Re: CHAT: Unsolicited abuse

On Mon, 10 May 1999, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:

> 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."
> >
> > Oh well, in that case I'd better give up my lifelong hobby right away, if
> > it's *stupid*.
> >
>
> I think that's something that happens to us all at some time - I remember
> I was chatting in a second-hand bookstore with the owner about conlangs
> when someone came along and started argue that since my languages
> couldn't be used for communcation, and the purpose of language is
> communication, what I did wasn't inventing languages, and that I was
> non compos for engaging in so silly a waste of time.
>
I've gotten that too.  The person who said it collected stamps.  Oh, the
irony!