Geo-language
Geo-language
Posted Jul 20, 2017 7:54 UTC (Thu) by oldtomas (guest, #72579)Parent article: Highlights in Fedora 26
I see that as a part of patronizing software (the software knows better than the user), which has the huge danger of developing into a self fulfilling prophecy. I see the potential for dystopia there, honestly.
Problem is, there's a huge industry out there betting their farms into manipulating people's behaviour -- that creates a terrible symbiosis with this kind of "patronizing" software...
Anyway -- glad I'm not alone. Phew :-)
Posted Jul 20, 2017 14:12 UTC (Thu)
by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
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Even in the "home" of the English language, namely England ...
Firstly, in geo-political terms there's no such place ... it's called "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" (so our ISO code of GB/GBR pisses me off for not covering large chunks of the place!)
Even in terms of England, "proper" English is only spoken in the south-eastern bit - in the west they speak "welsh" - in quotes because "welsh" is the anglo-saxon term for the Britons who were here before them so I'm including Cornish and other such languages ...
Scots is not the language of the Scots - they speak Gaelic and their name is derived from the Roman name for Ireland ... Scots the language is the language of the Angles! who live between the Forth and the Tyne.
Basically modern geo-political boundaries bear no resemblance whatsoever to cultural/linguistic boundaries, and as has been said are rubbish for making such decisions. And we can probably blame a lot of the post-1945 political instability on the fact that Westerners seem oblivious to that fact cf all the nice straight-line borders imposed in Africa and the middle east, and the fighting that has gone on since ...
Cheers,
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Wol