<8BC845943058D844ABFC73D2220D4665088A0634@nics-mail.sbg.nic.at>,
Alexander Mayrhofer <alexander.mayrhofer@nic.at> writes
>A nice metaphor just came to my mind:
>
>My native language is German, while your's is probably Russian (wild
>guess!). Still, we are using English to converse with each other -
>because it gives us interopability, and in the end allows us to
>communicate with each other. The other option would be than everybody
>learns all the 200 (wild guess again!) languages that are spoken in the
>world - just in case we *might* need one of those one day. That would
>be a lot of effort if everybody would learn every possible language
>"just for the case".
That's not a metaphor, it's an analogy; and it's extensible, in that we
have "lang" attributes in HTML and other systems, so that the language
(= CRS) in use can be specified.
--
Andy Mabbett
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