I’m in a class called Netwerkbeheer (Network Management), which spans two semesters and is a transparent excuse to peddle CCNA certifications. As a result, I spend a lot of time playing with Cisco routers and switches, and one of the many, many things...

I’m not even talking about apartheid or AIDS. I’m talking about language. Quite apart from the fact that they incomprehensibly keep pretending their dialect is a language in its own right, they keep applying the wrong words to things, and then passing...