Notices by Matthias Wiesmann (thias@mastodon.social)

@inthehands @stephstephking ignore the corporate aspect if you will, most people reading and writing globish are not native an don’t have the cultural bagage to understand any metaphor or any reference - and they don’t need to - so this has to go, same goes with vocabulary richness, pick one term and stick with it. The language needs to be as pretty as bulldozer, ie not at all.
Just admitting the language is not English but another related language is the first step.

@inthehands @stephstephking one misunderstanding I see is that in large coloration, you write a lot, but in corporate globish, not English. I’m not sure if English department are ready to teach that…

@inthehands @paninid it’s not about what they did but what they claimed to do. In practice the difference is academic, maybe. When you look at Orban, Erdoğan, or Vučić the behaviour looks different.

@inthehands @paninid I a weird way I disagree, nazis were evil, but believed in some form of modernism, highways, pushing forward young engineers that resulted in jet engines, rockets. Italians fascists had a weird obsession with synthetic fibres. Fascist architecture is a thing.

The current crop has nothing of that, what will we call Trumpian Art? All the evil, but without having to iron your shirt or shine your boots. You won't get an 1000 year empire, but a cheap reboot of the 50s…

@inthehands One similarity I see with the french situation is the suspicion that one party, or one faction thereof is unwilling to put its own ambitions away for the common good… Left wing candidates sacrificed themselves, those from the center, less…

@inthehands one important aspect of reading code is understanding old/weird languages/systems. I feel the current computing monoculture is a large problem in that respect.

@erincandescent @rf @mcc @whitequark @hikari that’s nothing, every 5 years we reinvent ASN.1…