learning a new language 4
I’ve learnt many languages, almost all aimed at making a computer more pliant to my ridiculous demands. This, I fear, has eroded my social skills to the point where I think only in orders. This cannot stand: I know only one natural language in which I can do more than say hello. Therefore, o thou non-existent readers, I ask you, in the confident expectation of hearing nothing: what language should I learn? I’m swinging between Mandarin, Cantonese, and Irish.
(Edit: I’m quite partial to the learning aids at byki.com, but I’m worried that I’m just parroting phrases without learning the underlying grammar, like PHP programmers. (Yes, cheap. I know))
