On 27 October 2016 at 21:40, Random832 <random...@fastmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 27, 2016, at 14:28, Mikhail V wrote: >> So you need umlauts to describe an algorithm and to explain yourself in >> turkish? >> Cool story. Poor uncle Garamond spins in his coffin... > > Why do you need 26 letters? The Romans didn't have so many. Hawaiian > gets by with half as many - even if you count the accented vowels and > the ʻokina it's still only 18. > > Why upper and lower case? Do we *really* need digits, can't we just use > the first ten letters? > > Allowing each language to use its own alphabet, even if any of them may > be inefficient and all of them together certainly are, is the only > reasonable place to draw the line.
Hi Random, Yes that is what I am trying to tell, but some paint a "bigot" of me. So there is no contradiction here. You know you "local" script and you know Latin. So it belongs to my human right if I want to choose a more effective one, so since Latin is most effective now, I take it. Simply like I take a wheel without defects and with tight pressure in tyre. I don't have emotions or sadness that I will forget my strange old letters. And if we return to problem of universal communication "kind of standard" then what the sense to take a defect wheel? I am not the one to allow or disallow anything, but I respect the works of Garamond and his predecessors who made it possible for me to read without pain in eyes and I disrespect attempts to ruin it. And beleive me, it is *very* easy to ruin it all by putting umlauts and accents, just like putting stones in the tyre. Mikhail _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
