We don't need no discrimination
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Tuesday, May 24, 2005
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Rajesh J Advani
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Sticking to fiction kills a blogger's blogging frequency. No? I think so.
Are numerical digits any different from letters of the alphabet? Weren't all ASCII characters created equal? Don't all of them occupy the same number of bits? Isn't 'W' just as long to a computer as '1'? Would you buy a keyboard with a missing 'E' over one with a missing '0' (zero)?
What is this discrimination for, then? Why do these royal 'numbers' get to parade on a keyboard over the common lot of the 'letters', then? Is Mathematics any more important than English? How would you say three thousand seven hundred and sixty nine, if you didn't have language?
How would you sign a cheque? How would Milton talk about Paradise Lost? How would Shakespeare say 'Hamlet'?
Is equality only for the sexes then?
What's the point of all this?
Oh, nothing. I'm just sleepy.
Are numerical digits any different from letters of the alphabet? Weren't all ASCII characters created equal? Don't all of them occupy the same number of bits? Isn't 'W' just as long to a computer as '1'? Would you buy a keyboard with a missing 'E' over one with a missing '0' (zero)?
What is this discrimination for, then? Why do these royal 'numbers' get to parade on a keyboard over the common lot of the 'letters', then? Is Mathematics any more important than English? How would you say three thousand seven hundred and sixty nine, if you didn't have language?
How would you sign a cheque? How would Milton talk about Paradise Lost? How would Shakespeare say 'Hamlet'?
Is equality only for the sexes then?
What's the point of all this?
Oh, nothing. I'm just sleepy.
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8 comments:
Hope you get more sleep. God bless!!!
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Yes you really need some good sleep
Flaming Cyanide: Me hoping for the same! :)
Rohit: Good point! But what about the question? Eh? :D
Gayathri Krish: Got any lullabies on you? :D
jus tumbled upon ur blog n boy! am i glad
wat a discussion ,english wins over Maths handsdown
(of course i'm biased)
um, what happened to the stories?
Swathi: Thanks! Actually, I'm a firm believer in equality :D Maths was my favourite subject in school ;) But English still rocks :)
Bhuva: They'll be back soon :) Another Celestial Conversation in the offing. Unless, of course, you're tired of the posts with numbers. :D
No, I mean the "I lou to you" type stories!!
Celes conversations is great too!
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