Re: You've got to be kidding me.

Hallo!

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 09:43:05 -0500,
"Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:

> How did we get into the alleged objective superiority of languages?
>
> I mean, it's at list a somewhat linguistic topic, unlike, say,
> the superiority of countries of residence, but come on!  This list has
> been nothing but flamebait lately.
There has been lots of flamebait lately, but surely not "nothing
but flamebait".  I have been involved in some fruitful on-topic
discussions lately, see below.  But you are right that it is
currently especially bad.

> "Ha!  No tsunamis where I live! Take that, Indonesia!"
>
> "My variety of German is better than the stupid supposed standard."
>
> "Why is everyone so obsessed with phonology when it's utterly
> unimportant to how languages work?"
>
> Not to mention the earlier fracas about American politics that sent
> Christophe packing.
Yes, this is all a big bucket of bilge that has recently been spilled
on CONLANG.

> Well, I'm with Christophe.  At least with John around I could always
> count on some wise and humorous counterpuncture, but he's leaving, and
> I'm not interested in any of this crap.  I'll keep an eye on the
> archives and come back if things ever get back to actual conlanging for
> any length of time - say, an entire day! - but meanwhile, I'm outta
> here.
Please don't go.  While lots of dreck has been posted recently,
it is not really that bad.  There are still people around here
who conduct good-mannered diucussions about their conlangs.
Have you seen the two threads about Silindion, where Elliot and I
discuss various aspects of our conlangs' grammar, for example?

And every departure of a conlanger because of trolls and flames
in the list worsens the signal/noise ratio, and is a victory for
the trolls.

Greetings,

Jörg.