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Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk

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Post by troad »

Mindless2112 wrote: post #55
Toine wrote: post #50

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"As a French" ne veut rien dire en anglais. Il faut rajouter man, person ou quelquechose. Frenchman, French person, French citizen.

The demonym for France is "French," so it's not wrong (even if it doesn't sound right.)

It is wrong, in the sense that native speakers do not say that, and it triggers what linguists call a "grammaticality judgment" in a native speaker. Same as "He eat apple" or "I am go to school". These may be comprehensible utterances, but they do not fit into a native speaker's internal grammar of valid English sentence structures.

Yes, languages can change, but there is no evidence that native speakers have started saying "a French". The only context I've ever seen that in is "As a French...", which strongly implies a non-native speaker of English. The evidence suggests that it's a common language interference error from French, not some future development of English.

Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk

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Post by AlexeyBelov »

gunsle wrote: post #269
bigfudge wrote: post #161

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Those attempts happened before the US really made such a concrete demonstration it was a security and strategic risk though. That was back in the good old days where they at least pretended to be strategic partners. It's good to be sceptical, but the US really does present a clear danger to the EU and UK now (and the rest of the world). I'm hopeful that this will actually materialise this time, and that Munich and Bi…

The Reddit tier anti America FUD on this site never fails to get a chuckle out of me. Every single day the discussion here gets lower and lower quality.

Do you have anything substantial to add to the discussion? Right now it's just a shallow dismissal.

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Post by AlexeyBelov »

gunsle wrote: post #275
vrganj wrote: post #165

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As a European, the Anti-Americanism is not performative. It's a deep disconnect in values, brought to the forefront by the current administration and the oligarchs running wild. America used to be seen as an example, the big brother watching out for us. Now it's a cautionary tale of greed, hubris and societal decay, as well as an increasingly antagonistic actor of global instability. Y'all ruined your reputation and…

There’s nothing more hilarious to me than neck beard euros waxing poetic about America doing them dirty while simultaneously using “ya’ll” in the very same post. I’ve never once heard a European say ya’ll and I’ve met a lot of them.

Can we, like, not say stuff like "neck beard euros"? And this is less that two hours after your own complaint about Reddit-like discussions on this site.

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Post by roysting »

dang wrote: post #244
roysting wrote: post #45

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Could you please stop posting personal attacks and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. Comments like these, and you've unfortunately posted many others like them, are not ok here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47612036 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580543 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47561644 We ban accounts tha…

What exactly is a flamebait and what was a personal attack?

It seems more like you are rationalizing your personal dislike into justification to use control over others speech in this forum for which you are clearly not qualified. And that is true regardless of what you do or I say.

You were given the power to abuse, I merely have the ability to speak and I will not refrain from speaking, even in jocular and challenging ways, regardless of what you are wont to do.

Do you know what “patronizing” means? You should look it up. It’s really a rather pathetic and vile quality no one should have. Yet here we are.

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Post by troad »

woodruffw wrote: post #129
traceroute66 wrote: post #88

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> Both “French” and “British” are acceptable demonyms No they are not. The Oxford English Dictionary, for example makes it quite clear re. 'French': "With plural agreement, and frequently with 'the' French people regarded collectively ..." I draw your attention to the first three words ... "with plural agreement". It is explicitly telling you that "French" is a collective plural noun and hence cannot be used as a sin…

I think we’re past OED being a normative arbiter of what does or doesn’t pass for acceptable English usage.

Precisely so: the OED's role is descriptive, in that it is to describe English as it is used, not how it ought to be used. It provides evidence of a grammatical rule - it is not the rule itself.

You can speak however you like, there is no language police, but the fact is the average English speaker will perceive certain constructs to be grammatically incorrect. "He eat", "I driving", "a French" etc.

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Post by sveme »

spwa4 wrote: post #287
sveme wrote: post #276

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Do you really think the American empire is never to be challenged? Everything and everyone goes down after a while. Whether it‘s now is unclear, though the active resentment against the US is unprecedented. Sadly, your comment lacks any substance to argue with, all there is are unsubstantiated ad hominems. Sad.

No I'm a realist and realize that all candidates (CERTAINLY China and Russia, but even EU if we're honest) are far, far worse than "the American empire".

Multipolar doesn't mean replacement of hegemon.

It's also two different things, you might be right that China, Russia or the EU would be worse as a hegemon, but that doesn't imply that it wouldn't happen.

Being a realist would imply that you would understand that a fundamentally worse hegemon could still replace an existing hegemon.

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Post by psd1 »

hn_throw2025 wrote: post #78
EinigeKreise wrote: post #56

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You forgot the part where the countries voluntarily join the organisation. By the way, the commission is subject to a vote of confidence by the parliament, which is directly elected. I'm pretty sure you don't get to directly vote for your cabinet members either, wherever you are.

> You forgot the part where the countries voluntarily join the organisation. It might be worth examining the word “countries” there. Both France and the Netherlands rejected the proposed EU Constitution by referendum in 2005. It was then regurgitated as the Lisbon Treaty (with only superficial changes) in 2007, which was ratified with no public vote. The Irish people initially rejected both the EU-empowering treaties…

That's one interpretation of the irish refs. I think the more obvious one is that the first result was very close and needed to be clarified. That also fits with the second one being emphatic.

You're allowed to think that Lisbon warranted referenda in the member states, but it's a minority opinion.

On Brexit, you should question your sources:

> in the three years that followed everything possible was done to reverse the decision.

This is a disingenuous use of the passive voice. Lots of _Remain voters_ did everything possible - i.e. tweets and marches. The government didn't take a blind bit of notice.

The government triggered Article 50 and then called a snap election - a damming order of events. They rammed it through.

> A majority of the British people voted to leave

Not by a mile, lol. The turnout was 37% and the result was 52% leave. Less than 20% of the electorate voted Leave.

Weakest mandate since the hung parliament of 1912, which only lasted a few months.

The electoral reform ref of 2010 got a 60% turnout. For the status quo. On a fringe issue. 37% is pathetic.

Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk

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Post by spwa4 »

MiguelX413 wrote: post #299
spwa4 wrote: post #287

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No I'm a realist and realize that all candidates (CERTAINLY China and Russia, but even EU if we're honest) are far, far worse than "the American empire".

How is the EU worse?

Last time any part of the EU was anything close to hegemonic was before WW2. Perhaps you should look up how peaceful that period was.

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Post by noir_lord »

slibhb wrote: post #153
x3ro wrote: post #152

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What's performative about not wanting to go down with a sinking ship? Or are you under the illusion that the U.S. is doing particularly well right now? It appears that the "we have the bigger stick" strategy is finally meeting some resistance, and I am happy to see it.

France deciding, in principle, to come up with a plan for not using Microsoft is performative. It stops being performative when they actually do it. At any rate, is there a good reason for France to stop using Microsoft? I'm doubtful. It's a bit like the DoD declaring Anthropic a "supply chain risk"; basically performative. To respond to the rest of your post: while the Trump administration's behavior has diminished…

> Also, far-right parties in Europe seem much more dangerous than the right in the US.

Our far right parties are dangerous because they might get elected at some point, US far right parties are dangerous because they already did.

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