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Some people learn a new language or learn about a different culture to get some understanding of a different perspective on life. There is very little interest
by dalke 10y ago
Some people learn a new language or learn about a different culture to get some understanding of a different perspective on life.
There is very little interesting or informative about learning diverse unit systems.
Now, history of unit systems is interesting, but that's more like learning an aspect of other cultures than about measurement systems.
- mordant 10y agoI speak two languages in addition to English, and can (mostly) read and write a third. English is far more expressive than the other languages with which I'm familiar.
- dalke 10y agoWhat is your point? Consider two color models. One can be "more expressive", that is, have a large gamut, than the second, but be unable to reproduce all of the colors in the second. Or, certainly Lisp is "more expressive" than APL, and both are Turning computable and thus equivalent, but some trivial constructs in APL require much more Lisp to express. How do you express Japanese honorific speech in English?