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Thursday 8 April 2004
Just what the world needs: another foreigner blogging in butchered English
 For about six months I have had
a blog about media and technology. In Dutch. While that may appear weird to those very rare individuals that have not yet mastered the language of love, I had a good reason to do so: I figured that since the Netherlands (that province of Denmark where we speak Dutch)
is running southern Iraq as part of the not-quite-so-global-coalition, we'd promote Dutch among the natives and essentially establish a new colony there. A young nation starving for knowledge, loaded with oil, gets on the internet, reads my blog and donates. (Hey, the donation model worked for
Glenn Reynolds.) The Dutch have had success with this strategy to promote our language around the world before: how did you think the word 'apartheid' became the only Dutch word everybody in the world knows? Because our great forefathers instilled those Boeren in South Africa with some wholesome, traditional Dutch values. It was passed on for generations. I'd go as far as to call it one of the first true forms of
viral marketing.
Anyway, it looks like our boys have hit
a little snag in Iraq. They'll be taking it a little bit slower with the cultural indoctrination program, I presume. So for the time being, I'll be blogging in English to maximize my audience. Next up: blogging in Arabic.
Thursday 8 April 2004 - 03:07 AM | category: Culture
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