Re: Help! Phonology From Hell!

In a message dated 10/24/01 2:28:24 PM, zsau@YAHOO.COM.AU writes:

<< > From the poster so far, it seems that conlangers are a good deal beneath
>average when it comes to watching the telly. Anybody feel to attempt an
>explanations (other than our general weirdity ...).
TV is boring and it requires a certain amount of intelligence to realise
this? But watching TV isn't as popular as you might think, at least with
seventeenish-year-old people in Melbourne, Australia. >>

    I've always wondered about this seeming pride that comes from not
watching television.  It doesn't hurt you the way, say, drinking alcohol
does, or smoking cigarettes, yet it seems like any sort of pride derived from
not doing these (especially the former) is considered juvenal.  Double
standard?

-David