(Still OT) Nationalism, language and monoculture [was Re: Python Worst Practices]

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info>:

> Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>> Similarly, I've heard some Finnish representatives in the Nordic
>> Council complain how the Danish insist on speaking Danish. The
>> official language there is Swedish.
>
> I'm reminded of the British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, who
> apparently made a habit of answering difficult or embarrassing
> questions in parliament in his native Welsh.

What are the Danish embarrassed about? C++? C#? Delphi? ALGOL 60? BNF?

> But for Britons to use American English is, in a way, to cease to be
> Britons at all.

Did Hugh Laurie have to turn in his British passport?

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Marko