Re: CHAT: Unsolicited abuse

In message <Pine.SOL.4.05.9905100944270.9213-100000@...>
, JOEL MATTHEW PEARSON <mpearson@...> writes
>On Mon, 10 May 1999, James Campbell wrote:
>
>> Interestingly, I've just received some hate-mail for Jameld. Some wiseacre
>> from Canada just wanted to tell me that "the whole thing is stupid, just
>> like its creator."
>
>Perhaps he was bitten by a rabid conlang when he was a small child
>and has born a grudge ever since...
>
>I once had a psychologist tell me that my conlanging was no better
>than mental masturbation (whatever that means), and the sign of a
>maladjusted personality.  Basically, he accused me of being a
>sociopath.  Boy, did *that* ever make my day...  So take heart!
>Everyone gets conlang-bashed from time to time.
I should have thought that gratuitous rudeness to complete strangers was
better evidence of sociopathy than conlanging, really.

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