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: 8 Dec 2025 03:12:55 GMT Lines: 13 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> <10h4rle$3obe8$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net zfeYkWR/Fr+YcNtfsAp3BwUDXtwchjPmAK8d4eLEM1IRZPP3Zf Cancel-Lock: sha1:VNkgP8mjBjlwIhOMU7X72ff4fAY= sha256:wGJwKbvK7J/ny9crFL6RRzhoNI/WcxB78ohD1I6WDNE= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:78456 alt.folklore.computers:232439 On Sun, 7 Dec 2025 14:30:22 -0700, Peter Flass wrote: > My high school still teaches it, but it's apparently an elective and not > a requirement now. They used to teach Greek, too. Greek wasn't an option but I sometimes wish I had at least a semester to learn the alphabet. Alternately, people could stop being so erudite and using the Greek character set for well known words. I'm reading a Dostoevsky novel which is salted with the French phrases the intelligentsia liked to throw around in that period. The translator felt his task was translating Russian so when Ivanov Petrushovitch chatters on in French I have no clue.