Re: [dev] Convert Suckless Projects Documentation to a More Simple Language

2010-06-17 Thread Antoni Grzymala
Kris Maglione dixit (2010-06-17, 15:39): > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 08:28:54PM +0200, Antoni Grzymala wrote: > >Kris Maglione dixit (2010-06-17, 05:57): > > > >>On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:56:21PM +0300, Dmitry Maluka wrote: > >>>On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 05:27:39AM -0400, Kris Maglione wrote: > E

Re: [dev] Convert Suckless Projects Documentation to a More Simple Language

2010-06-17 Thread Kris Maglione
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 08:28:54PM +0200, Antoni Grzymala wrote: Kris Maglione dixit (2010-06-17, 05:57): On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:56:21PM +0300, Dmitry Maluka wrote: >On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 05:27:39AM -0400, Kris Maglione wrote: >>English really isn't much more than bastardized Germanic wit

Re: [dev] Convert Suckless Projects Documentation to a More Simple Language

2010-06-17 Thread pancake
No please. Classic music makes me ultraviolent. - Original message - > Kris Maglione dixit (2010-06-17, 05:57): > > > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:56:21PM +0300, Dmitry Maluka wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 05:27:39AM -0400, Kris Maglione wrote: > > > > English really isn't much more

Re: [dev] Convert Suckless Projects Documentation to a More Simple Language

2010-06-17 Thread Antoni Grzymala
Kris Maglione dixit (2010-06-17, 05:57): > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:56:21PM +0300, Dmitry Maluka wrote: > >On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 05:27:39AM -0400, Kris Maglione wrote: > >>English really isn't much more than bastardized Germanic with quite a > >>lot of words stolen from Norman French, anyway.

Re: [dev] Convert Suckless Projects Documentation to a More Simple Language

2010-06-17 Thread aner . lucero
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 09:34:47AM -0400, Kris Maglione wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 02:03:31PM +0100, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > > > >On 17 Jun 2010, at 11:15, Kris Maglione wrote: > > > >>On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:59:25AM +0200, pancake wrote: > >>>When i said toki pona..i was not joking..

Re: [dev] Convert Suckless Projects Documentation to a More Simple Language

2010-06-17 Thread Kris Maglione
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 02:03:31PM +0100, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: On 17 Jun 2010, at 11:15, Kris Maglione wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:59:25AM +0200, pancake wrote: When i said toki pona..i was not joking.. http://en.tokipona.org/ you can index the dictionary with a byte. It migh

Re: [dev] Convert Suckless Projects Documentation to a More Simple Language

2010-06-17 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 17 Jun 2010, at 11:15, Kris Maglione wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:59:25AM +0200, pancake wrote: When i said toki pona..i was not joking.. http://en.tokipona.org/ you can index the dictionary with a byte. It might be alright as a pidgin, but as someone with pronounced logophilia,

Re: [dev] Convert Suckless Projects Documentation to a More Simple Language

2010-06-17 Thread hiro
Kris is perfectly right, it's obviously satire. So Twain must have seen this coming. On 6/17/10, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > > On 17 Jun 2010, at 10:43, Mate Nagy wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:29:36AM +0200, ⚖ Alexander "Surma" Surma >> wrote: English really isn't much more than ba

Re: [dev] Convert Suckless Projects Documentation to a More Simple Language

2010-06-17 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 17 Jun 2010, at 10:43, Mate Nagy wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:29:36AM +0200, ⚖ Alexander "Surma" Surma wrote: English really isn't much more than bastardized Germanic [...]. A bit like C++ to C, really. You made my day. then i suggest reading this article: http://www.crossmyt.com/

Re: [dev] Convert Suckless Projects Documentation to a More Simple Language

2010-06-17 Thread Kris Maglione
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:15:54AM +0100, Anselm R Garbe wrote: On 17 June 2010 10:43, Mate Nagy wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:29:36AM +0200, ⚖ Alexander "Surma" Surma wrote: > English really isn't much more than bastardized Germanic [...]. A bit like C++ to C, > really. You made my day.

Re: [dev] Convert Suckless Projects Documentation to a More Simple Language

2010-06-17 Thread Anselm R Garbe
2010/6/17 hiro <23h...@googlemail.com>: > Ausm Oehsten? Wenn Anselm sagt er spreche Deutsch, glaubt ihm bloss nicht! Verraeter!!

Re: [dev] Convert Suckless Projects Documentation to a More Simple Language

2010-06-17 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 17 June 2010 10:43, Mate Nagy wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:29:36AM +0200, ⚖ Alexander "Surma" Surma wrote: >> > English really isn't much more than bastardized Germanic [...]. A bit like >> > C++ to C, >> > really. >> You made my day. > then i suggest reading this article: >  http://www

Re: [dev] Convert Suckless Projects Documentation to a More Simple Language

2010-06-17 Thread Kris Maglione
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:59:25AM +0200, pancake wrote: When i said toki pona..i was not joking.. http://en.tokipona.org/ you can index the dictionary with a byte. It might be alright as a pidgin, but as someone with pronounced logophilia, I'd tend find it insufferable. Beyond that, it by

Re: [dev] Convert Suckless Projects Documentation to a More Simple Language

2010-06-17 Thread Mate Nagy
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:59:25AM +0200, pancake wrote: > http://en.tokipona.org/ well this looks really interesting, no joke thanks for the link Mate

Re: [dev] Convert Suckless Projects Documentation to a More Simple Language

2010-06-17 Thread pancake
When i said toki pona..i was not joking.. http://en.tokipona.org/ you can index the dictionary with a byte. On 06/17/10 11:43, Mate Nagy wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:29:36AM +0200, ⚖ Alexander "Surma" Surma wrote: English really isn't much more than bastardized Germanic [...]. A bi

Re: [dev] Convert Suckless Projects Documentation to a More Simple Language

2010-06-17 Thread Kris Maglione
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:56:21PM +0300, Dmitry Maluka wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 05:27:39AM -0400, Kris Maglione wrote: English really isn't much more than bastardized Germanic with quite a lot of words stolen from Norman French, anyway. A bit like C++ to C, really. German is overcomplic

Re: [dev] Convert Suckless Projects Documentation to a More Simple Language

2010-06-17 Thread Dmitry Maluka
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 05:27:39AM -0400, Kris Maglione wrote: > English really isn't much more than bastardized Germanic with quite a > lot of words stolen from Norman French, anyway. A bit like C++ to C, > really. German is overcomplicated too, try Swedish.

Re: [dev] Convert Suckless Projects Documentation to a More Simple Language

2010-06-17 Thread hiro
Ausm Oehsten? Wenn Anselm sagt er spreche Deutsch, glaubt ihm bloss nicht! On 6/17/10, ⚖ Alexander "Surma" Surma wrote: >> Ich denke Deutsch waere die beste Wahl. > Natööörrlich Doitsch!!! /:=| > > -- > Alexander "cussing-makes-my-arguments-even-more-valid" Surma > >

Re: [dev] Convert Suckless Projects Documentation to a More Simple Language

2010-06-17 Thread Mate Nagy
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:29:36AM +0200, ⚖ Alexander "Surma" Surma wrote: > > English really isn't much more than bastardized Germanic [...]. A bit like > > C++ to C, > > really. > You made my day. then i suggest reading this article: http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/awfgrmlg.html Mate

Re: [dev] Convert Suckless Projects Documentation to a More Simple Language

2010-06-17 Thread Surma
> English really isn't much more than bastardized Germanic [...]. A bit like > C++ to C, > really. You made my day.

Re: [dev] Convert Suckless Projects Documentation to a More Simple Language

2010-06-17 Thread Kris Maglione
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 09:17:44AM +0100, Anselm R Garbe wrote: Ich denke Deutsch waere die beste Wahl. Die Sprache ist konsistenter als Englisch und enthaelt weniger Mehrdeutigkeiten. Die Grammatik hebt Nomen hervor, was in allen anderen natuerlichen Sprachen mit mehr als 100 Mio. Sprechern nich

Re: [dev] Convert Suckless Projects Documentation to a More Simple Language

2010-06-17 Thread Surma
> Ich denke Deutsch waere die beste Wahl. Natööörrlich Doitsch!!! /:=| -- Alexander "cussing-makes-my-arguments-even-more-valid" Surma

Re: [dev] Convert Suckless Projects Documentation to a More Simple Language

2010-06-17 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 16 June 2010 22:06, Matthew Bauer wrote: > sarcasm=1 > I suggest converting suckless project documentation to a more simple > language, such as Esperanto. > English does not follow the Unix philosophy or the KISS principles. > The English language is old, bloated, and outdated. Much of the gram

Re: [dev] Convert Suckless Projects Documentation to a More Simple Language

2010-06-17 Thread markus schnalke
[2010-06-16 16:06] Matthew Bauer > > sarcasm=1 Please stop it. Thanks. meillo

Re: [dev] Convert Suckless Projects Documentation to a More Simple Language

2010-06-16 Thread Rob
Galactic Basic, you fools. How the hell do you expect any other language to be be understood by anyone other you and your anime-figurines? You've all got about as much foresight as Jabba the Hutt when he put Leia right next to him with a big-ass chain. Freakin' nerf herders...

Re: [dev] Convert Suckless Projects Documentation to a More Simple Language

2010-06-16 Thread Anders Andersson
I will suggest Japanese because eveRYTHING ABOUHT JAPAN IS BESTOMGOMGPONIESKAWAIII

Re: [dev] Convert Suckless Projects Documentation to a More Simple Language

2010-06-16 Thread Samuel Baldwin
I'm find of the Black Speech myself. It's concise, simple, and speaks with power: Ash nazg durbatulûk... = One ring to rule them all... Brusizg nar salium = I have no life Ghashnum Mor kulat shum lapus = The Black Speech is very "metal" Plus it's related to Elvish so being trilingual will be easy

Re: [dev] Convert Suckless Projects Documentation to a More Simple Language

2010-06-16 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
Klingon. The rules suck less. There are nouns, and there are verbs. All the rest is chumvey. Left-overs, for you smooth-heads. On 16 Jun 2010, at 22:06, Matthew Bauer wrote: sarcasm=1 I suggest converting suckless project documentation to a more simple language, such as Esperanto. English

Re: [dev] Convert Suckless Projects Documentation to a More Simple Language

2010-06-16 Thread pancake
Toki Pona is the only way On Jun 16, 2010, at 11:06 PM, Matthew Bauer wrote: sarcasm=1 I suggest converting suckless project documentation to a more simple language, such as Esperanto. English does not follow the Unix philosophy or the KISS principles. The English language is old, bloated,

Re: [dev] Convert Suckless Projects Documentation to a More Simple Language

2010-06-16 Thread Moritz Wilhelmy
> Esperanto suffers from being a spoken language, and designed for > the laity, no less. I suggest we simply write in the language of > mathematics. Or lisp. The language of mathematics sucks less? You gotta be kidding. it suffers from even more bloat and modification and syntax inconsistencies

Re: [dev] Convert Suckless Projects Documentation to a More Simple Language

2010-06-16 Thread Antoni Grzymala
Kurt H Maier dixit (2010-06-16, 18:02): > Lojban is a decadent bourgeois luxury. Interlingua is the staff of > the proletariat. Interlingua is sweet. I volunteer for proofreading the translated texts. -- [a]

Re: [dev] Convert Suckless Projects Documentation to a More Simple Language

2010-06-16 Thread Kurt H Maier
Lojban is a decadent bourgeois luxury. Interlingua is the staff of the proletariat. -- # Kurt H Maier

Re: [dev] Convert Suckless Projects Documentation to a More Simple Language

2010-06-16 Thread Kris Maglione
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 04:06:50PM -0500, Matthew Bauer wrote: sarcasm=1 I suggest converting suckless project documentation to a more simple language, such as Esperanto. English does not follow the Unix philosophy or the KISS principles. The English language is old, bloated, and outdated. Much

Re: [dev] Convert Suckless Projects Documentation to a More Simple Language

2010-06-16 Thread Jason Ryan
English does not follow the Unix philosophy or the KISS principles. The English language is old, bloated, and outdated. Much of the grammar is more complicated than it needs to be. Surely txtspk would be a better choice, given your concerns? http://jasonwryan.com/

Re: [dev] Convert Suckless Projects Documentation to a More Simple Language

2010-06-16 Thread Niki Yoshiuchi
Esperanto is to Euro-centric and uses ambiguous grammar. We should use Lojban. On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Matthew Bauer wrote: > sarcasm=1 > > I suggest converting suckless project documentation to a more simple > language, such as Esperanto. > English does not follow the Unix philosophy

[dev] Convert Suckless Projects Documentation to a More Simple Language

2010-06-16 Thread Matthew Bauer
sarcasm=1 I suggest converting suckless project documentation to a more simple language, such as Esperanto. English does not follow the Unix philosophy or the KISS principles. The English language is old, bloated, and outdated. Much of the grammar is more complicated than it needs to be. A constr