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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.