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Re: You meet the oddest people on the Internet

From:Christian Thalmann <cinga@...>
Date:Monday, March 15, 2004, 11:26
--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@N...> 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?
My guess is that since you are not totally ignorant about German and in fact care enough about it to point out its features, that makes you one of "them" (the Germans), who are anti-semitic, every last of them, as everyone knows. ::rolleyes:: -- Christian Thalmann PS: I really hope nobody ever reads this post out of context. ;-)