Re: Schools working to overhaul the art of computer programming (The Columbian)

Jean-François Lemaire said:

Hello,

On Monday 28 May 2007 21:30, Richard Heathfield wrote:

This is a language thing, not a mathematics thing. Languages are
whatever people decide they are. To call my rendition an error is of
course your right, but nevertheless the expression "plus ca change,
plus ca meme chose" is not an unreasonable representation of "always
different, yet always the same", even if it isn't in canonical form.

I hope I'm not being impolite for intervening in this discussion (I
haven't carefully followed this thread and may be missing some subtle
humour) but I happen to be a native French speaker and I would like to
point out, just for the sake of precision, that "Plus ca meme chose"
is grammatically incorrect and probably incomprehensible by French
speakers without the first part of the sentence, even though it may
look close enough to the real phrasing to a non-French speaker.

Ah, now I have no alternative - I must bow to your infinitely greater
knowledge of French, and fold.

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Richard Heathfield
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