@Felienne @guido_leenders Sentence 2 in your first tweet should be an eye opener to everyone.
I still know it didn't see the full implications when a student, that immigrated and learned the Dutch and English languages, told me this some 20 years ago.
Looking back my first glimpse was this:
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I still know it didn't see the full implications when a student, that immigrated and learned the Dutch and English languages, told me this some 20 years ago.
Looking back my first glimpse was this:
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@Felienne @guido_leenders Long ago, while teaching about how to use the Delphi TTabSet (way before Tab Controls in Windows) with my standard example "put new tabs for all 26 alphabet letters", my Nordic students responded "are you sure?" implicating they had 29 letters.
docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/…
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docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/…
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@Felienne @guido_leenders Speaking semi-fluent German (writing any natural language is still hard for me), I knew about umlauts so my first guess was "umlauted letters are distinct over there".
Wrong!
Æ/æ, Ø/ø, and Å/å are at the end of their alphabet.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian…
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Wrong!
Æ/æ, Ø/ø, and Å/å are at the end of their alphabet.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian…
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@Felienne @guido_leenders It helped much when my best friend fell in love with (his now wife) Eldbjørg: I knew how to pronounce that!
I already knew a bit about Unicode, but it was so vast that only few people could explain the implications well.
So I still miss Michael: wiert.me/2018/01/02/mic…
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I already knew a bit about Unicode, but it was so vast that only few people could explain the implications well.
So I still miss Michael: wiert.me/2018/01/02/mic…
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@Felienne @guido_leenders Another simple thing taught me more: the Turkish dotted uppercase İ just scratch the surface of international teams. So I wrote a blog post on it:
wiert.me/2018/06/05/the…
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wiert.me/2018/06/05/the…
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@Felienne @guido_leenders While speaking about .NET and Delphi I met so many people on conferences and am still amazed - with their various alphabets like Hebrew, Arabic, Hindi, Japanese or Chines - how well they managed to learn both English*and* programming languages.
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@Felienne @guido_leenders So Tweets like
Over the decades I also became more relaxed about not phrasing languages (natural or programming) well: for most making language mistakes is not laziness!
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https://twitter.com/Felienne/status/1492124441886797831bring me joy: other people that understand that struggle and try to help with it.
Over the decades I also became more relaxed about not phrasing languages (natural or programming) well: for most making language mistakes is not laziness!
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@Felienne @guido_leenders It also means that I am (at slow pace as I am still rapidly exhausted; I will take a break after these tweets) to read some 20 pages of The Programmer's Brain.
manning.com/books/the-prog…
There is so much insight there from we can both learn and improve the developer's world.
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manning.com/books/the-prog…
There is so much insight there from we can both learn and improve the developer's world.
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