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Re: Obsessed with Mouth Noises

From:Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>
Date:Saturday, April 10, 2004, 17:30
--- David Peterson <ThatBlueCat@...> wrote:
> There are a lot of assumptions you've made that you > might not realize you've made here.  So let's go > through all this:
<snip> Thank you for your fascinating reply. I found it very interesting. I suppose the most I can say in my defense is that while I'm sure that proctology is an interesting study, I personally am not interested in studying proctology. Likewise, I find the occasional article on phonology interesting but it's not something I would want to study in any depth. I'm glad _somebody_ is interested in it, becuase I have to grant that it is an important branch of liguistics. (I'm also glad _somebody_ is interested in proctology.) On the other hand, my own particular unhealthy obsession with the graphical form of written signs, glyphs, alphabets, pictograms, runes, etc., ... Well, I just think my obsession is cooler than your obssession, So there. ;-) --gary