I am in San Hosay for a few days. Caleefurnia rocks. I just dont understand what I was doing in the northern part of the US all this while. Its not like I havent been to Caleefurnia or Texas or Florida or Arizona or whatever before, but its just that I realized all my years in the US have been wasted. I should be living in the damn SOUTH .. where winter means it gets slightly chilly and you just have to roll your convertible top up when it rains.
Thats not the point of this post. At least not now. So I am staying with some friends .. deep thinkers both of them. Always a pleasure chatting with them .. interesitng topics and well thought of opinions which make you rethink your own view-point often. Heres one that I caught yesterday. Its very unfortunate that the English language had to be so popular. Imagine if any of the Indian (or other) languages which have extensive support for all pronounciations were popular .. it would have been so much better. Speech programming like text to speech etc would have been a breeze.
Quite true. Na?
Interviewing? Good luck!
Posted by: Chinmay at February 18, 2005 02:16 PMI had not thought about this before... good ani :).
Well, I think the English Language became popular solely because of economic reasons. It's still alive and spreading because of economic reasons too.
Since long there has been a view that people who use English are important. Thats what ebbed people to use and learn.
Posted by: Amol Hatwar at February 28, 2005 09:22 PMAlthough it would've been easier, it doesn't mean it would've been smarter. If we're trying to create smart speech-enabled robots in the near future, we might as well make them understand logical stuff as 'context'. Common sense is something I hear is really tough to teach to computers, and it's something that can't be hard-coded, so it has to be learned.
Anyhow, I'm a Mexican guy, studying to be a Chemical Engineer who is writing in english, learning to code in english, but speaks spanish. =)
Spanish also has a lot of homonyms (words that sound the same) so our language wouldn've have been much better than English.
Then again, charactersets are another story. ISO 8859 rules!
Posted by: rolandog at March 13, 2005 09:51 PM