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> Has anyone tried turning the language off and on again? Wouldn't do any good. The English language has a venerable codebase, a high turnover development team
by mmcdermott 4y ago
> Has anyone tried turning the language off and on again?
Wouldn't do any good. The English language has a venerable codebase, a high turnover development team and lava flow development all over the place.
Modernization attempts haven't gone well, but more PRs come in by the day.
- cestith 4y agoAt the end of the day, English is less a language in the sense of other languages and more a pluggable framework an empire developed for adopting the vocabulary of other peoples and stuffing them into a loose sort of syntax together.
- Steltek 4y agoI often think of "Worse is better" when teaching my kids reading and writing. In fact, Internet memes in the past 2 decades have dialed this up to 11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better