Re: CHAT: Unsolicited abuse
| From: | Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 10, 1999, 11:48 |
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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.
> Beats me why they were looking at my website in the first place: after all,
> the only links to it are from conlang directories, AFAIK. Needless to say, I
> hit DEL.
>
Best thing to do, really.
Boudewijn Rempt | www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt