Re: [ANNOUNCE] Senora: a replacement for sqlplus

From: Hans Forbrich <forbrich_at_telusplanet.net>
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 17:32:48 GMT
Message-ID: <3E94584B.F9B2F709@telusplanet.net>

> Cool! And in English, we've adopted a few German words ... like the
> Southern California fast-food chain, der Wienerschnitzel ... they need a
> very long building to display their name. Why do Germans feel compelled
> to string a dozen words together into one word? <vbg> Hopefully, my

Because it's much simpler.

You take the paragraph that describes an object, trim white space and capitalize. Then you don't need to spend any time teaching what the new thing is - it basically comes with a built-in definition & possibly even a built-in manual.

One negative side effect ... we (of German background) do tend to be verbose and go on and on and ....... Received on Wed Apr 09 2003 - 12:32:48 CDT