Re: New to the list
From: | Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...> |
Date: | Thursday, May 18, 2006, 14:57 |
staving R A Brown:
>For a short time 'Catholic' was added to the description - presumably
>thinking of famous conlangers like Hildegard of Bingen, Fr Schleyer (the
>Volapük guy) and J.R.R. Tolkien. But - and I have no wish to be
>controversial - it didn't sit comfortably with the list of epithets and
>has now given way to Lithuanian.
>
>(Thinks: Do we have any Lithuanian members?)
>
>As for me, I may be crazy - but conform to none of the current stereotype
>epithets since I am right-handed, straight, clean-shaven and
>non-Lithuanian (but I am 1/8th Pomeranian - guess that doesn't count tho)
Well, I'm a straight, clean shaven, right-handed English conlanger - but I
am a Catholic.
Pete
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