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

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Sunday, January 27, 2008, 15:00
The original lefthanded Lithuanian was Steg Belsky's twin
brother, also a conlanger but not a list member. I guess you
could contact Steg to get the details about that. He had "-
Stephen (Steg), brother of the Left-Handed Lithuanian" in
his sig for a long time as a search for "Steg Lithuanian"
will reveal.

IIRC there was at some point a discussion of prevalence
of lefthandedness in gay men and of gay men among
creative people.

/BP

Mostly lefthanded ambidextrous, straight, bearded
Swede-Pomeranian-
Ukrainian (Yeah, I have Lithuania kind of surrounded! And
wear glasses... 8^)>

Amanda Babcock Furrow skrev:
> 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 > > >