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Re: You've got to be kidding me.

From:Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 5, 2005, 20:24
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.