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I have a feeling that their EQ will show to be significantly lower. Feel
free to post your IQs and EQs!
free to post your IQs and EQs!
egroups.com> said:That would make C a better language for commercial purposes,
wouldn't it? When I worked as a programmer, the management
attitude was that they didn't want clever code; they wanted
code that other staff could maintain and develop as easily
as its author, especially after he had gone. On that basis,
the lowest-IQ language would be the best of all!
I have a feeling that their EQ will show to be significantly lower. Feel
free to post your IQs and EQs!
osmium said:My theory as to the reason for the popularity is that the island of Great
Britain had a lot of oak forests so the people living there could build big
ships and conquer the world with their navy.
Chris said:I couldn't agree more!
Clever code is usually an oxymoron.
BTW That is why English is the most common language on the planet as a
second language. It is easier to teach basic English that can be
understood than any other language.
William Ahern said:Citations? No anecdotes, please.
Citations? No anecdotes, please.
jacob navia said:Le 29/03/11 21:57, William Ahern a écrit :
Forming the past of a verb?
Just add "ed" and learn the few irregulars. No complicated rules.
No distinction between the familiar "you" and the honored person "you"
like Spanish or French.
Concise language. A text in English is 30-40% smaller than the same text
in French or other Latin languages.
The universal "The": you just say "The table" and do not have to worry
if the table is a female/male/no sex/ "thing" like in other languages
like Spanish.
Reading English is easy, and understanding the basics is easier to
learn than other languages.
Apparently it was in WW2 the British needed to teach pilots from many
nationalities (ie from all over the empire as was and other occupied
countries in Europe) to fly and it was found that Basic English could be
taught faster than anything else.
Not idea where you would find the citation on the Internet. When I read
about it the information was in a book. Remember those?
James Kuyper said:Yes, and I also remember when providing a citation didn't mean giving a
URL, it meant identifying the book, and preferably the specific
location within the book, where something was discussed. Can you
provide such an old-fashioned citation?
jacob navia said:Le 29/03/11 21:57, William Ahern a écrit :
Forming the past of a verb?
Just add "ed" and learn the few irregulars. No complicated rules.
No distinction between the familiar "you" and the honored person "you"
like Spanish or French.
Concise language. A text in English is 30-40% smaller than the same text
in French or other Latin languages.
The universal "The": you just say "The table" and do not have to worry
if the table is a female/male/no sex/ "thing" like in other languages
like Spanish.
Reading English is easy, and understanding the basics is easier to learn
than other languages.
Kenneth Brody said:Which sounds to me like native English speakers are smarter than native
speakers of other languages, if it's true that they are not capable of
such understanding.
I think one of the simplest, and most orthogonal languages is supposed
to be Ido. The trouble is there are only a couple of thousand speakers
in the world.
When I was taking my First Class Radio Telephone license exams you had
to have memorized the ITU phonetic alphabet and demonstrate
proficiency. The letters were all English, "Alpha, Bravo, Charlie,...
but the numerals were all Spanish-French-German with English as cited,
you guessed it, in Wikipedia today:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICAO_spelling_alphabet#Digits
Geoff wrote:
Where is the German part in this?
Bye, Jojo
Geoff said:Oktoeight.
Neither "Okto" nor "Eight" is German.
"Acht" is.
Geoff said:Tell that to the ITU.
Okto is not in any language but they wrote it
that way. The derivation is from the German acht.
Why do you insist on belaboring this point?
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