsensical, but the interwebs do not make any sense.
What's wrong with those three languages, apart from the fact I don't speak them?
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I just don't like Perl, I don't like C++, and I think Esperanto is useless. Just my two cents.
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My first language after Basic was Perl, because everybody used it, websites used it and irssi used it. I was promised an army knife. PHP was not that popular then and I don't know if AppleScript existed.
C++... I don't know a real difference between C++ and C# or any alternative, it seemed the most widely accepted language.
Esperanto is useless because no one uses it, because people are creatures of habit and culture. The language is not sexy at all, has no romance and I doubt it could carry poetry. But it's so damn sexy if it comes to logic. It's easy!
So, what are your alternative languages?
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But there's a lot more to language than logic, so Esperanto sort of sucks. C++ is vastly different (although influences) C# etc., it's just that out of all the similar languages there are others I'd rather use (e.g. C# and Java over C++). As for Perl, I find myself liking Ruby more and more...and it's also currently the language du jour for so much thanks to rails and all. I don't really have anything /against/ Perl, it's just that right now I think I'd rather choose another language in place of Perl..just at the moment, not sure which one I'd choose because there's so much to consider.
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