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Tim Sneath riffs on Google’s h.264 video announcement brilliantly

An Open Letter from the President of the United States of Google – Tim Sneath

… we are changing the spoken and written language of this nation to make it consistent with the form of speech already supported by the Language Creation Society. Specifically, we are supporting the Esperanto and Klingon languages, and will consider adding support for other high-quality constructed languages in the future. Though English plays an important role in speech today, as our goal is to enable open innovation, its further use as a form of communication in this country will be prohibited and our resources directed towards languages that are untainted by real-world usage.

The whole post is worth reading. It’s short, to the point, and frames the entire issue in language non-geeks can understand.