Y
HN Search
Hacker News Search
new
|
comments
|
top
|
jobs
krdln
searching Neon…
1.
▲
2.
▲
3.
▲
4.
▲
5.
▲
6.
▲
5 ms
·
1.
▲
by
krdln
12y ago
Even if 1.2 billion seems a lot, that's still a small fraction of a world's population. So every choice of a universal language would force majority of a world to learn new one. So that's why I think winning popularity contes
2.
▲
by
krdln
12y ago
Why do you think English is the best candidate for the universal language, how do you define simplicity? First of all, pronunciation and spelling are almost unrelated and you have to learn them separately. That results in really different a
3.
▲
by
krdln
12y ago
If a buggy is going 5m/s (18km/h) then pitch difference between approaching and receding buggy is about a half of a semitone. So I'm pretty sure you can hear it.