Re: OT: What? the clean-shaven outnumber the bearded? "Yer Ugly Mug," etc.

 --- Sally Caves skrzypszy:

> Marina Yaguello, however, heh heh, in her book on the lunatics, with some
> gaiety and mean-spiritedness, characterizes the typical _fou du langage_
> as "often a man from Central Europe, born in a country divided and torn
> apart by history: many inventors from the turn of this century came from
> the Russian or the Austro-Hungarian Empires.  Mostly, he is a man of the
> church, a teacher or a doctor, in other words precisely a study-dweller,
> a man with a pointed BEARD [my emphasis] and gold-rimmed spectacles as
> he appears in the portrait gallery which graces Monnerot-Dumaine's
> book, one of the two 'bibles' of interlinguistics."
Interesting opinion. If you ask me, this image fits almost every scholar who
was born between 1830 and 1880, con- or auxlanger or not.

> [...] I just resent the physical stereotype.
Well, YUM proves sufficiently enough that no stereotype would really apply to
us, except that fact that most of us are well-educated.

Jan

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