From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!134.222.94.5!npeer.kpnqwest.net!nreader1.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Maintaining Minority Languages ( was Re: A small survey (if you have couple of minutes)) References: <1f4c5c5c.0108252226.330d6cac@posting.google.com> <1f4c5c5c.0108271934.2170ab88@posting.google.com> <3B8C20A6.C36A5912@ne.mediaone.net> <1f4c5c5c.0108301946.a8ae7da@posting.google.com> <3B8FCD31.47AA01D8@forth.com> <1f4c5c5c.0108312055.65591677@posting.google.com> <3208432857653037@naggum.net> <99fb3972.0109021527.1a52884c@posting.google.com> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3208462658937033@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2001 23:37:40 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@Norway.EU.net X-Trace: nreader1.kpnqwest.net 999473860 193.90.205.200 (Mon, 03 Sep 2001 01:37:40 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 01:37:40 MET DST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:15416 comp.lang.forth:11974 * Erik Naggum > If you neither learn it nor know it, what business do you have commenting > on it at all? * Erann Gat > I believe that people have the right to make statements about things even > if they aren't authorities. Fine with me, but you are not arguing against what I said, which was not about "authority", but about learning and knowing a language before you speak about it. Again, you shirk away from what I say to argue for your own arguments in a void. I wonder who you think you are folling. Your comments all turn out to be shallow, prejudiced, and _personal_ experiences, with absolutely no claim to universalizability. An old saying among statisticians is that "from a single data point, you can extrapolate in any direction". You do that. It is, frankly, annoying. ///