Latin-quoting Linus Torvalds plays God by not abusing mortals Linus Torvalds has loosed release candidate 2 of version 4.7 of the Linux kernel on the waiting world. "Things are looking fairly normal, and there are fixes all over, with drivers and architecture code leading the charge as usual, but there's stuff spread out all over the place, including filesystems, networking, mm, library …
> "Anything said in Latin sounds profound..."
That's because the twelve cases of Latin allow for very succinct phrasing. The cases do most of the heavy lifting, so "Veni Vidi Vici" can stand in for at least six words in most languages. The only cost is learning twelve sometimes irregular cases. Ouch.
That's because the twelve cases of Latin allow for very succinct phrasing.
Latin doesn't have twelve cases. It has six[1].
The cases do most of the heavy lifting
Not really. The cases indicate fairly simply the purpose of the word in the sentence, thus negating the need for syntactical sugar as used in less-inflected languages. That doesn't change the meaning of the words - it just means they can be nailed together more closely...
Vic.
[1] I'm not counting the locative as a distinct case because it just isn't, right?
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Dude, why are you purposely trying to stir up trouble? The only thing I could see in this whole article was a writer who wanted to cause a ruckus and get more hits. Why does it matter if he accepted the code, he already admitted it was for selfish reasons. Why pretend that you caught him with his pants down?
He has never put himself on a pedestal. He admits his human failures and is the first one to point them out. Yet, everyone else puts him on a pedestal and then gets mad at him for actually being a human. Can't you all just deal? Friggin children.
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