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Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Wed Aug 4 23:56:08 CEST 2010 
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Jack Diederich <jackdied at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Alexander Belopolsky
>> <alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Jesus Cea <jcea at jcea.es> wrote:
>>> ..
>>>> Good luck (and justice!) with your (both) thesis. Uhmmm, what is the
>>>> plural for thesis, in english?. In Spanish it is the same word, changing
>>>> the prefix article: "la tesis"/"las tesis" :).
>>>
>>> "theses"  - isn't English fun?
>>
>> I blame Greek.
>
> And Latin, and Germanic... and, well, pretty much every other language
> English speakers and their ancestors have ever encountered ;)
>
> I have a T-shirt which says "English doesn't borrow from other
> languages. It follows them down dark alleys, knocks them down and goes
> through their pockets for loose grammar". It's funny because it's true
> :)

LOL.

> Cheers,
> Nick.
>
> P.S. Other languages may be just as indiscriminate in their evolution,
> but English is the only one I know sufficiently well to comment on the
> way it evolves over time.

I think all languages borrow from other languages -- it's natural as
people travel and cultures commingle. In the current times, most
languages borrow constantly from English. In 30 years maybe we'll all
be borrowing from Chinese...

ObPython: Python has borrowed from many other programming languages;
early on, C was a dominant influence. Nowadays Java seems to be.
Python is also influencing other languages (e.g. Ruby, Scala,
JavaScript). Long live cultural diversity!

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