Re: OT: Mood-reflective eye-colour (WAS: Re: The Melting)
| From: | Sylvia Sotomayor <kelen@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 26, 2003, 17:03 |
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il Monday 26 May 2003 06:34 am, il temenne ke Christophe Grandsire ien:
> En réponse à Daniel Andreasson Vpc-Work :
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> >Is it just me or do most people on this list have
> >green eyes? Maybe it's a conlanger trait? :)
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> In my understanding, green eyes are extremely common among white people, so
> I don't think it's very strange. Now if the non-white conlangers had green
> eyes too, you could have a point ;))) .
Define "white". My grandmother from Nicaragua has green eyes. She definitely
has European ancestry as well as Caribbean coast Heinz 57 ancestry. Does she
count as white? I inherited my green eyes from her. I consider myself white,
though I'll say "hispanic" if it gets me something.
-Sylvia
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