“Welcome to English as a second language! As we prepare for our odyssey through the major thoroughfares and more obscure byways of the English language, it’s important to know that English is a weakly inflected Indo-European language, with Germanic, Latin, and Greek influences.”
“Um, what?”
“Please, we have to start with these concepts. Let’s start with syllable counting…”
“I just want to have a conversation. How do I do start?”
“No, no, no, I can’t let you go off just saying ‘Hello’ to people unless you understand the history of the alphabet. You might use it effectively, but in a way that’s slightly technically incorrect!”
“I think I’m going to go here instead…”
This! Once you’ve worked it out, if you could do a tutorial for the rest of us…
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I’m probably not the best person to write that, I’ve been using git and doing git based CI for years, so I’d probably end up writing something that sounded like this post… However, http://neuroplausible.com/github is a lovely start!
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