Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them

On 04/05/2025 03:43, c186282 wrote:

On 5/3/25 10:33 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Sat, 3 May 2025 22:06:57 -0400, c186282 wrote:
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    A couple decades ago, the "French Everything" crusade in that country
    demanded French-only terms for stuff.
    The native French for 'satellite' was, well, like an entire sentence

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German isn't shy about using loan words but they like to stick them
together.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5BcAbMdF18

    Heh ... yea ... I noticed the German fetish for
   creating single LONG LONG words  :-)
 

The main problem with German is that it reifies everything. Its all nouns.
And Germans end up thinking in nouns, making their 'Weltauunschung' very concrete.
Latin languages are more fluid and have more use of adjectives and adverbs.
English is the most compact generally as it offers so may different ways to say the same thing.
The sort of German "Entry forbidden for people-without-technical-knowledge"
Becomes "no user serviceable parts inside"
Latin languages are very fluid and emotional. I mean who syas 'recondite' in Englsish?
And the old Celtic worldview persists in places, like 'Away with the faeries'

fwiw, John Kay was born in East Prussia which is now Kaliningrad Oblast so
mocking German comes naturally.  Russia has the same problem as Germany
did after WWI and the Danzig Corridor; the oblast not connected to the
rest of Russia.

    Vlad plans to fix that. Just a couple of little
   countries in his way .......

Lol.
Poor 0ld Vlad. He has become victim to the problem of induction.
Take Crimea, The Ukraine and the West does nothing. Take a bit of the Donbas, The West does nothing and Ukraine hasn't got the equipment.
Try to take Kyiv and the Ukrainians smash his tanks using hand held weapons and the allegedly second or third largest army in the world is beaten back .
And now Russia is on the edge of defeat, although Putin has to go on. Anything less than victory and he is toast.
The problem of induction? Past experiences are no guarantee of future ones.
Vlad thought under Biden the West would be too lazy to act. Well it nearly was, with countries just donating scrap and obsolescent kit. which was already written off accounting wise.  Then marking it up to full retail value.
But Ukraine had a new president, and now Russia is essentially defeated. It just doesn't know it yet.
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