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Ask Slashdot: 2nd Spoken/Written Language For Software Developer?
ichimunki writes "I am a mid-career software developer. I am from the Midwestern U.S. and my native language is English. I've studied a few languages over the years, both human and computer. Lately I've begun to wonder what is the best second (human) language for someone in this field to have. Or is there even any practical value in working to become fluent in a non-English language? I am not planning to travel or move/work abroad. But if I knew a second language, would I be able to participate in a larger programming community worldwide? Would I be able to work with those folks in some useful capacity? Perhaps building products for foreign markets?"
French is the language of love!
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Thats right most have C as there first language
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No, you fool.
He should learn proper English [which is most definitely not American].
It would be worse if, say, he was from a southeastern state...
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Interesting point you have their.
The obvious answer is Klingon.
Maybe you can provide translations for "whoosh".
Your rite! Its for there own good!
I dunno. I prefer American spelling to British.
If you're arguing against the awful way the ignorant youngsters use language these days, remember that your grandparents thought exactly the same about you. And their grandparents about them...right back to old curmudgeons complaining about the grunts of their grandchildren 50,000 years ago.
People don't study their native tongues, they just copy people around them and make mistakes. Lingual evolution, it happens.
No sig today...
You're still thinking in Pascal. C should be 0th.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
You didn't read the posting at all, only the title, didn't you?
That's okay, neither did the mods.
1) Always be using continuous tense.
2) Be adding one generous sprinkling of archaic terms of endearment.
3) Do not be using definite or indefinite article, except where not belonging.
4) Move noddle left to right while speaking
Not being the crikey-moses rocket science, is it, old chap?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
You need someone to deal with the god damn customers so the engineers don't have to. Someone with people skills; someone good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?
Oh, I don't know. Adding the "u" in "colour" makes me feel smarter.
It's sort of like when I was 10 and thought that if I could learn to speak Yiddish it would help me become a famous film director (I had an uncle who used to say the Jews run Hollywood, so I figured...).
Anyway, as an Italian kid growing up in Chicago's Little Italy, it must have been disconcerting for my parents when I'd come downstairs saying, "Oy gevalt, mammelah, this farkakte homework has me fertummelt!"
You are welcome on my lawn.