Re: The pitfall of Chinese/Mandarin
| From: | Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, December 8, 2001, 11:03 |
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On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Almaran Dungeonmaster wrote:
> Adam Walker wrote:
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> > >Maarten (who does have neither pointy ears nor a battle axe and a beard)
> >
> > LOL Don't worry. No one here thought you did. But *whispered
> > aside* I know some one here who's got pointy ears and a tail!
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> Just to make sure: It was not my intention to insult any elves dwarven or
> other membes of non-human species subscribed to this list. I have no problem
> whatsoever with elves or dwarves, and I wouldn't mind being one myself. So I
> am in no way prejudiced against elves or dwarves (except for the fact that I
> am convinced that all elves have pointy ears and all dwarves have beards and
> carry a battle axe around). But as a matter of the fact, I am elf nor dwarf.
The plural of `dwarf' is correctly `dwarfs', Tolkien was weird in Lotr.
And I've got nothing wrong with dwarfs, but I'm not to fond of the gentry.
I keep my iron around me ;) Yes, very much prejudiced against the lords
and ladies, thanks in part to Terry Pratchett's _Lords and Ladies_.
Tristan
anstouh@yahoo.com.au
War doesn't prove who's right, just who's left.
- BSD Games' Fortune
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