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Article #761Re: Computers and human languages (was Re: What is a byte)
From: Alan Lovejoy
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1987 18:08
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1987 18:08
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In article <717@maccs.UUCP> gordan@maccs.UUCP (Gordan Palameta) writes: >"Sumasshedshii vsekh stran, soyedinyaites'" Gordan Palameta Shouldn't that be: Sumashedshchiji fsjekh stran, soyedjinjaitjesj ((Let) loonies (out-of-mind-goners) (of) all countries unite (make themselves (as) one))? First of all, they already have. Secondly, ASCII is admittedly far underpowered to even be considered as a standard for all languages world-wide, even if they all could socio- politically agree to use the "same" alphabet. Thirdly, the Soviets already have RuSCII (Russian Standard Code For Information Interchange). And lastly, it's a lot easier to write "English" in Cyrillic than it is to write "Russian" in Anglographia (excuse me for coining a new term). --Alan "Pjervyj bljin komom" Lovejoy
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