Monday, October 29, 2012

Esperanto

At the GNU Public Dictatorship we are nothing if not pragmatic, which is why we accept help from wherever we can get it, even if the help isn't completely aligned with our interests.  We have in the past received much help from the Allies, and now from "Edgar."  It seems that he and "Natasha" were able to introduce a computer virus to "Gertrude" that made her release instructions only in Esperanto.  The number of native Esperanto speakers is approximately a thousand, but we think that the chances of these Esperanto-speaking world citizens being willing to help the New Company is extremely low.  There are more fluent speakers (estimates range up to about 2 million) and there are online translation tools, so we don't think the New Company is hurting too much, but if we can keep them from pursuing their real agenda by making them waste resources on translation from Esperanto we are making progress.  Perhaps we'll have to expand our operation-sharing with "Edgar" in the future!

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