Re: 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

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