Re: CHAT: Essentialist Explanation

On 07/05 00:42  Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> In a message from Wednesday 3rd of July to the Gaelic language bulletin board
> you sent the following message:
>
> "In case anyone feels my reaction to Eamon Graham's msg was out of step with
> the carefully innocent tone of his, I must advise our members that that he
> belongs to a ConLang group (mostly based in the US, who cannibalize native
> languages to construct new ones, which they call their own, and which can
> be and have been used for ciphering purposes, serving political interests
> far removed from those of the natives whose cultures were raided to make
> them). I would ask our members _not_ to collaborate with members of such
> groups, and I had hoped, until now, that our groups had escaped their
> unwanted attentions.:-("
>
You mean we are the contemporary equivalents of Navaho Windtalkers?
Does that mean we are going to be accompanied everywhere by Nicholas
Cage who will shoot us if we get captured by the Enemy?

Would the man from the Government please stand up so we can identify
where all our good work is going to?

BTW it's my turn with the decoder ring.

- andrew.
--
Andrew Smith, Intheologus                         hobbit@griffler.co.nz
alias Mungo Foxburr of Loamsdown
http://hobbit.griffler.co.nz/homepage.html

The tribe need a father who is afraid only of ceasing to love them well.
                                                       - James K. Baxter