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I hope not, and I doubt it. I mean, the people behind curl/libcurl and the people saying those things linked in OP are on different planes of existence. It rem

I hope not, and I doubt it. I mean, the people behind curl/libcurl and the people saying those things linked in OP are on different planes of existence. It reminds me of a funny story from my university days (sorry I don't tell it too well); I'm in some electronics theory class, I forget the title, the lecturer is writing some equations on the board as he talks us through them; the guy next to me nudges me and goes, what an idiot, that's not omega; he proceeds to put his hand up like a child, thrusting it repeatedly in the air, so he can share what an idiot this guy is with him and the class; I ask him quietly not to do it, he ignores me, and carries on until he distracts the prof and the class; prof walks over and asks what's up? Guy makes his point, loud enough for everyone to hear; prof smiles, hands him the chalk and sits down. Guy sits there for a minute looking confused so the prof gets back up, takes the chalk back and says loud enough for everyone; "You don't want to teach this lecture? No? Ok. But you DO want to tell a Greek guy how to write Greek? grin" - Dr Ioannis Alexandrou Great lecturer, cool guy, I hope he's doing well.

aleph_minus_one 4y ago
> "You don't want to teach this lecture? No? Ok. But you DO want to tell a Greek guy how to write Greek? grin" - Dr Ioannis Alexandrou A person who knows Greek quite well once told me that I wrote some Greek letters wrongly. From her (linguistic) knowledge perspective about the Greek alphabet, she was surely right, but some Greek letters are very commonly written somewhat differently by mathematicians than by people who know Greek. In this sense: I know quite well how some Greek letters are nearly always written by mathematicians, which can be a little bit different from how they are written by people who know Greek.
- alias_neo 4y ago
  I understand how that can happen. This was as a simple case of, the lecturer had written a lowercase omega, and this guy was ignorant of Greek having a lower-case alphabet full-stop.

aleph_minus_one 4y ago

> "You don't want to teach this lecture? No? Ok. But you DO want to tell a Greek guy how to write Greek? grin" - Dr Ioannis Alexandrou A person who knows Greek quite well once told me that I wrote some Greek letters wrongly. From her (linguistic) knowledge perspective about the Greek alphabet, she was surely right, but some Greek letters are very commonly written somewhat differently by mathematicians than by people who know Greek. In this sense: I know quite well how some Greek letters are nearly always written by mathematicians, which can be a little bit different from how they are written by people who know Greek.

alias_neo 4y ago
I understand how that can happen. This was as a simple case of, the lecturer had written a lowercase omega, and this guy was ignorant of Greek having a lower-case alphabet full-stop.