Re: Origins of the Gay Bearded Left-Handed Lithuanian Conlanger

On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 12:44:50AM -0800, Arthaey Angosii wrote:

> I decided to search for the earliest reference to gay, bearded,
> left-handed Lithuanian conlangers:
>
> The earliest post that search returns is Christophe's from October 1st, 2002:
>
>     http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0210A&L=CONLANG&P=1863
>
> He's clearly referring to an established meme by this point, but
> search isn't turning up any earlier messages that have "bearded" and
> "lithuanian" in them. Can any older members shed any light on the
> origins of this?
It starts with left-handed (not bearded) Lithuanians, in a post ironically
about how the list will dwindle and die without John Cowan's presence:

	http://archives.conlang.info/dhe/vancon/weituantian.html

That appears to be prior to the determination that the list was inhabited
by gay bearded men, which Christophe neatly ties together in the post
that you found :)

tylakèhlpë'fö,
Amanda

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