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

[Steven D'Aprano]

Marko Rauhamaa wrote:

> llanitedave <llanitedave at birdandflower.com>:
> 
>> Seems the ultimate in irony when a language invented by a Dutchman and
>> named after a British comedy troupe gets bogged down in an argument
>> about whether its users are sufficiently "American".
> 
> No, the ultimate irony is that people don't understand what is being
> talked about.

Care to enlighten us then? Because your anecdote doesn't appear to have even
the most tenuous relationship to this discussion.

> Reminds me of a situation decades back when a (Lutheran) Finnish
> theology professor was suspected of heresy. It went like this:
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-- 
Steven