Re: You meet the oddest people on the Internet

Barbara Babbles;
Perhaps the /C/ vs /x/ thing is some sort of shiboleth in Germany or
something, just as the letter-name for "H" ("aitch" vs "haitch") denotes
Protestant/Loyalist vs Catholic/Republican in Northern Ireland?

Barbara
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Bennett" <paul-bennett@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 7:31 PM
Subject: Re: [CONLANG] You meet the oddest people on the Internet


> On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 20:46:00 +0200, Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
> wrote:
>
> > On Saturday, March 13, 2004, at 05:29  PM, 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?
> >> Paul
> >
> >
> > Wow.
> > I have NO idea whatsoever.
> > You sure it wasn't something else you said (that the person
> > misunderstood?), or something someone else (with a similar name?) said
> > in the conversation?
> > Maybe "ach-laut" looked like "achtung!" to the person?
>
> I made the following post, in response to someone who said that |h| in
> their conlang had the sound in Ger. |ich|, which was /x/ ...
>
> >> FWIW, <b>ch</b> in German <i>ich</i> is /&#xe7;/. It's /x/ in
> >> <i>ach</i>.
> >> There's a difference.
>
> I got a one-word reply from someone other than the person I was replying
> to ...
>
> > Anti-semite.
>
> The conversation was a total of about 15 messages. I've read all of them
> looking for traces of anti-Semitic wording. I can't find a damn thing.
>
>
>
>
> Paul
>