Re: OT: What? the clean-shaven outnumber the bearded?"YerUgly Mug," etc.

En réponse à Sally Caves :


>I think it's a 16th-18 century slogan, seen on signs in pubs during the
>turbulant religious and political times in England.
The motto is still valid (though it's an unwritten rule) in Dutch pubs. It
is implicitely forbidden to talk about politics and religion there, even
today :) .


>Since it often leads to bad feeling here as well, this might be our motto.
>:)  On the other hand, I would hate to shut down talk of conculture
>religions.   Many of our invented peoples have religions.  Kerno speakers
>are I believe mostly Catholic, and the Teonim are largely Orthodox.
Well, our motto may better be "no cross, no crown, no green star" to
include the prohibition to talk about IAL politics (the green star
referring of course to Esperanto, and by extension to all IALs - I know,
maybe too wild an extension, but if the cross can refer to all religions in
this motto, why not? ;))) ). And note that I specified "IAL *politics*".
IALs themselves are nothing wrong :)) .

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

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