From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2009-08-09T00:49:45+09:00
Subject: Re: How Come Ruby is Text-Oriented?

On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 11:48 PM, Luc Heinrich<luc@honk-honk.com> wrote:
> On 1 août 09, at 20:46, Ian Hobson wrote:
>
>> I guess this is because the English adopt words freely, while the French
>> consider this act "corruption" of the language.
>
> Wrong. It's the old farts of the "Académie Française" who consider that
> adopting words freely is a "corruption" and that using English words hurts
> the "graphie" of the French language (I kid you not), while the rest of the
> population will happily use whatever sounds the best or the coolest or helps
> making any message the most clear. And since the aforementioned senile
> fucktards are the ones who decide what goes in the French dictionary or not
> they actually have to be forced by the overwhelming popular usage first,
> which takes time. That's why :)
I do not agree, the French have much more of a defense mechanisme (
but you see I pollute the English with French words, something which
has happened for a long time period anyway) than any other language
community I have met before (that is three, German, Italian and
Spanish). Know you might think bad of the Académie Française, I and
most people I know of my age do not. I just recently complained to a
much younger colleague that I never knew how to pronounce email in
French (or club, or rugby or Burt Lancester) and he simply pointed out
that courriel is a beautiful word. I agree.

But I am aware, well aware, that for some folks label all those who
are of a different opinion with nice expressions of which you make
ample use above.

Cheers
Robert

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module Kernel
  alias_method :λ, :lambda
end