Re: You meet the oddest people on the Internet

On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 00:57:47 -0500, John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote:

> Thomas R. Wier scripsit:
>
>> Anyways, it may have something (vaguely) to do with that.
>
> My guess is that the logic goes as follows:
>
> 	You know German phonology.
> 	-> You are a German.
> 	All Germans are Antisemites.
> 	-> You are an Antisemite.
>
> Or something.
Well, I heard back from the guy. He claims he was just yanking my chain
over the Yiddish vs German /x/ thing, but that's a hellaciously weird
thing to yank a complete stranger's chain over, especially without so much
as a ";-)"

Surely, that'd mean *he* was calling Yiddish "bad German", not that *I*
was.

Even so, his position was equivalent to the following:

	I state that English distinguishes /t/ from /T/.
	The "normal" French accent of English does not.
	-> I am anti-French.

I have no further comment on the matter at this time.






Paul