m.w.chang wrote: > I only knew Latin is an IMPORTANT language in biology and medicine (and > I was a Biology student). I believe any further study into the field of > western medicine requires a good command of Latin. And be a real good > drug makers, you need to learn chinese as well. > > >>Latin is one language I read fluently and I have no such memory. There >>is a Latin dictionary on the Web (actually more than one) and it fails > >
Has anybody ever thought about a latin localisation/distro? The advandages would be evident: - The latin alphabet has only about 22 characters, just uppercase, no numerals. So there would be no mess with fonts, encodings etc. - Input/output devices could be dramatically simplified (keyboards, Postsript controlled stonecutting devices). - As I remember from my school days, latin sentences tend to be very compact. So, together with the 5-bit character code, no zipping would be necessary when transmitting huge texts over the Internet. Of course, there would be some minor disadvantages: - Hardly anybody can speak or read latin, perhaps aside from a few old men in the Vatican and Robert Black Eagle. - Computational algorithms in latin are a bit clumsy and hard to implement, think of MCCCXCXXXVIII + LXXXIX = ??? Klaus CAPPA RUBRA VIII, NUCLEUS II.IV.XVIII _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
