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Re: Recent history of vi

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First post2025-11-27 19:55 +0100
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  Re: Recent history of vi Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2025-11-27 19:55 +0100
    Re: Recent history of vi Alexander Schreiber <als@usenet.thangorodrim.de> - 2025-11-28 22:08 +0100
      Re: Recent history of vi Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2025-12-03 13:37 +0100
        Re: Recent history of vi "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-03 13:56 +0100
          Re: Recent history of vi The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-03 13:58 +0000
            Re: Recent history of vi "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-03 15:40 +0100
        Re: Recent history of vi Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2025-12-03 07:39 -0700
          Re: Recent history of vi Andreas Eder <a_eder_muc@web.de> - 2025-12-06 16:46 +0100
          Re: Recent history of vi Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-13 08:28 +0000
          Re: Recent history of vi Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2025-12-15 10:38 +0100
            Re: Recent history of vi antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2025-12-16 02:20 +0000
              Re: Recent history of vi Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-16 02:52 +0000
              Re: Recent history of vi Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-16 11:53 +0000
                Re: Recent history of vi Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-16 17:42 +0000
              Re: Recent history of vi Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2025-12-17 10:39 +0100
            Re: Recent history of vi "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-16 23:34 +0100
              Re: Recent history of vi Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-17 01:49 +0000
        Re: Recent history of vi Diego Garcia <dg@linux.rocks> - 2025-12-03 14:40 +0000
        Re: Recent history of vi Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2025-12-04 07:00 +0000
          Re: Recent history of vi Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-12-05 20:52 +0000
            Re: Recent history of vi Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2025-12-05 15:57 -0700
              Re: Recent history of vi candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-12-08 18:40 +0000
                Re: Recent history of vi Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-12-13 11:42 +0000
              Re: Recent history of vi Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-12-13 11:40 +0000
                Re: Recent history of vi "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2025-12-13 15:58 +0000
            Re: Recent history of vi The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-06 12:22 +0000
              Re: Recent history of vi rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-06 19:51 +0000
                Re: Recent history of vi Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2025-12-06 15:13 -0700
                  Re: polyglot programming, Recent history of vi John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2025-12-06 22:28 +0000
                    Re: polyglot programming, Recent history of vi rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-07 01:39 +0000
                      Re: polyglot programming, Recent history of vi Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-12-07 06:19 +0000
                        Re: polyglot programming, Recent history of vi Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2025-12-06 22:50 -0800
                          Re: polyglot programming, Recent history of vi "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2025-12-07 10:52 +0000
                            Re: polyglot programming, Recent history of vi "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2025-12-22 12:02 +0000
                        Re: polyglot programming, Recent history of vi rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-07 18:34 +0000
                        Re: polyglot programming, Recent history of vi Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-16 00:02 +0000
                          Re: polyglot programming, Recent history of vi rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-16 01:41 +0000
                            Re: polyglot programming, Recent history of vi Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2025-12-16 07:39 -0700
                              Re: polyglot programming, Recent history of vi The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-16 15:57 +0000
                              Re: polyglot programming, Recent history of vi Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-17 07:13 +0000
                    Re: polyglot programming, Recent history of vi Andy Walker <anw@cuboid.co.uk> - 2025-12-07 16:58 +0000
                      Re: polyglot programming, Recent history of vi Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-16 00:00 +0000
                  Re: Recent history of vi Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-12-07 00:35 +0000
                    Re: Recent history of vi "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-07 19:48 +0100
                  Re: Recent history of vi Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2025-12-07 00:38 +0000
                Re: Recent history of vi Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-07 01:31 +0000
                Re: Recent history of vi The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-07 11:18 +0000
                  Re: Recent history of vi rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-07 18:52 +0000
                    Re: more polyglot programming, was Recent history of vi John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2025-12-07 19:39 +0000
                      Re: more polyglot programming, was Recent history of vi The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-07 20:27 +0000
                      Re: more polyglot programming, was Recent history of vi Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2025-12-07 14:31 -0700
                      Re: more polyglot programming, was Recent history of vi rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-08 01:46 +0000
                        Re: more polyglot programming, was Recent history of vi Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2025-12-08 05:53 +0000
                          Re: more polyglot programming, was Recent history of vi Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2025-12-07 22:25 -0800
                          Re: more polyglot programming, was Recent history of vi rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-08 08:34 +0000
                        Re: more polyglot programming, was Recent history of vi The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-08 08:48 +0000
                          Re: more polyglot programming, was Recent history of vi rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-08 23:43 +0000
                      Re: more polyglot programming, was Recent history of vi Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-15 23:56 +0000
              Re: Recent history of vi Alexander Schreiber <als@usenet.thangorodrim.de> - 2025-12-07 16:31 +0100
                Re: Recent history of vi rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-07 18:49 +0000
                  Re: Recent history of vi scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-12-07 19:12 +0000
                    Re: Recent history of vi rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-07 19:44 +0000
                      Re: Recent history of vi Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2025-12-07 12:14 -0800
                      Re: Recent history of vi The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-07 20:26 +0000
                        Re: Recent history of vi rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-08 03:05 +0000
                          Re: Recent history of vi The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-08 08:46 +0000
                            Re: Recent history of vi Alexander Schreiber <als@usenet.thangorodrim.de> - 2025-12-08 16:39 +0100
                            Re: Recent history of vi Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2025-12-08 16:07 -0500
                              Re: Recent history of vi "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-10 13:15 +0100
                                Re: Recent history of vi The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-10 13:43 +0000
                                  Re: Recent history of vi rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-11 02:54 +0000
                                    Re: Recent history of vi The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-11 08:55 +0000
                            Re: Recent history of vi Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-15 00:41 +0000
                      Re: Recent history of vi Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2025-12-07 14:30 -0700
                        Re: Recent history of vi rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-08 03:12 +0000
                    Re: Recent history of vi Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2025-12-07 11:52 -0800
                    Re: Recent history of vi The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-07 20:23 +0000
                      Re: Recent history of vi Alexander Schreiber <als@usenet.thangorodrim.de> - 2025-12-07 22:54 +0100
                        Re: Recent history of vi Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2025-12-07 14:25 -0800
                          Re: Recent history of vi The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-08 08:25 +0000
                          Re: Recent history of vi Alexander Schreiber <als@usenet.thangorodrim.de> - 2025-12-08 16:26 +0100
                            Re: Recent history of vi Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2025-12-08 12:15 -0700
                              Re: Recent history of vi Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2025-12-08 16:13 -0500
                                Re: Recent history of vi "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-10 13:19 +0100
                              Re: Recent history of vi rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-09 00:08 +0000
                            Re: Recent history of vi rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-08 23:58 +0000
                        Greek origins of Christian scriptures [was Re: Recent history of vi] Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2025-12-07 18:17 -0500
                        Re: Recent history of vi Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2025-12-08 01:35 +0000
                          Re: Recent history of vi The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-08 08:34 +0000
                          Re: Recent history of vi "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-08 14:23 +0100
                            Re: Recent history of vi rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-09 01:10 +0000
                              Re: Recent history of vi Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2025-12-09 04:25 +0000
                                Re: Recent history of vi ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2025-12-09 04:47 +0000
                                Re: Recent history of vi "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-10 15:16 +0100
                                  Re: Recent history of vi The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-10 16:59 +0000
                                    Re: Recent history of vi rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-11 02:55 +0000
                                      Re: Recent history of vi Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2025-12-10 19:34 -0800
                                      Re: Recent history of vi drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2025-12-12 16:13 +0000
                                        Re: Recent history of vi "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2025-12-13 15:51 +0000
                                          Re: Recent history of vi Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-12-14 04:57 +0000
                                            Re: Recent history of vi Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2025-12-13 21:21 -0800
                                            Re: Recent history of vi Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-20 00:21 +0000
                                              Re: Recent history of vi rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-20 05:52 +0000
                        Re: Recent history of vi rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-08 02:38 +0000
                        Re: Recent history of vi The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-08 08:21 +0000
                          Re: Recent history of vi Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2025-12-08 07:38 -0700
                            Re: Recent history of vi Niklas Karlsson <nikke.karlsson@gmail.com> - 2025-12-12 06:59 +0000
                              Re: Recent history of vi rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-12 07:35 +0000
                          Re: Recent history of vi Alexander Schreiber <als@usenet.thangorodrim.de> - 2025-12-08 16:35 +0100
                            Re: Recent history of vi "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-10 13:54 +0100
                              Re: Recent history of vi The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-10 13:41 +0000
                                Re: Recent history of vi Alexander Schreiber <als@usenet.thangorodrim.de> - 2025-12-10 23:07 +0100
                                  Re: Recent history of vi The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-11 08:52 +0000
                                    Re: Recent history of vi John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2025-12-11 20:54 +0000
                                      Re: Recent history of vi The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-11 20:57 +0000
                                        Re: linguistic hegemony, was Recent history of vi John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2025-12-12 02:01 +0000
                                          Re: linguistic hegemony, was Recent history of vi rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-12 02:27 +0000
                                          Re: linguistic hegemony, was Recent history of vi "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-12 03:28 +0100
                                          Re: linguistic hegemony, was Recent history of vi Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2025-12-11 21:43 -0800
                                            Re: linguistic hegemony, was Recent history of vi rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-12 07:25 +0000
                                    Re: Recent history of vi Alexander Schreiber <als@usenet.thangorodrim.de> - 2025-12-12 09:57 +0100
                                      EU (was: Re: Recent history of vi "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2025-12-12 09:53 +0000
                                        Re: EU (was: Re: Recent history of vi Alexander Schreiber <als@usenet.thangorodrim.de> - 2025-12-12 11:51 +0100
                                        Re: EU The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-12 11:54 +0000
                                          Re: EU rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-12 19:26 +0000
                                            Re: EU Alexander Schreiber <als@usenet.thangorodrim.de> - 2025-12-13 12:01 +0100
                                              Re: EU Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-20 00:23 +0000
                                            Re: EU The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-15 18:34 +0000
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                                                        Re: EU "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-17 13:27 +0100
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                                              Re: EU Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-12-16 05:54 +0000
                                                Re: EU The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-16 10:25 +0000
                                      Re: Recent history of vi The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-12 11:53 +0000
                                        Re: Recent history of vi Alexander Schreiber <als@usenet.thangorodrim.de> - 2025-12-12 20:27 +0100
                                          Yes,{, Prime} Minister (was: Re: Recent history of vi) Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-12 23:27 +0000
                                          Re: Recent history of vi "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2025-12-13 15:55 +0000
                                            Re: Recent history of vi The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-15 18:38 +0000
                                              Re: Recent history of vi rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-15 22:40 +0000
                                                Re: Recent history of vi Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2025-12-15 15:44 -0800
                                                  Re: Recent history of vi rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-16 01:59 +0000
                                                    Re: Recent history of vi The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-16 10:22 +0000
                                                  Re: Recent history of vi The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-16 10:18 +0000
                                                    Re: Recent history of vi rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-16 20:45 +0000
                                                      Re: Recent history of vi The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-17 10:14 +0000
                                                Re: Recent history of vi The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-16 10:02 +0000
                                                  Re: Recent history of vi rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-16 20:13 +0000
                                                  Re: Recent history of vi Alexander Schreiber <als@usenet.thangorodrim.de> - 2025-12-17 13:59 +0100
                                Re: Recent history of vi Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-17 07:06 +0000
                              Re: Recent history of vi Alexander Schreiber <als@usenet.thangorodrim.de> - 2025-12-10 23:06 +0100
                                Re: Recent history of vi "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-11 19:38 +0100
                      Re: Recent history of vi rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-08 02:03 +0000
                        Re: Recent history of vi The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-08 08:41 +0000
                          Re: Recent history of vi Niklas Karlsson <nikke.karlsson@gmail.com> - 2025-12-12 07:09 +0000
                            Re: Recent history of vi The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-12 11:49 +0000
                Re: Recent history of vi The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-07 20:14 +0000
                  Re: Recent history of vi Alexander Schreiber <als@usenet.thangorodrim.de> - 2025-12-07 22:56 +0100
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            Re: Unicode (was Re: Recent history of vi) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-15 00:32 +0000
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#78917

FromThe Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Date2025-12-12 11:53 +0000
Message-ID<10hgvo5$2r3rh$18@dont-email.me>
In reply to#78888
On 12/12/2025 08:57, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> On 10/12/2025 22:07, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
>>> Well, the alternative would be to declare one language as the officially
>>> binding one and if that is not your language, too bad. Not going to
>>> happen for obvious reasons, though.
>>
>> The alternative would be to not *impose* 'harmonised' legislation on 27
>> different countries with different cultures, economies, geographies and
>> climates.
> 
> Funnily enough, despite all the grumbling, all EU members joined
> voluntarily. 

The UK did not join voluntarily. Our politicians did it on our behalf 
after lying to us about it.
When we were actually given a choice, we left. Or tried to. Our 
politicians are busy trying to reverse all that.


> The EU is build not by conquest, but by individual states
> applying to join the club. So if a state doesn't like that, they are,
> of course, also free to leave.

Not any more.

  > Which is what the UK did. It went amazingly
> well of them, with the world lining up at their door to sign amazing trade
> agreements with the UK, lots of money suddenly flowing into the NHS
> and in general the UK becoming an economic and political powerhouse
> again ... 

Yup. All of that.

> oh wait, that didn't happen, it all went to crap for them, oops.

No, it didnt .

Despite every effort by the EU and indeed the British political class, 
to make sure it did.


-- 
I was brought up to believe that you should never give offence if you 
can avoid it; the new culture tells us you should always take offence if 
you can. There are now experts in the art of taking offence, indeed 
whole academic subjects, such as 'gender studies', devoted to it.

Sir Roger Scruton

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#78950

FromAlexander Schreiber <als@usenet.thangorodrim.de>
Date2025-12-12 20:27 +0100
Message-ID<slrn10jor5n.2ria5.als@mordor.angband.thangorodrim.de>
In reply to#78917
The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 12/12/2025 08:57, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
>> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>> On 10/12/2025 22:07, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
>>>> Well, the alternative would be to declare one language as the officially
>>>> binding one and if that is not your language, too bad. Not going to
>>>> happen for obvious reasons, though.
>>>
>>> The alternative would be to not *impose* 'harmonised' legislation on 27
>>> different countries with different cultures, economies, geographies and
>>> climates.
>> 
>> Funnily enough, despite all the grumbling, all EU members joined
>> voluntarily. 
>
> The UK did not join voluntarily. Our politicians did it on our behalf 
> after lying to us about it.

Please watch the educational documentaries "Yes Minister" and "Yes,
Prime Minister". They include the reasoning why it was critical for
Britain to join the EU.

> When we were actually given a choice, we left.

That "choice" was served with an impressive helping of lies. And one does
get the strong impression that it was meant merely as a tactical political
game and never intended to be executed upon. Then it was. Oops.

> Or tried to. Our 
> politicians are busy trying to reverse all that.

Because even they can see the facts when those are punching them in
the face, yes.

>> The EU is build not by conquest, but by individual states
>> applying to join the club. So if a state doesn't like that, they are,
>> of course, also free to leave.
>
> Not any more.

Still are. Except most are not as fond of shooting their foot as the
UK was.

>  > Which is what the UK did. It went amazingly
>> well of them, with the world lining up at their door to sign amazing trade
>> agreements with the UK, lots of money suddenly flowing into the NHS
>> and in general the UK becoming an economic and political powerhouse
>> again ... 
>
> Yup. All of that.

Of course. Next, India will come begging to be brought back under the
firm hand of the East India Company.

>> oh wait, that didn't happen, it all went to crap for them, oops.
>
> No, it didnt .
>
> Despite every effort by the EU and indeed the British political class, 
> to make sure it did.

CEPR disagrees:
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/brexits-slow-burn-hit-uk-economy

Kind regards.
          Alex.
-- 
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
 looks like work."                                      -- Thomas A. Edison

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#78955 — Yes,{, Prime} Minister (was: Re: Recent history of vi)

FromNuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid>
Date2025-12-12 23:27 +0000
SubjectYes,{, Prime} Minister (was: Re: Recent history of vi)
Message-ID<10hi8dk$3espg$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#78950
On 2025-12-12, Alexander Schreiber wrote:

> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> On 12/12/2025 08:57, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
>>> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>> On 10/12/2025 22:07, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
>>>>> Well, the alternative would be to declare one language as the officially
>>>>> binding one and if that is not your language, too bad. Not going to
>>>>> happen for obvious reasons, though.
>>>>
>>>> The alternative would be to not *impose* 'harmonised' legislation on 27
>>>> different countries with different cultures, economies, geographies and
>>>> climates.
>>> 
>>> Funnily enough, despite all the grumbling, all EU members joined
>>> voluntarily. 
>>
>> The UK did not join voluntarily. Our politicians did it on our behalf 
>> after lying to us about it.
>
> Please watch the educational documentaries "Yes Minister" and "Yes,
> Prime Minister". They include the reasoning why it was critical for
> Britain to join the EU.

And now the person which your current interlocutor would refer to using
the perpendicular pronoun is stuck thinking on the grand pun from The
Bishop's Gambit...

("Long time, no see")

-- 
Nuno Silva

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#79015

From"Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1>
Date2025-12-13 15:55 +0000
Message-ID<20251213155505.b7478400b385595b0885e285@127.0.0.1>
In reply to#78950
On Fri, 12 Dec 2025 20:27:51 +0100
Alexander Schreiber <als@usenet.thangorodrim.de> wrote:

> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> > On 12/12/2025 08:57, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
> >> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> >>> On 10/12/2025 22:07, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
> >>>> Well, the alternative would be to declare one language as the officially
> >>>> binding one and if that is not your language, too bad. Not going to
> >>>> happen for obvious reasons, though.
> >>>
> >>> The alternative would be to not *impose* 'harmonised' legislation on 27
> >>> different countries with different cultures, economies, geographies and
> >>> climates.
> >> 
> >> Funnily enough, despite all the grumbling, all EU members joined
> >> voluntarily. 
> >
> > The UK did not join voluntarily. Our politicians did it on our behalf 
> > after lying to us about it.
> 
> Please watch the educational documentaries "Yes Minister" and "Yes,
> Prime Minister". They include the reasoning why it was critical for
> Britain to join the EU.
> 
> > When we were actually given a choice, we left.
> 
> That "choice" was served with an impressive helping of lies. And one does
> get the strong impression that it was meant merely as a tactical political
> game and never intended to be executed upon. Then it was. Oops.
> 
> > Or tried to. Our 
> > politicians are busy trying to reverse all that.
> 
> Because even they can see the facts when those are punching them in
> the face, yes.
> 
> >> The EU is build not by conquest, but by individual states
> >> applying to join the club. So if a state doesn't like that, they are,
> >> of course, also free to leave.
> >
> > Not any more.
> 
> Still are. Except most are not as fond of shooting their foot as the
> UK was.
> 
> >  > Which is what the UK did. It went amazingly
> >> well of them, with the world lining up at their door to sign amazing trade
> >> agreements with the UK, lots of money suddenly flowing into the NHS
> >> and in general the UK becoming an economic and political powerhouse
> >> again ... 
> >
> > Yup. All of that.
> 
> Of course. Next, India will come begging to be brought back under the
> firm hand of the East India Company.
> 
> >> oh wait, that didn't happen, it all went to crap for them, oops.
> >
> > No, it didnt .
> >
> > Despite every effort by the EU and indeed the British political class, 
> > to make sure it did.
> 
> CEPR disagrees:
> https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/brexits-slow-burn-hit-uk-economy
> 


You are debating with a hardcore "philosopher", good luck with that.

-- 
Bah, and indeed Humbug.

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#79182

FromThe Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Date2025-12-15 18:38 +0000
Message-ID<10hpkiu$22juh$15@dont-email.me>
In reply to#79015
On 13/12/2025 15:55, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Dec 2025 20:27:51 +0100
> Alexander Schreiber <als@usenet.thangorodrim.de> wrote:
> 
>> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>> On 12/12/2025 08:57, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
>>>> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>>> On 10/12/2025 22:07, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
>>>>>> Well, the alternative would be to declare one language as the officially
>>>>>> binding one and if that is not your language, too bad. Not going to
>>>>>> happen for obvious reasons, though.
>>>>>
>>>>> The alternative would be to not *impose* 'harmonised' legislation on 27
>>>>> different countries with different cultures, economies, geographies and
>>>>> climates.
>>>>
>>>> Funnily enough, despite all the grumbling, all EU members joined
>>>> voluntarily.
>>>
>>> The UK did not join voluntarily. Our politicians did it on our behalf
>>> after lying to us about it.
>>
>> Please watch the educational documentaries "Yes Minister" and "Yes,
>> Prime Minister". They include the reasoning why it was critical for
>> Britain to join the EU.
>>
>>> When we were actually given a choice, we left.
>>
>> That "choice" was served with an impressive helping of lies. And one does
>> get the strong impression that it was meant merely as a tactical political
>> game and never intended to be executed upon. Then it was. Oops.
>>
>>> Or tried to. Our
>>> politicians are busy trying to reverse all that.
>>
>> Because even they can see the facts when those are punching them in
>> the face, yes.
>>
>>>> The EU is build not by conquest, but by individual states
>>>> applying to join the club. So if a state doesn't like that, they are,
>>>> of course, also free to leave.
>>>
>>> Not any more.
>>
>> Still are. Except most are not as fond of shooting their foot as the
>> UK was.
>>
>>>   > Which is what the UK did. It went amazingly
>>>> well of them, with the world lining up at their door to sign amazing trade
>>>> agreements with the UK, lots of money suddenly flowing into the NHS
>>>> and in general the UK becoming an economic and political powerhouse
>>>> again ...
>>>
>>> Yup. All of that.
>>
>> Of course. Next, India will come begging to be brought back under the
>> firm hand of the East India Company.
>>
>>>> oh wait, that didn't happen, it all went to crap for them, oops.
>>>
>>> No, it didnt .
>>>
>>> Despite every effort by the EU and indeed the British political class,
>>> to make sure it did.
>>
>> CEPR disagrees:
>> https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/brexits-slow-burn-hit-uk-economy
>>
> 
> 
> You are debating with a hardcore "philosopher", good luck with that.
> 

The site he references is simply one of a number who are paid handsomely 
to do exactly what they did 30+ years ago.

Tell everyone how great the EU is and how fucking stupid we were to leave.

But you only have to look at the EU region's national GDPs to see that 
Britain is doing no worse and in many cases a lot better, than the rest 
of Europe.

Despite the efforts of its current government.


-- 
"The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll 
look exactly the same afterwards."

Billy Connolly

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#79221

Fromrbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Date2025-12-15 22:40 +0000
Message-ID<mqbh34F61eeU4@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#79182
On Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:38:21 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> But you only have to look at the EU region's national GDPs to see that
> Britain is doing no worse and in many cases a lot better, than the rest
> of Europe.

It helps that Germany seems dead set on committing suicide.

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#79237

FromBobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com>
Date2025-12-15 15:44 -0800
Message-ID<10hq6h0$29bpk$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#79221

On 12/15/25 14:40, rbowman wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:38:21 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> 
>> But you only have to look at the EU region's national GDPs to see that
>> Britain is doing no worse and in many cases a lot better, than the rest
>> of Europe.
> 
> It helps that Germany seems dead set on committing suicide.

	What gives you that impression?
	By the way on 60 Minutes last night an impressive story on how Germany is
rearming and helping the rest of Europe to do so.

	Problem is that not many moderns want to be soldiers having adopted
pacifistic ideals as a result of WW II madness.  Still may return to 
conscription
to get the number of trained soldiers up to appropriate. Germany is right in
the way if the Russian Federation or Putin decide to come into Western
Europe.
			
	bliss


	bliss

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#79249

Fromrbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Date2025-12-16 01:59 +0000
Message-ID<mqbsn5F8conU1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#79237
On Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:44:29 -0800, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

> 	What gives you that impression?
> 	By the way on 60 Minutes last night an impressive story on how 
Germany
> 	is
> rearming and helping the rest of Europe to do so.

https://hir.harvard.edu/germanys-energy-crisis-europes-leading-economy-is-
falling-behind/

You and The Natural Philosopher should get a room. All you can see is the 
Ukraine war. 

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-news-automakers-see-worst-profits-
since-2009/live-75158691

You have to scroll down for the article. 

"EY automotive expert Constantin Gall explained: "The global automotive 
industry is in a deep crisis. However, it is currently the German car 
companies that are suffering particularly badly." 

Germany's auto industry is a key pillar of the country's economy. "

Build your industry on cheap gas, trash your nuclear plants, try to move 
to unproven green sources, cut off the gas supply, and rattle your sabers 
with an army that is outmatched? Recipe for success. Then there was the 
plan to fill the country with gastarbeiters that were supposed to go home 
when not needed but didn't.


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#79271

FromThe Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Date2025-12-16 10:22 +0000
Message-ID<10hrbsd$2i9gm$3@dont-email.me>
In reply to#79249
On 16/12/2025 01:59, rbowman wrote:
> "EY automotive expert Constantin Gall explained: "The global automotive
> industry is in a deep crisis. However, it is currently the German car
> companies that are suffering particularly badly."
> 
> Germany's auto industry is a key pillar of the country's economy. "
> 
> Build your industry on cheap gas, trash your nuclear plants, try to move
> to unproven green sources, cut off the gas supply, and rattle your sabers
> with an army that is outmatched? Recipe for success. Then there was the
> plan to fill the country with gastarbeiters that were supposed to go home
> when not needed but didn't.

And all that because Russia paid or blackmailed the top politicians to 
do all of that.

And ran the Green party from Moscow.

The Ukraine war is just another piece of the puzzle, as is MAGA.

Russia, spectacularly crap at war, is the master of lies and propaganda.
It invented 'woke' and it invented 'anti-woke'.



-- 
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to 
rule.
– H. L. Mencken, American journalist, 1880-1956

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#79270

FromThe Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Date2025-12-16 10:18 +0000
Message-ID<10hrbl4$2i9gm$2@dont-email.me>
In reply to#79237
On 15/12/2025 23:44, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
> 
> 
> On 12/15/25 14:40, rbowman wrote:
>> On Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:38:21 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> 
>>> But you only have to look at the EU region's national GDPs to see
>>> that Britain is doing no worse and in many cases a lot better,
>>> than the rest of Europe.
>> 
>> It helps that Germany seems dead set on committing suicide.
> 
> What gives you that impression? By the way on 60 Minutes last night
> an impressive story on how Germany is rearming and helping the rest
> of Europe to do so.
> 
There you go. You saw it on the telly so it must be true!

> Problem is that not many moderns want to be soldiers having adopted 
> pacifistic ideals as a result of WW II madness.  Still may return to
>  conscription to get the number of trained soldiers up to
> appropriate. Germany is right in the way if the Russian Federation or
> Putin decide to come into Western Europe.
> 
Russia wont get that far.

Everything you hear is propaganda, lies and bullshit.

Russia is on its knees.

Otherwise the last thing it would say is 'I am going to invade' It never 
did before.

It thinks Trump has the power to force Ukraine to capitulate.

Zelenskyy is happy to talk Bollocks in Berlin whilst his generals take 
apart the Russia war machine from a safe distance.

But no one believes the talks are  going anywhere.

Except maybe Trump and Putin, but it's no business of Trump's. He just 
wants the big payoff from Putin for his chums and himself. It's all 
about finding an excuse to lift sanctions on Russia so he can get his 
reward in BitCoins.

But he hasn't any cards left. Even Congress is in favour of supporting 
Ukraine, and there is only so far 'emergency presidential powers' can be 
stretched.,

When Ukraine even has access to Russian security cameras you know the 
Russian regime is rotten to the core.

https://twitter.com/i/status/2000598206179352910



-- 
There’s a mighty big difference between good, sound reasons and reasons
that sound good.

Burton Hillis (William Vaughn, American columnist)

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#79315

Fromrbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Date2025-12-16 20:45 +0000
Message-ID<mqdunlFiccvU11@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#79270
On Tue, 16 Dec 2025 10:18:12 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> Russia is on its knees.

How many more Paras are wandering around the Ukraine?  All advisors, I'm 
sure. 

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#79368

FromThe Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Date2025-12-17 10:14 +0000
Message-ID<10htvqr$3dela$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#79315
On 16/12/2025 20:45, rbowman wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2025 10:18:12 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> 
>> Russia is on its knees.
> 
> How many more Paras are wandering around the Ukraine?  All advisors, I'm
> sure.

Who knows? No one is telling.

Ive seen film of guts fighting Russians all speaking in English, with 
London, Joburg, Sydney and New York accents....Mercenaries? *shrug*.. 
very professional.

The Norks are still in Kursk de-mining it with their loyal bodies.


-- 
If I had all the money I've spent on drink...
..I'd spend it on drink.

Sir Henry (at Rawlinson's End)

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#79269

FromThe Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Date2025-12-16 10:02 +0000
Message-ID<10hraoi$2i9gm$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#79221
On 15/12/2025 22:40, rbowman wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:38:21 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> 
>> But you only have to look at the EU region's national GDPs to see that
>> Britain is doing no worse and in many cases a lot better, than the rest
>> of Europe.
> 
> It helps that Germany seems dead set on committing suicide.

Russia owned more leaders than just Trump.
Germany was totally in its thrall


-- 
I was brought up to believe that you should never give offence if you 
can avoid it; the new culture tells us you should always take offence if 
you can. There are now experts in the art of taking offence, indeed 
whole academic subjects, such as 'gender studies', devoted to it.

Sir Roger Scruton

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#79308

Fromrbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Date2025-12-16 20:13 +0000
Message-ID<mqdsr2FiccvU6@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#79269
On Tue, 16 Dec 2025 10:02:58 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On 15/12/2025 22:40, rbowman wrote:
>> On Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:38:21 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> 
>>> But you only have to look at the EU region's national GDPs to see that
>>> Britain is doing no worse and in many cases a lot better, than the
>>> rest of Europe.
>> 
>> It helps that Germany seems dead set on committing suicide.
> 
> Russia owned more leaders than just Trump.
> Germany was totally in its thrall

Mutti Merkel missed the good old days in the GDR.

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#79378

FromAlexander Schreiber <als@usenet.thangorodrim.de>
Date2025-12-17 13:59 +0100
Message-ID<slrn10k5a92.29j0p.als@frodo.angband.thangorodrim.de>
In reply to#79269
The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 15/12/2025 22:40, rbowman wrote:
>> On Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:38:21 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> 
>>> But you only have to look at the EU region's national GDPs to see that
>>> Britain is doing no worse and in many cases a lot better, than the rest
>>> of Europe.
>> 
>> It helps that Germany seems dead set on committing suicide.
>
> Russia owned more leaders than just Trump.
> Germany was totally in its thrall

Gerhard Schröder was called "Gas Gerd" for very good (or rather, from the
PoV of national security, very bad) reasons. He did stay loyal to his
paymaster even after Russia's invasion of Ukraine - so I guess you can
call him a honest politician (since after being bought, the remained
bought)?

Kind regards,
           Alex.
-- 
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
 looks like work."                                      -- Thomas A. Edison

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#79359

FromLawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Date2025-12-17 07:06 +0000
Message-ID<10htkqc$3af0f$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#78696
On Wed, 10 Dec 2025 13:41:38 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> My sister made a very good living out of translating Spanish, Greek
> English, German, Italian and French documents one to another for IIRC
> NATO, but the EU is the same.
> 
> As we say 'Costa Packet'
> 
> All paid for by the good citizens .

There is a saying about not being able to afford doing it correctly, yet 
being able to afford doing it over, isn’t there ... a situation wise 
Governments would like to avoid ...

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#78722

FromAlexander Schreiber <als@usenet.thangorodrim.de>
Date2025-12-10 23:06 +0100
Message-ID<slrn10jjrn8.29mh4.als@mordor.angband.thangorodrim.de>
In reply to#78689
Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
> On 2025-12-08 16:35, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
>> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>> On 07/12/2025 21:54, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
>>>> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>>> On 07/12/2025 19:12, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>>>>>> rbowman <bowman@montana.com> writes:
>>>>>>> On Sun, 7 Dec 2025 16:31:23 +0100, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Latin is useful for several reasons; it helps make sense of english, for starters,
>>>>>> and it certainly helps when subsequently learning latin-derived (Romance) languages.
>>>>>
>>>>> The point about Latin and Greek is that all science mathematics,
>>>>> philosophy and the bible used to be written in it because it was that
>>>>> language of an educated  European.
>>>>
>>>> The bible was not written in Latin because that was the language of an
>>>> educated European, it was written in Latin because that was the language
>>>> the clergy (from the lowest monk to the pope) learned and spoke
>>>
>>> i.e the language of the educated European...
>> 
>> Well, there was a famous book about early artillery and black powder
>> when those technologies were somewhat newish in Europe and which contained
>> texts from many sources. The author only bothered to translate the arabic
>> and chinese sources, because a properly educated officer would of course
>> be able to read german, english, french, spanish, italian, greek, latin
>> and english (and I probably forgot one or two languages in the list).
>
> Wow.

You have to keep in mind that said "properly educated officer" at that
time was a noble, usually from a family both financially well off and
well connected (which, back then, needed way more language skills than
today) so they didn't have to engage in such lowly behaviour as working
for living. They also tended to have access to competent tutors providing
often 1:1 education from an early age and a certain broadness of language
skills was expected to be functional at the various noble/royal courts.

>>>>   and it
>>>> conventiently was a language that most of the people didn't speak, so
>>>> they needed the clergy as "interpreters". One of the reasons why the
>>>> Church was so much after Martin Luther, because he enabled the common
>>>> people (yes, reading was still a limited distribution skill, but reading
>>>> the native language was far, far more common than understanding Latin)
>>>> to read "the word of God" themselves. Rather inconvient for the clergy
>>>> trying to remain gatekeepers ...
>>>>
>>> Bit like the EU today isn't it?
>> 
>> Not at all. Official EU documents are translated into all the official
>> languages of the EU nations by qualified translators so that the legal
>> intent remains preserved. One of the reasons why machine translations
>> between EU languages are so good is that this corpus serves as really
>> good training material for those systems.
>
> What machine translator are they using?

The EU uses human translators, presumably backed by appropriate domain
experts (having two legally binding but disagreeing versions of the same
document obviously won't do). Various companies then used that (public)
document corpus to build/train their machine translators.

Kind regards,
           Alex.
-- 
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
 looks like work."                                      -- Thomas A. Edison

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#78819

From"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Date2025-12-11 19:38 +0100
Message-ID<mlfr0mxi85.ln2@Telcontar.valinor>
In reply to#78722
On 2025-12-10 23:06, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
> Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
>> On 2025-12-08 16:35, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
>>> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>> On 07/12/2025 21:54, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
>>>>> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>> On 07/12/2025 19:12, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>>>>>>> rbowman <bowman@montana.com> writes:
>>>>>>>> On Sun, 7 Dec 2025 16:31:23 +0100, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Latin is useful for several reasons; it helps make sense of english, for starters,
>>>>>>> and it certainly helps when subsequently learning latin-derived (Romance) languages.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The point about Latin and Greek is that all science mathematics,
>>>>>> philosophy and the bible used to be written in it because it was that
>>>>>> language of an educated  European.
>>>>>
>>>>> The bible was not written in Latin because that was the language of an
>>>>> educated European, it was written in Latin because that was the language
>>>>> the clergy (from the lowest monk to the pope) learned and spoke
>>>>
>>>> i.e the language of the educated European...
>>>
>>> Well, there was a famous book about early artillery and black powder
>>> when those technologies were somewhat newish in Europe and which contained
>>> texts from many sources. The author only bothered to translate the arabic
>>> and chinese sources, because a properly educated officer would of course
>>> be able to read german, english, french, spanish, italian, greek, latin
>>> and english (and I probably forgot one or two languages in the list).
>>
>> Wow.
> 
> You have to keep in mind that said "properly educated officer" at that
> time was a noble, usually from a family both financially well off and
> well connected (which, back then, needed way more language skills than
> today) so they didn't have to engage in such lowly behaviour as working
> for living. They also tended to have access to competent tutors providing
> often 1:1 education from an early age and a certain broadness of language
> skills was expected to be functional at the various noble/royal courts.

Still, that's more of an scholar than a person swimming in luxury.

> 
>>>>>    and it
>>>>> conventiently was a language that most of the people didn't speak, so
>>>>> they needed the clergy as "interpreters". One of the reasons why the
>>>>> Church was so much after Martin Luther, because he enabled the common
>>>>> people (yes, reading was still a limited distribution skill, but reading
>>>>> the native language was far, far more common than understanding Latin)
>>>>> to read "the word of God" themselves. Rather inconvient for the clergy
>>>>> trying to remain gatekeepers ...
>>>>>
>>>> Bit like the EU today isn't it?
>>>
>>> Not at all. Official EU documents are translated into all the official
>>> languages of the EU nations by qualified translators so that the legal
>>> intent remains preserved. One of the reasons why machine translations
>>> between EU languages are so good is that this corpus serves as really
>>> good training material for those systems.
>>
>> What machine translator are they using?
> 
> The EU uses human translators, presumably backed by appropriate domain
> experts (having two legally binding but disagreeing versions of the same
> document obviously won't do). Various companies then used that (public)
> document corpus to build/train their machine translators.

I am only aware of DeepL.

> 
> Kind regards,
>             Alex.


-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;

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#78448

Fromrbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Date2025-12-08 02:03 +0000
Message-ID<mpmq0eFm88sU3@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#78429
On Sun, 7 Dec 2025 20:23:45 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> My nephew is completely bi lingual. and I asked him whether he read Kant
> in the German.
> 'No' he said ' the English translations are clearer.'

At least to the English mind. Another philosopher you love to hate, 
Heidegger, questioned if Greek can really be translated. Certainly his 
German can't be translated. 'Standing-reserve'? Sometimes I think I sort 
of get the gist of 'The Question Concerning Technology' but then I wonder 
if I sort of understand what the translator thought he was saying.

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#78477

FromThe Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Date2025-12-08 08:41 +0000
Message-ID<10h630d$r4s$3@dont-email.me>
In reply to#78448
On 08/12/2025 02:03, rbowman wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Dec 2025 20:23:45 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> 
>> My nephew is completely bi lingual. and I asked him whether he read Kant
>> in the German.
>> 'No' he said ' the English translations are clearer.'
> 
> At least to the English mind. 

He is half German born and raised in Germany

>Another philosopher you love to hate,
> Heidegger, questioned if Greek can really be translated. Certainly his
> German can't be translated. 'Standing-reserve'? Sometimes I think I sort
> of get the gist of 'The Question Concerning Technology' but then I wonder
> if I sort of understand what the translator thought he was saying.

Lol. I think I tried Heidegger, but followed Wittgenstein's advice "If 
on reading a book on philosophy, you have not been tempted to throw it 
into the corner without finishing it, you are not a true philosopher"

Or something

Another Nazi like Nietzsche.

-- 
New Socialism consists essentially in being seen to have your heart in 
the right place whilst your head is in the clouds and your hand is in 
someone else's pocket.

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