Victory over Macintosh

[David Burrous]

Colleagues:

Not only am I functionally bilingual, I am also  functionally ambi-desktoperous.
Just as I was able to learn a different  language, I was able to learn a
different computer system.  "Snuff" said.

J. Douglas Clayton wrote:

> 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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