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

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
>
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