Comments on: The Disappointing Lack of Similarity Between Opposites, or The Ballad of Next and Prev http://blog.slickedit.com/2008/07/the-disappointing-lack-of-similarity-between-opposites-or-the-ballad-of-next-and-prev/ "Hello World" - The SlickEdit Developer Blog Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:18:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: ghoti http://blog.slickedit.com/2008/07/the-disappointing-lack-of-similarity-between-opposites-or-the-ballad-of-next-and-prev/comment-page-1/#comment-531 ghoti Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:00:16 +0000 http://blog.slickedit.com/?p=238#comment-531 <blockquote>Each pair is opposite in meaning and different in length. When I study these pairs of words, I can't help but be absolutely convinced that the inventors of the English language gave absolutely no consideration to the fact that (thousands of years later) there will be millions of programmers writing code in mono-spaced fonts and really, really wanting it to line up nicely, but thwarted by this lack of similarity in length.</blockquote> This post has to be a joke -- it can't be serious, right? The 'inventors of the English language"? Just who are these so-called inventors? What we call English today (or the various dialects of English) is just a snapshot of the current state of a language that evolved from other languages. Old French, Norse, German, take your pick. Nobody invented it; it just is. If you want invented languages, you're looking for the Esperanto forum. Good luck with that -- it's taken the world by storm.

Each pair is opposite in meaning and different in length. When I study these pairs of words, I can’t help but be absolutely convinced that the inventors of the English language gave absolutely no consideration to the fact that (thousands of years later) there will be millions of programmers writing code in mono-spaced fonts and really, really wanting it to line up nicely, but thwarted by this lack of similarity in length.

This post has to be a joke — it can’t be serious, right? The ‘inventors of the English language”? Just who are these so-called inventors? What we call English today (or the various dialects of English) is just a snapshot of the current state of a language that evolved from other languages. Old French, Norse, German, take your pick. Nobody invented it; it just is.

If you want invented languages, you’re looking for the Esperanto forum. Good luck with that — it’s taken the world by storm.

]]> By: Anonymous http://blog.slickedit.com/2008/07/the-disappointing-lack-of-similarity-between-opposites-or-the-ballad-of-next-and-prev/comment-page-1/#comment-491 Anonymous Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:34:33 +0000 http://blog.slickedit.com/?p=238#comment-491 Is it doable to go with another language instead of English? Is it doable to go with another language instead of English?

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