Friday, September 25, 2009

The trouble with Blabians or the Universal Translator issue.

Time and time again, I am bemused by the vulgarity of the metropolis. The inns and outs of this mega bazaar are mind boggling. I lay at night in my sleeping quarters and think about the olden times, when we did not have such wonderful technological diversity in our lives. But one can't be blind to our apparent co-dependency on our tech assistance.
The daily example today has to do with the great problem facing the metropolis at this juncture. Due to the recent budget cuts in our fair territory, the Public Universal Translator Service has been disabled. This means that all the peoples and beings of this city can not communicate using their native dialects. Although many of the peoples have come to a Common Universal Language of the region, there are a few groups that still shunt from assimilating into the linguistic cabal of the territory.
The group that I speak of are non other then the Blabians, whom, as we all know are a vivacious type of peoples. Their native speak, although close to the Common Universal Language of the territory, far differs from the common. Yet, their numbers are strong, which tends to make one lean towards having to un-willfully consign to their system and ways of conduct.
As a field example, I bring you the Omnimart incident. Since I am a conscientious shopper, I like to subscribe myself to frequenting more in tuned establishments. I enjoy commerce at the Omnimart, due to their low prices and a wide variety of online specials. Although the Omnimart Corporation is owned and operated by staff, indigenous to this region and fluent in CUL, their local retail satellites tend to be loose on their employment criteria. The many stores around my neck of the woods tend to employ many Blabians in their retail and customer service positions, whom do not posses ample enough CUL vocabulary to properly verse the consumer. Although I subscribe to the wonderful flavor of these peoples, I still find their customer service and communication skills a bit cumbersome due to their inability to properly communicate in CUL. Since the store has a large Blabian consumer contingent, the employees of the establishment do not find it necessary to program the checkout droids in CUL. This would not be a problem if the staff was fluent in CUL, but yet they are not, just as I'm not fluent in Blabian. I find myself flabbergasted since I was under the impression that CUL was the common lingual denominator of the region. Since I, just like they, came to this territory without the proper CUL ability, yet found it important to pick up CUL, I tend to feel that fluency in CUL should be a Blabian prerogative as well, if they are looking to stay in the territory.
As I attempt to communicate with the Omnimart staff since the checkout droids and AI are solely programmed to speak Blabian and not CUL, the common answer I get of "No speako culo" from the staff, frustrates me and leads me to have to communicate in a plethora of wild hand signs and gestures.

This impairs my ability to properly communicate with the staff my consumeristic concerns!!!!

Wlist one might want to blame this impairment on the blatant Blabian defiance of assimilation into the metropolitan collective, I take a deep breath and realize that thinking like that is profoundly outdated and has no place in our modern culture. So I blame the machinery malfunction. I hope that the local governing body surpasses their budget shortfall and reinstate the PUT service promptly.

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