From: Vinzent Hoefler <JeLlyFish.software@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: :-) A Brand-New Language! :-)
Date: 2000/04/04
Date: 2000-04-04T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8ccaab$6ri$1@news08.btx.dtag.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8caclj$8jn$1@news-hrz.uni-duisburg.de
sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de (Georg Bauhaus) wrote:
>As an illustration, over here in Germany a few million kids in
>the north will have to learn "old orthography" rules due to the
>efforts of a small group of propagandists (term justified(*)) to
>not adopt the new rules, adopted recently by everyone else.
Sorry for the OT. But I can't let stand this.
>The new rules were a result of a years
>lasting standardisation effort including representatives from
>Austria, Switzerland, and Germany.
Standards created by a bunch of morons can only lead to crap. At least
the changes must be considered as very inconsequential.
>It is a compromise.
It's bullshit. Simple as that.
F'up2poster
Vinzent.
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Within a computer, natural language is unnatural.
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2000-03-31 0:00 :-) A Brand-New Language! :-) John Herro
2000-04-01 0:00 ` G
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Bryce Bardin
2000-04-02 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-04-02 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-04-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-03 0:00 ` Magnus Larsson
2000-04-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-03 0:00 ` John Herro
2000-04-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-03 0:00 ` Karel Thoenissen
2000-04-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-06 0:00 ` Karel Thoenissen
2000-04-07 0:00 ` pascal.martin
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-24 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
2000-04-24 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-04-02 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
2000-04-02 0:00 ` G
2000-04-02 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-04-02 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-03 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-04-02 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-04-02 0:00 ` David Botton
2000-04-03 0:00 ` Marc A. Criley
2000-04-03 0:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
2000-04-04 0:00 ` Vinzent Hoefler [this message]
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