Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 16:19:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, nik@iii.co.uk, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, itojun@itojun.org Subject: Re: internationalization Message-ID: <199806121619.JAA08857@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199806121443.HAA09471@mailgate.cadence.com> from "Duncan Barclay" at Jun 12, 98 03:42:55 pm
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> > > The origins of Kanji as an ideogrammatic writing system owe more to > > > the need for Imperial China to control the availability of persistent > > > information available to Chinese Serfs in support of a feudal society > > > than they do to their information density compared to alphabetic > > > writing systems. > > > > I have absolutely nothing to add to the discussion, I just want to > > hold up the above paragraph as a shining example of why I like these > > mailing lists so much :-) > > I agree, I tend to save more of Terry's articles for the > non-computing content than those of other people (as well as saving > many for the computing content of course)! I don't know if I'm supposed to be flattered or offended... I thought that the information density of Kanji was relevent. ;-). > Terry, how do you manage to keep all this in your head, or are you a > more advanced version of the JKH Tcl script with AltaVista plug in? No one can rival Jordan... he's a much better humorist than I will probably ever be. Some people watch television; I read. A lot. At one point in time, I actually ran out of science fiction books to read at my local Carnegie Free Library (the Weber County Library at the time), and had to start on the history and biography sections. Thankfully, more science fiction arrived before I ran out of biographies. For scale, I personally own around 3500 books which I have read, and very few of them overlap with what was in the library at the time. I think people should read more; if you're going to be antisocial, do it with a book instead of a television. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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