People like to take sides. Look at nationalism, look at football. Especially western thinking devides all in good and evil, not in 'more useful for this' or 'better for that'. And somehow, Apple has managed to be a hyped brand for years now - perhaps because it was an underdog?
You might have noted I sometimes post in Dutch, on things that are mainly relevant to my personal life or The Netherlands. But when posting in English, many of my readers comment in Dutch because they think they're writing just to me, not to my other readers.
Oh, and I'm not into multilingualism. If it were up to me, there were three languages: Esperanto, Perl and C++.
It's one thing to write half Dutch half English to a mixed audience, and it's another thing to have an all English site with all English-fluent readers who have no idea what the fuck you're talking about commenting in Tagalog. The whole damn website in English, all the comments in English, and someone posting in Chinese
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Oh, I automatically dismiss cyrillic and asian comments as spam.
Sometimes, I see a French individual thinking French is a world language on the interwebs. Chinese? Why not. It is nonsensical, but the interwebs do not make any sense.
What's wrong with those three languages, apart from the fact I don't speak them?
See? The problem is they're not always spam. It's just that you usually have no idea what they're talking about so the comment might as well be spam. Which is begging the question why the person even bothered to leave a comment in that language if they knew enough of the other to comprehend it enough to leave a relevant comment.
I just don't like Perl, I don't like C++, and I think Esperanto is useless. Just my two cents.
Oh, I hate to see some users write entire blog posts in language that is not appropriate for the topic of the shared blog. So a debian thing that is supposed to be in English, when not a single word is suggests that you should be writing in Dutch or Russian or Chinese...
That's pretty bad too, but I haven't seen that happen..yet. I just want to know why people think it's appropriate to do something like that, I really do.
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You might have noted I sometimes post in Dutch, on things that are mainly relevant to my personal life or The Netherlands. But when posting in English, many of my readers comment in Dutch because they think they're writing just to me, not to my other readers.
Oh, and I'm not into multilingualism. If it were up to me, there were three languages: Esperanto, Perl and C++.
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Sometimes, I see a French individual thinking French is a world language on the interwebs. Chinese? Why not. It is nonsensical, but the interwebs do not make any sense.
What's wrong with those three languages, apart from the fact I don't speak them?
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I just don't like Perl, I don't like C++, and I think Esperanto is useless. Just my two cents.
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OS wars is so pre-VMware :)
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Yeah, I just wish OS X ran in vmware :(
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I have no idea what this is about, I don't really care either for I screen anonymous comments.
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