Re: Lunatic Survey

Matt, inter alia:
> I once received a very violent reaction from an acquaintance (actually,
> he was my host-father when I was an exchange student in Sweden).  He
> accused me in the strongest possible terms of being out of touch with
> reality and guilty of the worst kind of mental masturbation.  Being
> young, I was unable to defend myself against such an indictment.
> (I have since come to realise that "mental masturbation", which sounds
> like the worst crime in the book, is nothing more than an insulting
> term for contemplation, used by ignorant people who do not understand
> the importance of contemplation
(& masturbation)

> to creativity and good mental health.)
--And.

p.s. ObConlang: I believe I have mentioned before how in Namyuan "wanker"
is, if anything, approbatory, while a real insult is "Chat Show
Host". [UK chat show hosts are or used to be unctuous and bland
and repositories of sundry other vices.]