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2024-08-18 10:19:26 - Paul D. Foy -
Languages
As I get older I ponder that there are so many languages I do not know, so many ways of people communicating to me that are barred to me.
So that even though in my life I have tried to become familiar with half a dozen or so languages there are still so many I do not know very well or have only rudimentary competence at communicating in.
So what do I do? I tried using some of the American's excellent offerings to write software, where you can set at your computer and work in any language with your program and indeed switch between them - easy.
There seems to be no demand for that - so puzzling.
I now need to get to grips with new languages - Hungarian, Uralic languages, I have no time left, I can't wait years to slowly pick up another one or too, I need to do it faster.
So what do I do.
I fall back on the advice of mathematicians (the knowledge and techniques of which I use throughout my life) - John G.
Thompson, imparted at a dinner in Manchester.
"It's just the words that count, that's all you need" (I can't remember the exact quote).
I understand.
I just muddle along looking at words, the roots and stems and things, I can read about the endings and word order and grammar online and piece things together.
Readings easy enough I've experience enough, I've seen all sorts of constructs before.
I'll do it like that, won't worry too much about it.
Perhaps a friend will say a few words to me.
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