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Re: Phaleran homosexuality

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Monday, December 24, 2001, 17:08
En réponse à christopher carter <cscfon@...>:

> > Non-straight conlangers? I don't know why but that idea cracked me up.
:)
> I > don't know why. In college, half the professors and most of the male > students in the Linguistics Department were gay. I even had a > professor > show me an article he found about a research study that showed that the > part > of the human brain that handles language tended to be larger in > homosexual > males as opposed to hetersexaul males.
Homosexual men would be better at learning language then heterosexual men? That would explain many things :))) . Like my friend, who, though pretending he's not good at language, is actually trilingual, nearly quadrilingual (if we consider that he can understand practically all dialects of Dutch and quite a lot of Frisian :)) ). I wonder how true is this assumption though... Whatever. All I know is that I
> love > linguistics and I love the men. :) But I have nothing against the > straights. lol >
Me neither, as long as they don't try to chat me up :))) . Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.

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