You don't 'edge' bets, you Hedge bets. FYI.
Maybe the submitter is French and has an accent, you insensitive clod!
I do research in computational linguistics, and I've done work at a major machine translation (MT) provider, and I can state with some certainty that we will NOT have perfected translation software in 10 years, if ever. MT is about as old as artificial intelligence itself, and it's still struggling. Researchers can get their work published if they improve BLEU scores (an MT evaluation metric) even by less than a point (on a 100-point scale). Statistical MT is reaching the limits of what it can do by simply adding more training data, and hand-built grammars never really took off as they've not yet proven to be feasible in terms of time and memory complexity. The dream of having instantaneous, accurate, speech-to-speech (or even text-to-text) translation is as far fetched as time travel and deep-space colonization.
It will, and does, help people understand documents written in other languages, but it will be a long time until computers can translate (or understand or generate language) as well as humans.
It is FAR EASIER to open a config file (with comments if it's complicated) and change what I need than to dig through a maze of tabs and menus looking for the magic option I want.
Using only your mouse? Consider the folk who, after 20 years of using a computer, still hunt-and-peck the keys and use the mouse for nearly everything.
Who says the must assimilate culturally or linguistically as well as economically/politically/etc? That sounds a lot like the mentality of Soviet Russia's and Communist China's cultural revolutions? Are you suggesting we should demolish all China towns, little Italys (Italies?), etc?
It gives many people a source of pride and community to have their own linguistic and cultural norms. Consider even the difference between British, American, Australian, etc. Englishes. Or more minutely, the style of your grandparents and teenagers today, or even the difference between chatting with your buddies and asking your boss for a raise. Language variation exists for many reasons.
If you're interested, there's a whole wealth of literature available. Just search for "sociolinguistics".
This restaurant was advertising breakfast any time. So I ordered french toast in the renaissance. - Steven Wright, comedian