maple classic™ 
me: *uses accented letter in project name*
software: "you can only use letters"
me: fuck off you north-american centric piece of shit á IS a letter
@squirrel Not if you want to communicate broadly, it isn't.
Intermediary pidgen is (virtually?) always simplified. Language exiists _between_, not _within_.
@dredmorbius @squirrel is "communicate broadly" a fancy way of saying "speak english"?
Because there's plenty of people with whom one can communicate in languages where á is significantly different from a.
@zatnosk @squirrel Again: pidgen, and library science, both rely on limited and controlled vocabularies and charactersets. But those aimed at common understanding.
In earlier times, common language (and/or charactersets) in Western tradition, were French, German (in physics), Latin, Arabic, and Greek. It's the /common/ aspect which dominates.
So: no.
@dredmorbius @zatnosk dude what the fuck is pidgen can you google that word for me real quick
