Re: OT: LHL was Re: Results of Poll by Email No. 26
| From: | Peter Clark <peter-clark@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 31, 2003, 19:18 |
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On Sunday 30 March 2003 08:51 pm, Tristan McLeay wrote:
> I stuck my head in the ground when the media decided all they cared about
> was the war in Iraq. But I mean more generally in teh case of the typical
> conlanger being left-handed, gay, bearded and lithuanian.
I'm not sure where the phrase comes from (try googling for several different
uses of the phrase), but despite the very real threat left-handed Lithuanians
present to our way of life, mom, the flag, and apple pie, it's all tongue and
cheek. :)
As for the typical conlanger, given the large influx of right-handed,
straight, and clean-shaven people, the only currently active conlanger who
currently fills the stereotype is Christophe. We may be witnessing
(especially with the welcomed influxed of doubly-blessed X chromosome folk) a
demographic shift, in which the typical conlanger is right-handed, straight,
and clean-shaven.
:Peter
P.S. Oh, yes: <latin type='butchered'>Delenda laevus levus lithuanianum
nobis!</latin>
--
Oh what a tangled web they weave who try a new word to conceive!
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