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ande-mnoc··on A Typology of Canadianisms
If you read the article you posted, she faced discrimination because she was indigenous. Nowhere in the article was the language she spoke ever mentioned. It’s pretty disingenuous to use this to push a political viewpoint.
ande-mnoc··on Wikipedia: Database Download
A bit of warning to people who use the database download: the dumps don’t reflect a consistent state of the database and contain broken and missing data.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps/What_the_dumps_ar...

ande-mnoc··on CSS Custom Functions are coming
Finally, the inverse of CSS-in-JS.
ande-mnoc··on China tells its AI leaders to avoid U.S. travel over security concerns
> The intent of the original "boast" is to somehow claim the know-how comes solely out of China.

No, it isn’t. It’s likely they mean they haven’t studied aboard or have worked in the U.S., which has been long seen as a prerequisite to innovate in the tech industry there.

My original comment was merely citing what they think. It’s unfortunate that you cannot tell the difference between describing and endorsing.

ande-mnoc··on China tells its AI leaders to avoid U.S. travel over security concerns
Your snarky tone aside, “overseas” usually means outside of one’s country. Microsoft has research teams all over the globe. You don’t have to be in the U.S. to work for Microsoft.
ande-mnoc··on China tells its AI leaders to avoid U.S. travel over security concerns
I have good news for you. DeepSeek openly bragged that none of its people have “overseas experience”. They are all local talents.
ande-mnoc··on Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace
Will Microsoft consider adding a permission model for extensions?
ande-mnoc··on The Forgotten History of Chinese Keyboards
Again, this is a very mainland-centric view. Hong Kong has never simplified their writing system or even developed a proper romanization, and yet has consistently one of the highest literacy rates in the world. Guess what helped literacy? Post-war socioeconomic development like poverty reduction, mass education and industrialization.

> it added a phonetic component to the language

Fanqie has been a thing since the 2nd century. Zhuyin was invented in 1913.

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