AAAUUUUGH! (was Re: consport/congaming)

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 17:04:34 +0100, Jan van Steenbergen
<ijzeren_jan@...> wrote:

> Without indulging in the same eternal discussion about the pros and
> the contras of IB, I must object against the term hijacked.
Aw, crap. Is there no subject about which we will not argue?

I feel like Charlie Brown practicing place-kicking. Every time a thread
starts, Lucy sticks the football out, and it takes a single word spoken
indelicately for her to yank the football away at the last minute, and I
land flat on my back, wondering what the heck happened this time, and
feeling a familiar sense of dismay, or betrayal, or something in that
general semantic space.

I'm half tempted to suggest John lock the list for a week, to let us all
calm down and get a sense of perspective, but I fear I could not live
without my fix for that long.

Can we please think twice, then leave the computer, go get a cup of chai
and a cigarette, or whatever, then come back and think some more before
posting anything in reaction to something we any of us consider
inflammatory?

Let's get back to Conlanging, or at least to general language or
linguistics discussion, and leave the partisanship (on *any* subject) at
the door.




Thanks,



Frustrated in North Carolina

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