Dragaera

Language drift and lifespan

Steve Simmons scs at di.org
Thu Sep 5 07:09:15 PDT 2002

David Silberstein writes:

> Mark A Mandel writes:

> > I dunno... i can easily see the rise of Orb-based psionic chat rooms.

> Hmm.  What House would Oprah belong to?  Probably Issola . . . [snip]

The Dragons and the Dzur would fight it out every four years for the
White House, while the Yendi and the Orca play the Democrats and the
Republicans respectively.  Both sides hire the Jhereg for dirty tricks.
A rich Teckla runs the Reform Party as Ross Perot.  The Lyorn run the
mainstream newspapers and the political magazines.  

OK, what tribe is Rush Limbaugh?
-- 
  `The skills needed for dealing with a computer are not simply irrelevant to
those needed for dealing with people; they are actually a negative.  You cannot
reboot, reinstall, or power cycle a human being no matter how desperately they
need it.'  -- me, in forthcoming article