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"I tried to learn Chinese and it was super hard! Anyone who can speak Chinese must be smart!"
by gyro_robo 19y ago
"I tried to learn Chinese and it was super hard! Anyone who can speak Chinese must be smart!"
- pg 19y agoExcept no one is a native speaker of a programming language. The more valid comparison might be "Anyone who can speak Latin must be smart," and that is probably not far wrong.
- vlad 19y agoMaybe, anybody who knows how to use a dictionary to translate one word to another is smart. Because if you simply "know" a language, it means nothing unless you quantify some experience behind that simple awareness of the language syntax. A lot of people say they "know", when they mean "know about."
- gyro_robo 19y agoI know about Lisp.
- gyro_robo 19y agoI think present-day Latin speakers have a stronger correlation with bad fashion sense (funny robes and stupid hats) and scandals than with "smarts".