Comment Re:terrorist level domain (Score 1) 284
bánkófámérícá is not a TLD. This was allowed several years ago.
bánkófámérícá is not a TLD. This was allowed several years ago.
The names of the genders are wrong. A girl and a table belong to gender A. A boy and a book belong to gender B. Gender B is also know as the unmarked gender.
- Keyboards. Even in Western nations, configurations change however slightly, so that a QWERTY in the USA is a QWERTZ in Switzerland, then another thing in Spain, etc, which tends to REALLY slow down typing speed.
Every keyboard is configured to optimize typing speed in the language or languages of the country it was designed for.
- The North Americans invented the Internet, so USA websites are dot-com, while the rest of the world uses dot-com-dot-suffix.
Many countries use dot-suffix since the internet was invented. dot-com-dot-suffix has been abandoned by some other countries.
Also we have don't have the (IMHO ridiculous) gender system for all nouns whether they are things that actually have a gender or not, which simplifies use of adjectives among other advantages.
Yor are confusing gender and sex. Sex is biological and gender is mostly arbitrary, with biology used with humans, but not all the time.
You forgot yards.
Feet should be abolished. You would say "He is 1 yard and 35 inches tall". Or "I wouldn't touch it with a 3 yard pole".
Then the conversion to meters would be easy (not for heights, though, because 9% error is too much).
inKel isn't answering to the uncle Jack comment, but to
That's why I've always maintained correct/proper capitalization and grammar and compete sentences, even in IMs and IRC chats. In fact, it actually slows me down when I have to purposely corrupt a text message in order to reduce its size (such as on Twitter or SMS).
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What they are actually saying is Martin L. King can't be condensed, his speech is good as it is.
"Can you program?" "Well, I'm literate, if that's what you mean!"
