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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_English
English is already de-facto lingua franca in Europe, but would you support adoption of Euro English as an official variant of English language and make it another official language in each member state in the future? Not near future, but maybe in 40 - 50 years?
Younger generations already tend to be fluent in English, much more than previous generations. Official EU documents are written in English. There is a huge influx of non-EU English speaking immigrants in EU. Programs such as Erasmus are making a huge contribution to adoption of English. In many international companies (especially IT) official language is English and all employees are required to know it, regardless of their nationality.
Yet all the bureaucracy is done in official language of each member state (with a few rare exceptions here and there), which creates a lot of trouble and headache for majority of immigrants. Anyone who lived in another member state is well aware of these issues.
Would you support even further standardization and integration of Euro English? Basically forcing each member state to have all the official documents translated into Euro English, allowing contracts to be concluded in Euro English, having spell checkers available in Euro English etc (EN-EU), every website having Euro English version?
Right now in continental Europe there's a weird mixture of American and British English, everyone uses a variant of their choice without any kind of standardization. Standardized Euro English would eliminate all inconsistencies and misunderstandings.
What do you think? Would this be a good idea or am I too lost in daydreaming?
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Arkansas newspaper article: (https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2019/oct/12/lawyer-lie-left-adoption-chaos-20191012/)
I had this shower thought today:
Languages can only gain significant adoption if they are used in a piece of highly influential software. This seems obvious, but here's what I think is an interesting hypothetical:
"If Unix was not built in C, would we care about C today?"
"Did Smalltalk fail because it never had a killer app that landed with the public?"
In a quick rundown of some really big (adoption, not "quality") languages from history:
C -> Unix
Ruby -> Rails (this is the best example)
Python -> machine learning / data science libraries
Go -> Kubernetes
In the inverse,
Browsers -> Javascript
Counterpoints:
Java -> ???? the JVM? J2EE?? SOAs?
MSFT Langs -> ?? C# -> MS Vista (lol)?
I think this observation is important. It implies that popular language design should not be about the act of programming but rather what killer app can be built on the language. If you believe in this idea, you could predict that Kotlin will fail because it doesn't have a killer app regardless of its "superior" development experience to Java. Go is a great example of how developers care about cargo-culting Google more than actual language features.
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I don't read a ton on crypto, but what I've seen recently seems to imply that BTC is growing rapidly in Japan (and has already been big in China). For multiple reasons, these two countries also seem like places that might have higher than average interest in Gridcoin. Does Gridcoin do any outreach or advertising in these languages/countries?
I read that the only real opposition to the League's adoption of Esperanto came from France. Was France's disapproval of Esperanto the reason why it wasn't adopted? And if so, how did the structure of the League of Nations give France the power to do this?
I'll use an example:
Say you are the marketer of a successful small-midsize tech company that sells a widget to a pretty specific audience. Then you are bought by a massive technology firm that specializes in component-level tech with a totally different - and very sophisticated and savvy - audience. So you market to joe-blow, and they market to genius, scientist types.
What do you do when the parent company - the sophisticated tech company - wants you to conform to their style and language guidelines so that their marketing materials are all consistent? So they take a brochure, for example, that is presented in straightforward language, and want to use a new one that speaks in the same corporate tone and also promotes layers and layers of sophistication that are not only not relevant to your joe-blow audience, but could have a negative impact?
Anyone who has worked in big company marcom knows how strict they can be about their collateral material and the consistency of their materials across all platforms. They don't want a department/section's brochure deviating from a style that is consistent across all of their business units.
And the caveat here is the parent company recognizes that the small-midsize tech company is very, very profitable and wants it to continue, but insists on consistent marketing materials. So right now, the tech sales team just doesn't use the marcom materials. Which is sad.
What's a solution that the parent company would find satisfying? How is this kind of thing navigated?
Most GRE students donโt spend enough time considering the mindset theyโll need on test day. In a different article, I suggested that the simple act of smiling can increase your performance. In this article, weโll go a little deeper and examine how confidence (even fake confidence) and body language can help you conquer the beast.
CONFIDENCE
A math professor once told me that excelling in mathematics is 80% confidence. I think this percent is somewhat high, but I agree that confidence is a must-have ingredient in mathematics, as well as in a variety of other endeavors, including the GRE.
Students who lack confidence are chronically afraid of the GRE and, on test day, they spend far too much time engaged in counter-productive thinking: I wonder how Iโm doing. I hope the reader likes my essay. Did I answer that last question correctly? Iโll die if I bomb this test. This is a huge waste of brain power. Whatโs worse is that a submissive mindset leads to second-guessing, which causes test-takers to waste valuable time double-, triple-, and quadruple-checking their responses.
So, how does one overcome a lack of confidence? One approach is to confront each negative thought with a positive affirmation: Things are going really swell! The reader will love my essay! Iโm sure I answered that last question correctly! I wonโt bomb this test! I donโt recommend this approach.
The better approach is a pre-emptive strike that prevents the negative self-talk from occurring in the first place. To do this, you must adopt an attitude of unwavering superiority. On test day, you must assume the role of a painfully smug know-it-all, the kind of person everyone disdains. Of course, if you donโt want to be an object of disdain, then keep these thoughts to yourself, but that shouldnโt diminish the outrageously cavalier commentary taking place inside your head.
So, how does all of this play out? First, act as though every question is painfully easy and fails to even scratch the surface of your advanced skills. In fact, the entire test is beneath you.
But what if you canโt answer a question? No problem. Make an educated guess, and say to yourself, โIโm not going to waste my time on such a ridiculous question.โ Then move on and never look back. Always engage with the question at hand, and always maintain your air of superiority. If you can pull this off, you wonโt be handcuffed by meek
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Most GMAT students donโt spend enough time considering the mindset theyโll need on test day. In a different article, I suggested that the simple act of smiling can increase your performance. In this article, weโll go a little deeper and examine how confidence (even fake confidence) and body language can help you conquer the beast.
Confidence
A math professor once told me that excelling in mathematics is 80% confidence. I think this percent is somewhat high, but I agree that confidence is a must-have ingredient in mathematics, as well as in a variety of other endeavors, including the GMAT.
Students who lack confidence are chronically afraid of the GMAT and, on test day, they spend far too much time engaged in counter-productive thinking: I wonder how Iโm doing.* I hope the reader likes my essay. Did I answer that last question correctly*?* Iโll die if I bomb this tes*t. This is a huge waste of brain power. Whatโs worse is that a submissive mindset leads to second-guessing, which causes test-takers to waste valuable time double-, triple-, and quadruple-checking their responses.
So, how does one overcome a lack of confidence? One approach is to confront each negative thought with a positive affirmation:ย Things are going really swell! The reader will love my essay! Iโm sure I answered that last question correctly! I wonโt bomb this test! I donโt recommend this approach.
The better approach is a preemptive strike that prevents the negative self-talk from occurring in the first place. To do this, you must adopt an attitude of unwavering superiority. On test day, you must assume the role of a painfully smug know-it-all, the kind of person everyone disdains. Of course, if you donโt want to be an object of disdain, then keep these thoughts to yourself, but that shouldnโt diminish the outrageously cavalier commentary taking place inside your head.
So, how does all of this play out? First, act as though every question is painfully easy and fails to even scratch the surface of your advanced skills. In fact, the entire test is beneath you.
But what if you canโt answer a question? No problem. Make an educated guess, and say to yourself, โIโm not going to waste my time on such a ridiculous question.โ Then move on and never look back. Always engage with the question at hand, and always maintain your air of superiority. If you can pull this off, you wonโt be handcuffed by
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