Re: You meet the oddest people on the Internet

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?


-Stephen (Steg)
  "'intzal beih' is still stuck in my head"
      ~ rmr

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