Re: CONLANG Digest 4 Apr 2001 (#2001-95)

On Thu, 5 Apr 2001 03:21:27 -0400, Muke Tever <alrivera@...> wrote:

>> From:    jesse stephen bangs <jaspax@...>
>> Subject: Re: Blandness (was: Uusisuom's influences)
>>
>> > People who take German are made fun of, let alone anyone who so much
>> > has heard of any other language from any country surrounding Germany,
>> > or near it (France/Belgium excluded, of course).
>>
>> They're actually made fun of?  That's simply outrageous.  The German
>> language students at my high school were a minority, but they were hardly
>> ostracized (sp?).  Stupid fools.  They obviously can't appreciate the
>> beauty of German and the other Germanic tongues.
>
>Hrrf.  I had a vague stereotype in high school that men took German, women
>took French, and slackers took Spanish. ;)
>
>     *Muke!
In my high school, Jews usually took German, Cubans usually took French,
and everyone else usually took Spanish.

Jeff