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

[Rustom Mody]

On Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at 8:21:53 AM UTC+5:30, Mario Figueiredo wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Mar 2015 17:30:42 +0200, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> 
> >Steven D'Aprano:
> >
> >> 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?
> 
> The concepts behind an actor performing and a programmer programming
> are so distinct, I don't think your reply warrants an answer (even
> though I suspect you would want to draw some cheap analogies).
> 
> I don't know if you realize who bad your stance looks like from the
> position of someone who doesn't even use english as a primary
> development language. 

I dont know what you are saying Mario or even whom you are addressing - Steven or Marko - some seems to apply to one some to the other

However...  While this exchange is going on here, a friend sent me this:

So I stand among you as one who offers a small message of hope, that first, there are always people who dare to seek on the margin of society, who are not dependent on social acceptance, not dependent on social routine, and prefer a kind of free-floating existence under a state of risk. And among these people, if they are faithful to their own calling, to their own vocation, and to their own message from God, communication on the deepest level is possible. And the deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. It is beyond words, and it is beyond speech, and it is beyond concept. Not that we discover a new unity. We discover an older unity . . . we are already one. But we imagine that we are not. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we are.

Fr. Thomas Merton