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Don’t miss this: In my opinion, the greatest invention of humankind is the language, and the greatest error was inventing more than one. The language barrier i

Don’t miss this: In my opinion, the greatest invention of humankind is the language, and the greatest error was inventing more than one. The language barrier is the ultimate obstacle to inclusiveness, and therefore linguistic diversity is a problem that needs to be fixed. We all have the right to be taught exactly one language that gives full access to the whole human culture and allows each of us to communicate with everybody else. Equal rights can't be achieved without equal language. Forcing someone to learn a second language in order to access knowledge is wasteful and ineffective: twice as many words need to be memorized and most people will never be so proficient in the second language as they are in their native language. Language is a tool, not an end in itself. I mean… wowza. I can see some sense in wanting to use a “safe”, well-understood character set. It’s clear though there is a little detachment from reality here, to put it gently.

anaisbetts 5y ago
> It’s clear though there is a little detachment from reality here, to put it gently. Sounds like a perfect fit for the GNU organization
lolc 5y ago
Unicode?! YAGNI! Advocating for a universal language (that must presumably be written in Latin letters) is an entertaining way to round off the manual to one's editor.
- alexvoda 5y ago
  From the documentation: > The lack of a common language is the most divisive border. The first step towards mutual comprehension is a common language. The first step towards a common language is a common alphabet.
IiydAbITMvJkqKf 5y ago
I genuinely can't tell if this is an April Fool's joke that the gnu project forgot to take down, or a serious project. I use non-iso8859 characters on a regular basis, so this editor is completely useless to me. >We all have the right to be taught exactly one language that gives full access to the whole human culture and allows each of us to communicate with everybody else. This makes even the most deranged conspiracy theorist sound lucid. Edit: tried downloading it; the source tarball is compressed with lzip (instead of the more common gz/bzp2/xz) formats. Lzip is not installed by default on my machine, unlike literally every other decompressor. This whole thing seems like an act of defiance purely for the sake of defiance.

anaisbetts 5y ago

> It’s clear though there is a little detachment from reality here, to put it gently. Sounds like a perfect fit for the GNU organization

lolc 5y ago

Unicode?! YAGNI! Advocating for a universal language (that must presumably be written in Latin letters) is an entertaining way to round off the manual to one's editor.

alexvoda 5y ago
From the documentation: > The lack of a common language is the most divisive border. The first step towards mutual comprehension is a common language. The first step towards a common language is a common alphabet.

IiydAbITMvJkqKf 5y ago

I genuinely can't tell if this is an April Fool's joke that the gnu project forgot to take down, or a serious project. I use non-iso8859 characters on a regular basis, so this editor is completely useless to me. >We all have the right to be taught exactly one language that gives full access to the whole human culture and allows each of us to communicate with everybody else. This makes even the most deranged conspiracy theorist sound lucid. Edit: tried downloading it; the source tarball is compressed with lzip (instead of the more common gz/bzp2/xz) formats. Lzip is not installed by default on my machine, unlike literally every other decompressor. This whole thing seems like an act of defiance purely for the sake of defiance.