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Post by andoando » Sun, Jun 09, 2024, 5:58 PM UTC

checkyoursudo wrote: post #36

SahAssar wrote: post #30

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Usually people have one primary language which is usually the one predominantly used in the home they grew up in (or maybe the one used for their primary education). If you have multiple, that's fine, but your disregarding the reality for 90%+ of people if you don't think most people have a language that is their "primary". > It does not matter to me which language I use to communicate. Why should it? For most people…

Yeah, I get what you are saying. I would never want to mandate any language. I think it is dumb when countries have official languages as opposed to e.g. operating languages. I just think that people are more worried about the homogenization of language than they need to be. In fact, with how quickly culture is homogenizing around the world, I think that it is even possible that language differences outlast cultural…

Post by KSteffensen » Sun, Jun 09, 2024, 6:03 PM UTC

mg wrote: post #2

Maybe the world should standardize on: Driving on the right Speaking English The metric system The 2024-06-09 date format The Celsius scale The 24-hour clock

Post by occz » Sun, Jun 09, 2024, 6:08 PM UTC

throwaway290 wrote: post #96

alkonaut wrote: post #89

Having a non-binding referendum and moving against the 85% vote takes balls. And we're forever greatful that they did. Presumably people thought it would be inconvenient and voted no, while politicians realized the cost of doing it later would be much larger than just ripping the band aid off. At the time, the number of massive motorway crossings and similar was probably nearly zero. Today the cost would be unimagina…

If you already drove cars where drivers sit left side as Wikipedia says, what exactly were those 85% thinking about? Clearly not road safety?

Post by jackothy » Sun, Jun 09, 2024, 6:13 PM UTC

throwaway290 wrote: post #126

jackothy wrote: post #111

I know of this one single intersection in northern Stockholm that still enforces left-hand traffic: https://maps.app.goo.gl/uGWr28JUQnEh9cXc6

Doesn't need to be related to left-handed past. Just imagine those lanes were the other way around, then if you and me were going on Valhallavägen opposite directions and wanted to U turn over there at the same time then we can easily be in the way of each other. When you have two multi lane one way roads going opposite ways and want add a two-way connection between them then you often want to put lanes the opposite…

Post by m_eiman » Sun, Jun 09, 2024, 6:20 PM UTC

encom wrote: post #99

constantcrying wrote: post #10

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>Speaking English Having worked in an international organization where most people communicated in English and most people were ESL, going back to a company where my native language was the norm was a huge benefit in clarity of communications. Languages certainly form how we think, a universal language undoubtedly leads to worse communication and worse ideas.

>clarity of communications I (native dane) work in robotics. Our company has a disproportionate amount of non-danes employed, who also are not native english speakers. I've been reading and writing english since I was very young, but having almost never spoken it makes face-to-face communication challenging. And not only that, but I encounter colleagues conversing in Hindi, Russian, Hungarian, Polish, Greek etc. Any…