Re^7: Filtering Output from two files

Standard English means (at least for me) being understood world wide.

I'd also complain about any Texan, Geordie or Outback slang.

And yes I knew lakh already, I don't see the point in obliging most readers here to look it up in a dictionary.

Cheers Rolf
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Re^8: [OT]: Filtering Output from two files by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Feb 04, 2018 at 19:06 UTC
Standard English means ... being understood world wide. Basic English was an interesting effort along these lines, and apparently still survives in some forms. Unfortunately, any language standardization effort (update: and Basic English was, I think, primarily intended as a teaching tool) is up against the fact that all languages continually evolve. So we may all be talking about "lakhs of this-and-that" in ten or twenty years. (And it occurs to me to wonder about the relationship, if any, between the words "lakh" and "lot", as in "lots of something." Hmm... Something else to look up...) Give a man a fish: `<%-{-{-{-<`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^9: [OT]: Filtering Output from two files by LanX (Saint) on Feb 04, 2018 at 20:03 UTC
Yes maybe in 20 years it's "uber" cool to use "lakh". And in oneandtwenty years English will have switched back to old style counting... ;-) Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply]