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          “I am fluent in over six million forms of communication …”

> In Kentucky, students may be able to learn coding instead of a foreign
> language.
>
> Legislation in the Kentucky Senate would let students use computer
> programming courses to satisfy foreign-language requirements.
>
> The bill passed the Senate Education Committee on a 10-1 vote last week in
> a move forward.
>
> “Kentucky Coding: Foreign Language Requirement in Schools May be Satisfied
> with Computer Programming [1]”
>

This is not as crazy as it sounds. My friend Wlofie (who lives in Sweden)
considered me multilingual even if I didn't think so, because I knew multiple
computer languages (various assembly languages, C, Lua, some Pascal, Fortran,
Perl, Lisp, Forth and Erlang, plus having written my own back in college)
even if I only spoke one language (English). This, from a guy who spoke at
least four languages fluently.

Sigh. Why not twenty-five years ago? I could have saved myself years of
anguish attempting to learn German (really? six different forms of the
article the?) had this been the case when I was in school.

Then again, I would have missed out on a teacher that sent students on daily
donut runs …

[1] http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/486970-kentucky-coding-foreign-language-requirement-in-schools-may-be-satisfied-with-computer-programming/

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