Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Recent history of vi Date: 7 Dec 2025 18:49:04 GMT Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <10ga6r1$7ph$1@news.misty.com> <10gpatq$jpt$3@news.misty.com> <69334624$0$11430$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <10h175s$2b64m$19@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net reVSlT/DnZ0WDhrfp4eDKAyN/h1kjM3XNJL02BbSN1L/XpJhYe Cancel-Lock: sha1:6xnKCVbhAwZ0/yLUO47ZFsNQbzc= sha256:yFPmwgL6btBNaM4Bdnvzh8S4cvl3/bTAi4ZTO699yEs= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:78408 alt.folklore.computers:232413 On Sun, 7 Dec 2025 16:31:23 +0100, Alexander Schreiber wrote: > That says more about your bubble than the state of the world, to be > honest. Yes, the fraction of "speaks functional English" goes up as one > goes lower in the adult age bracket - partially due to modern online > media, but there are still plenty of people who don't speak any useful > amount of English despite being multilingual (especially in naturally > multilingual corners of the globe, of which there are quite a few). Cultural chauvinism but I've seen posts in some of the subreddits that are not in English. They don't get many replies since few can translate the question. I sometimes wonder if the poster can follow any of the threads and is too shy to attempt English or if they hope for the best. I can understand the former. I can often puzzle out German or Spanish but I wouldn't want to construct a coherent paragraph in either. Semi-apropos I was reading an essay by Herbert Spencer last night. He questioned the British educational system that taught Greek and Latin because that's what 'educated' people learned even though they had limited utility in later life. Quite a few of his observations on 19th century British quirks are relevant today.