Washington D.C. is engaged in the biggest education project in the history of man. It is attempting to teach 300,000,000 Americans that paranoia is a skill; a skill that is the secret to a long life.
Don’t Challenge Me That Way
Over at Revelations From An Unwashed Brain, The Oracle issues this challenge:
By the end of 2010, Microsoft hopes to have Security Essentials in 87 countries and 33 languages. (Could you even name 33 distinct languages? I don’t think I could.)
Well, since you asked, here’s an off-the-top-o-my-head list:
English (duh), French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Polish, Lithuanian, Estonian, Russian, Georgian, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Welsh, Irish, Scots, Serbian, Albanian, Sardinian, Sicilian, Norman, Armenian, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Papuan, Maylay, Khmer, Hmong (well, the various Hmong dialects as a language group–some few Hmong live in a portion of America’s Third World County), Olelo Hawaii, Burmese, Arabic, Farsi… I think that should be well over the challenged 33 number, and if put to the test, I could (very) likely name a few more. These are just what few spring to mind.
Now, understand me well, I do not have facility in any but a very, very few of the number named, and what facility I have had in the past has waned with years’ disuse, but surely anyone who’s at all even moderately literate can come up with a similar list off the top of their heads. Surely.