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Ken Hagan Gold badge

Re: I'm not surprised most commenters against Unicode are anglophones

"I've forgotten almost all the French and Latin ..."

I don't think French and Latin really count as two different languages. They are sufficiently different from English to make you curious about lingustics, but there are languages out there that will make you seriously wonder whether even whole sentences are the minimal unit of translation, or indeed whether it is actually possible to translate them into English without garbling at least some of the meaning.

Notions like "noun", "verb" or even "word" start to look flaky if you review *all* the languages of the world.

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