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Main Grandfather Clause Discussion
Hey - not meaning to step on anybody's toes, but I excised the bit about why Chekhov's accent was poorly done (by Koenig) in the original Trek. The description of his bad accent was that he "replaced v's with w's rather than vice-versa" - but that's actually not a poorly-done Russian accent.
For one thing, it's a well-known foreign accent phenomenon sometimes called "overcompensation," where speakers of a foreign tongue know they'll have a tendency to mispronounce certain things based on their own native tongue (like "V" instead of "W" for Russian speakers of English), and self-consciously (accidentally) do the reverse (i.e., pronouncing a "W" in place of a "V").
For another, I can vouch for this phenomenon first-hand: my wife is Russian-born, an excellent speaker of English (she was a translation major at university), and occasionally does precisely this! (So do many of her friends who I speak with.)
So, no slam intended, but while I agree that Koenig's accent left something to be desired, the swapping of the "V" and "W" sounds wasn't a good reason why.
Didn't want to try to fit all of that into the edit justification and not make it clear.
Does anyone else think that Pluto should be subject to the Grandfather Clause?
The part of the C99 rationale below made me think of this trope, but since it isn't the main point of the page anyway, I'll just dump it here:
C99 has therefore adopted long long as the name of an integer type with at least 64 bits of precision. People can and do argue about the particular choice of name, but it has been difficult to pick a clearly better name early enough, and by now it is fairly common practice, and may be viewed as one of the least bad choices.
