On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Jack Diederich <jackd...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Alexander Belopolsky >> <alexander.belopol...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Jesus Cea <j...@jcea.es> wrote: >>> .. >>>> Good luck (and justice!) with your (both) thesis. Uhmmm, what is the >>>> plural for thesis, in english?. In Spanish it is the same word, changing >>>> the prefix article: "la tesis"/"las tesis" :). >>> >>> "theses" - isn't English fun? >> >> I blame Greek. > > And Latin, and Germanic... and, well, pretty much every other language > English speakers and their ancestors have ever encountered ;) > > I have a T-shirt which says "English doesn't borrow from other > languages. It follows them down dark alleys, knocks them down and goes > through their pockets for loose grammar". It's funny because it's true > :)
LOL. > Cheers, > Nick. > > P.S. Other languages may be just as indiscriminate in their evolution, > but English is the only one I know sufficiently well to comment on the > way it evolves over time. I think all languages borrow from other languages -- it's natural as people travel and cultures commingle. In the current times, most languages borrow constantly from English. In 30 years maybe we'll all be borrowing from Chinese... ObPython: Python has borrowed from many other programming languages; early on, C was a dominant influence. Nowadays Java seems to be. Python is also influencing other languages (e.g. Ruby, Scala, JavaScript). Long live cultural diversity! -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers
