Le jeudi 27 novembre 2014 14:50:06 UTC+1, Simon King a écrit : > > Hi Volker, > > On 2014-11-27, Volker Braun <vbrau...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: > > But we do communicate in English, so we can't really avoid using > anglosaxon > > organizational concepts. > > I refuse the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Moreover, we do not communicate in > English as native speakers. So, I absolutely see no reason why our > Lingua Franca should influence our mindset or our organisational > structure. >
Alternative : make the majestuous Latin of Leonard Euler the lingua franca of sage- lists/groups. That would give us the added benefit of having grammatically well-built posts much more frequently... (I'd also propose French (but I'm highly biased :-] and that requires non-ASCII characters), German (also needs non-ASCII characters) or (classical) Greek (ditto, plus it's murderously difficult to get it right : in France, old Classicists used to tell that one has to forget greek seven times before getting a grasp of it...). So Latin, which has been proved for a long time to be a serviceable lingua franca for mathematics, would probably be the"least bad" solution if we really wanted to enforce civility through linguistic tools). Hoping (but not really expecting) this helps, -- Emmanuel Charpentier > > Cheers, > Simon > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
