Subject: Re: Maintaining Minority Languages ( was Re: A small survey (if you have couple of minutes)) From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net> Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2001 23:37:40 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.forth Message-ID: <3208462658937033@naggum.net> * Erik Naggum > If you neither learn it nor know it, what business do you have commenting > on it at all? * Erann Gat > I believe that people have the right to make statements about things even > if they aren't authorities. Fine with me, but you are not arguing against what I said, which was not about "authority", but about learning and knowing a language before you speak about it. Again, you shirk away from what I say to argue for your own arguments in a void. I wonder who you think you are folling. Your comments all turn out to be shallow, prejudiced, and _personal_ experiences, with absolutely no claim to universalizability. An old saying among statisticians is that "from a single data point, you can extrapolate in any direction". You do that. It is, frankly, annoying. ///