Re: Competing Domain-Name Registries Creating Tower of Cyber-Babel

[Mark Durham <mdurham at spandrel.com>]

"R. A. Hettinga" wrote:

> The punchline in all of this to me is that the aforementioned Tower was
> created to *unite* language, names, if you will, not fractionate them.

Well, no. Before God got his dander up over humanity's hubris (chutzpah?) in
trying to build a tower that would reach heaven (Trump, Wright, et al., take
note), there was purportedly only one language on Earth. But in a Reaganesque
attempt to disorganize the workers, Our Oh-So-Irritable Father put an end to
that, inflicting a brutal blow against standards-based communication and
setting the scene for Esperanto, the Rosetta Stone, and Woody Allen's "What's
Up, Tiger Lily?"

But your point *is* well taken.

> To mix a metaphor like a dead horse, people seem to be grabbing the wrong
> end of the biblical nit, here...

Dead horses mix no metaphors. No matter which end you grab.

Apologies for the OT....

> Cheers,
> RAH
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