Re: Gnome-games and scheme

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On Fri, 23 May 2003, Danilo Segan wrote:

> Kenneth Rohde Christiansen wrote:
> 
> >Finnish has 14-15 cases ;-) One is only used in old texts though
> >  
> >
> Excellent!
> 
> So, how do you handle these cases in translation?
> 
> Do you see any relation between those 14 and the 7 ones I listed 
> (perhaps it is a superset of that list)?
> 
> If it is, the best thing to do is to teach all programmers Finnish ;-)
> 

Yes, thats one solution - having people understand that there are such
things as non-indo-european languages helps... having cases (inc many
cases) does not equate to the language being more complex, things like
articles and grammatical gender are *much* worse 8-)

> Now, that's not too big thing to require, right? :-)

probably not ;-)

> 
> Cheers,
> Danilo
> 

	Sander

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