In Spanish if you drop your cup you say, "See me cayó la taza". A literal word--for-word translation is "The cup fell itself on me". Some people say this is an effort to avoid responsibility.
Frank --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Fri, Aug 7, 2020, 9:01 AM Barry MacKichan <barry.mackic...@mackichan.com> wrote: > Very much so. We hired a grad student a long time ago (he stayed with us > until he retired). He wrote great Pascal programs. He wrote great Pascal > programs in C++, and in JavaScript. The effect of your first programming > language on style, idioms, and your feelings about recursion and > encapsulation. > > —Barry > > On 6 Aug 2020, at 23:24, thompnicks...@gmail.com wrote: > > Nah. He means more than that. Even ordinary languages predispose users > to one kind of discourse or another. I assume that programming languages > do the same. > > > > N > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >
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