Re: promoting Lua

[Gavin Wraith <gavin@...>]

In message <4AE9DEF4.3040706@spellingbeewinnars.org> you wrote:

> > When I was learning PHP, Python and now C/C++, one of the first things I
> > did/do was search for Python sucks, PHP sucks etc.
>
> I fear I haven't seen the interest. Can you expand a bit?

Does the usage "xxx sucks", which I presume was coined in the USA,
mean "I like xxx" or "I do not like xxx"? For most of my life "to suck"
meant in English what Latin "sugere" meant, and it had no pejorative
or sexual connotation. I presume that the recent usage means what Latin
"irrumare" meant. Latin has two advantages over English: 1) it is
unnecessary to invent new words in it to describe sexual acts, as
it already has a sufficiency of them, and 2) it is impossible to invent
new words in it because outside the Vatican it is dead.

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