I didn't think about this until Clif's insightful post on the threats to our [hopeful] national language, English.
We have all spent these last five years diligently working to lessen the Arabo-Islamic threat in so many ways. Yet here, beneath our very eyes is the most fundamental way that those Arabs work their way into our homes and schools. In fact, you might even have these talismen on your house and not know it! I'm talking about ARABIC numerals. You may know them as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, but think of the harm we're doing by letting them infiltrate our society. Those people and their simple powers of ten! They created the pesky zero and look what that's done to society. We were so much better off under the Romans when letters were letters and numbers were letters too.
From now on, let's all do our part and only use Roman numerals as possible (at least VC% of the time). Oh, and use this comments to pledge yourselves to the Roman Integrity plan! This is only moderately beneficial to all of those conservative intellectuals who already seized upon Roman online monikers as I think we can safely assume they are in support of this program.
posted by fulsome @ 2:45 PM
