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Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.karotte.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Why Python When There Is Perl? Date: 3 Apr 2024 03:25:59 GMT Lines: 26 Message-ID: <l740i7FtjbmU7@mid.individual.net> References: <17be420c4f90bfc7$63225$1585792$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <utd86u$1ipcj$1@solani.org> <17be75acfaf8f0f4$2017$3384359$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <utfol0$1k8j7$1@solani.org> <17bebbae334656b9$74345$2906873$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <utiopt$2i4i5$1@dont-email.me> <17bf321f9c15028e$2$2218499$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <utlbto$38pmm$1@dont-email.me> <17bf5ce92e8c43b4$672$1351842$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <l68nhdFoi1bU4@mid.individual.net> <utnpao$1o32m$6@solani.org> <l6a00fFtmmgU4@mid.individual.net> <utqa6m$klt3$1@dont-email.me> <l6cb59Fal3tU2@mid.individual.net> <utt23i$1qnhe$1@solani.org> <utt3mu$1qnhe$2@solani.org> <uttbjl$1qr2p$1@solani.org> <uugcco$32hhs$6@dont-email.me> <l72hofFnhlqU1@mid.individual.net> <uuhrof$2f8q$1@solani.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net PH+jT/lfj4F2yG1UHl/GcQw05DAyoDOMOCdb1Bnaw2rmVeTrXb Cancel-Lock: sha1:bPshNoV+L2rqx/SHOLAcmafnLRE= sha256:VUjMUJxteoC4HsHnyvfn3d8cGVlfx6VDHAocLMGkvbA= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Bytes: 2514 On Tue, 2 Apr 2024 16:02:07 -0500, Physfitfreak wrote: > Arabic is fundamentally different from Persian. Arabic cannot create new > single words. It does it by using two or more existing words instead of > a single new word. This is its shortcoming. But in a pinch, its power as > well. I may have mentioned the film 'A Separation' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Separation At one point the daughter uses an Arabic word and the father corrects her. 'We are Persians. The word is ....' Despite all the awards I don't think the film was widely shown in the US. Foreign language films seldom are but this one might not fit the narrative of evil Iran. > > In Persian (and all Indo-European languages), you can _correctly_ create > new single words by combining different roots. But it takes time for the > new word to get popular. So it is, just like Arabic, its power as well > as its shortcoming. German makes that into an art form. 'Fernsehzeitschrift' is only the beginning.