Victory over Macintosh

[J. Douglas Clayton]

Dear SEELANGers:

This is a slightly belated reply to GG's comments on the PC / Mac
controversy. I strongly support the idea that all Macs are doomed to
extinction. Moreover, since the presence of Macintosh users slows down
communication, immediate government action should be taken to eradicate
them immediately. I propose that a Macintosh police be created to hunt down
and exterminate the recalcitrant survivors. The world will be a better
place without them.

Continuing the linguistic analogy, I note that the language with the
largest number of speakers is Mandarin. Clearly, this is the language of
the future, and the sooner everyone speaks it the better. A second
government edict should then require that everyone who does not speak
Mandarin should learn it immediately. The computer police, fresh from their
victory in the struggle against Macintoshism, should be retrained to
enforce Mandarin everywhere in the world. When everyone speaks the same
language, there will no more conflict, and a bright future will dawn. Think
of all the wasted resources squandered in teaching useless languages like
Russian or Polish or Czech that are spoken by only a few million speakers
and hence doomed to extinction. In the Mandarutopia of the future, such a
useless activity as language teaching will clearly wither away, like the
state under communism.

:-)


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Slavic Languages & Literatures                  Fax  512-471-6710
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