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by jcelerier 1957 days ago
> Have you spent any time learning any of this? If not, then why do you say that "this is very complicated and I'm too stupid"?

not all things require the same amount of effort to be understood at an adequate level.

> If you find a text in German and you don't understand a word, because you have never studied German, do you think you are too stupid to speak German?

there are definitely people that are able to look at a german text without having ever studied german before and make sense of it in a rough way

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> there are definitely people that are able to look at a german text without having ever studied german before and make sense of it in a rough way

Sure, by knowing both English and Swedish, German has sufficiently little "uniqueness" left to it that I can often get a rough idea of a German text despite never studying it. But how is this different from reading Haskell when you've previously worked in Scala and Rust?