Mar. 24th, 2004 03:40 pm
Wordmongery run amok!
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muckefuckDuring a conversation in the staff lounge just now, Lakshmi began a statement to my predecessor in this position, who now has an IT job with the organisation, "You digital people..." I immediately began mocking her, saying, "Yeah, you Digitalians!" This launched a discusions of Digitalian stereotypes and lifeways.
Of course, we soon felt in need of a corresponding term for non-Digitalians, so I proposed "Analogicians." That Digitalian pinhead objected, saying that, since we still used computers, "analog" was inappropriate. Maybe we should be called "Digitizicians"? I objected, "I prefer Digitarian!" Then someone suggested "Binarian", and this degenerated into a debate over whether Binarians originated in the Binary Islands or the city of Binares. (I did point out that Binares and its environments were settled by Binaryans in the distant past.)
I blame the free supplies of Cherry 7Up.
Of course, we soon felt in need of a corresponding term for non-Digitalians, so I proposed "Analogicians." That Digitalian pinhead objected, saying that, since we still used computers, "analog" was inappropriate. Maybe we should be called "Digitizicians"? I objected, "I prefer Digitarian!" Then someone suggested "Binarian", and this degenerated into a debate over whether Binarians originated in the Binary Islands or the city of Binares. (I did point out that Binares and its environments were settled by Binaryans in the distant past.)
I blame the free supplies of Cherry 7Up.