July 7, 2009 | The Old New Thing

The Old New Thing

More musings on the peculiar linguistic status of languages acquired in childhood

Raymond ChenJuly 7, 2009Jul 7, 200907/7/09

As I noted yesterday, languages which I acquired as a child occupy a different part of my brain from languages I acquired as an adult. If you speak to me in a childhood-acquired language, the information goes directly into my brain via some sort of low-level connection, and I barely even recognize what language it is you're speaking. On the ...

Command line parsers look at what you typed, not what what you typed looks like

Raymond ChenJuly 7, 2009Jul 7, 200907/7/09

Command line parsers are stricter than human beings. The computer cares about what you typed. If you type something else that superficially resembles what you want, but is not actually what you want, then you won't get what you want, even though it sure looks like what you want. I covered a special case of this topic earlier when I ...

The Old New Thing

July 7, 2009 | The Old New Thing

More musings on the peculiar linguistic status of languages acquired in childhood

Command line parsers look at what you typed, not what what you typed looks like

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