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Re: relative weirdness (was Re: signal and noise ...)

From:Adam Walker <dreamertwo@...>
Date:Saturday, December 15, 2001, 1:31
>From: Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg.rhiemeier@...> >Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 22:02:41 +0100 > >My parents, however, know nothing about my conlanging. I have learned >not to tell anything about my bizarre worldbuilding and related projects >quite early, when all I got was utter indifference from my father and >sharp disapproval from my mother. (One ought to mention that my >mother's >parents were protestant fundamentalists, though she herself was not, >only unbearably conservative in some respects.)
And what on earth has *that* got to do with the price of tea in China? I'm a Protestant Fundamentalist missionary. And I conlang like a looney-bird. Everyone in my family knows I conlang they all think I'm weird and they all think nothing more of it. I conlang. My sister and Mom write poetry. My brothers play guitar. My dad burps and scratches. We all have our oddities. Adam
> >Well, I know that I am somewhat weird - one can tell that from the fact >that I like swimming fully clothed (something no-one in my family >ever understood either). > >Jörg.
Well, doesn't it make you rather heavy? Isn't it cumbersome? I've never enjoied swimming which *is* something my family has never been able to understand about me. "We're going swimming wanna come? No. You *never* come. What's wrong with you. Its fun. I don't like it. *exasperation*" Adam _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.

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