Re: Bootcamp

In article <10277fa$lpkj$1@dont-email.me>,
Simon Clubley  <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:

On 2025-06-09, Dan Cross <cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net> wrote:

In article <1026kum$hpp1$1@dont-email.me>,
Simon Clubley  <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:

On 2025-06-07, Arne Vajh�j <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:

On 6/7/2025 3:24 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Sat, 7 Jun 2025 17:06:31 +1000, Subcommandante XDelta wrote:

... just what went down at Malmo?

 
I think that?s either ?Malm�? or ?Malm�?, depending on which side of the
�resund (or is that �resund?) you?re on ...

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It is �resund in Danish and �resund in Swedish, but it may be
most correct to use Malm� and �resund, because Sweden got the
city from Denmark in 1658 (due to cold weather!!!!), but the
waterway stayed with Denmark (and Denmark collected tax from
ships sailing through until 1857).
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$ set response/mode=good_natured
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Us crazy Europeans and the fact we refuse to restrict ourselves to
using good old 7-bit US ASCII. :-)

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"Us"?  Aren't you in the UK?  :-D :-D :-D

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Not everyone in the UK denies geography and shared cultural values. :-(

And yet....

(Too soon?)
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I've always found this criticism of ASCII kind of weird.  Of
course it's US-centric; it was designed in the US.  The "A"
stands for "American", after all.

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I guess I was being a bit too subtle. :-)
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It was not a comment against the US ASCII character set, but a comment
about how too many Americans expect everyone else in the world to adapt
to them (and to their limited understanding of the rest of the world).

Many do, and that's a shame, but I've found that Europeans tend
to expect that even more so than Americans.  Perhaps an artifact
of the euro-centrism of colonialism, something that Europeans do
not generally have to confront daily.  It's kind of amazing when
one considers that most major problems in the world today can be
traced back to roots in European colonialism.

"Why don't they just speak English ?"
   -- Clueless political person talking about alien contact, Contact (1997)
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A fictional comment that seems to reflect reality, especially these days.

Indeed.

- Dan C.