Re: CHAT: Aniese: whose is this?
From: | Matt Pearson <jmpearson@...> |
Date: | Thursday, December 9, 1999, 16:55 |
And Rosta wrote:
>> Daniel Andreasson
>>
>> Matt Pearson skrev:
>>
>> > >'He' I think. I seem to recall that he told us about his wife
>> > >having twins some time ago. Maybe that's why he's been
>> > >lurking lately.
>>
>> > Well, of course, these days you don't need to be a "he" in order
>> > to have a wife and kids.
>>
>> LOL! I know. Especially not on this list. But it sounded as
>> though he had something to do with the production
>> so I took a wild guess. :)
>
>While I Livagically heed Yasmin's admonitions about making sex
>classifications, I would point out that, as I mentioned in my original
>message, iisem in the photograph is, despite having long hair and
>not wearing trousers, by all appearances a man, albeit one who
>cuts a fine romantic dash.
Ah, I had forgotten, when I issued my little politically-correct
retort, that there was photographic evidence to consider!
The fact that someone can be arsed
>to invent a conlang and post a very smart documentation of it
>on the web yet choose not to participate on Conlang evidences to me
>that, surprisingly, for some conlangers Real Life is not an
>irksome but sadly indomitable distraction from Conlanging.
I've never seen this use of the word "arsed" before, and I can't
quite figure out what it means in this context. Please elucidate.
Matt.