Re: You meet the oddest people on the Internet

Paul Bennett wrote:

> I just got called an anti-Semite for pointing out the difference in
> German
> between the ich-laut /C/ and ach-laut /x/, and that they're not both /x/.
>
> Dan/Steg/Yitzik/anyone: WTF?
>
> Seriously. How in the hell was that anti-Semitic?
>

I don't know, but are /C/ and /x/ always kept distinct in German?  My
German teacher tells me that northerners tend to merge them.  She could,
of course, be wrong.