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jmoglyyesterday at 12:19 PM2 repliesview on HN

or, just let people call things what they want, and focus on real problems instead. Even this comment as I’m typing feels like too much time committed to the subject.


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serfyesterday at 5:28 PM

I don't think these kind of language struggles are as minor as you paint them, especially around regulation and law-making.

a well understood and unified spoken language is the keystone to a lot of human endeavor; even if the goal is a region without language barriers the bootstrap process towards that goal is accelerated by a common tongue.

dataflowyesterday at 3:23 PM

> or, just let people call things what they want, and focus on real problems instead. Even this comment as I’m typing feels like too much time committed to the subject.

If a problem isn't yours that doesn't mean it's fake.

You can simply not waste your time on it, that's not other people's problem. Why should they even care that you're wasting your time? When you clearly don't care about them wasting time or money due to this stuff, you should expect zero sympathy for your own time wastage on the subject. You need to show sympathy before you receive it.