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VIA releases open source Xorg driverVIA releases open source Xorg driverPosted Aug 31, 2008 7:51 UTC (Sun) by quotemstr (subscriber, #45331)In reply to: VIA releases open source Xorg driver by laf0rge Parent article: VIA releases open source Xorg driver
It's amazing how often I'm able to understand technical discussions in Indo-European languages I don't know using only cognates and technical terms.
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VIA releases open source Xorg driver Posted Aug 31, 2008 11:40 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
That depends as much as anything on the writing system employed. I have no
hope of understanding anything in Russian or Eastern European languages where the conventional writing system is Cyrillic, because similar though Cyrillic is to the Latin alphabet it's not similar enough to be readable. (Not to me, at least.)
(Of course, if I actually cared about this I suppose I could always learn
VIA releases open source Xorg driver Posted Aug 31, 2008 15:10 UTC (Sun) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]
Test case for your statement: Turkish. Written in a Latin script. Language is completely different from anything European.
VIA releases open source Xorg driver Posted Aug 31, 2008 19:17 UTC (Sun) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link] Test case for your statement: Turkish. Written in a Latin script. Language is completely different from anything European. From anything? Actually Finnish (my native language), Sami, Estonian, Hungarian, Basque, and probably some others I forgot are also European languages (i.e. they are natively spoken in Europe), but as different from the Indo-European languages as Turkish is.
VIA releases open source Xorg driver Posted Sep 1, 2008 0:51 UTC (Mon) by quotemstr (subscriber, #45331) [Link]
That's a good point. I'm not able to understand a word of Greek or Russian without the babelfish's help. But oddly enough, I hardly ever see technical discussions in Greek. And the Russians tend to use English.
VIA releases open source Xorg driver Posted Sep 1, 2008 12:24 UTC (Mon) by liljencrantz (subscriber, #28458) [Link]
Most eastern European/Slavic languages actually use the latin alphabet. (Polish, Czech, Slovak, Lithuanian, et. al)
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