Re: CHAT: India-Pakistan Nuclear War?

Jan wrote:
>Irina wrote:
[De ex lurciendo...]

>> [...] Please keep politics off the list, however worthy the cause.
>Aren't you overreacting a bit?
No. Politics are tedious and boring, and don't have a place here.
It's one of the Tabu subjects (along with religion, which can also be tedious and
boring in the wrong hands) which are best discussed in a special forum or else
amongst interested parties.

Both these topics are Guaranteed to generate flames and ill will. Sometimes
inadvertently, sometimes intentionally (I've been subject to both).

I am 100% with Irina here: please keep politics off this list!

>Sure, the main objective of the Conlang List is to exchange ideas >about
>conlanging and conlangs. But since it is an open forum, I believe >people
>should feel free to sometimes post about something >completely different. I
>remember instances when someone posted a
This is true; to a great extent we are most tollerant of offtopic threads. Keep in
mind that there are topics that people are not so good at discussing. Politics
is one, and it is best to keep such off list. Remember, you're dealing with an
international crowd here, all of whom have divergent opinions on how the world
should be.

>joke, or a poem, or a thought, there have been threads about music
Such topics _rarely_ generate the strong emotions that politics and religion do
[everything from disdain to outright hatred and violence]. Do we _have_ to
invite all that here? It's bad enough when the languag related threads get
heated!

[Now, if only those misguided  Bach lovers would come around and see sense. Vivaldi! Viva Vivaldi!]

>and literature... Nothing wrong with going off-topic from time to >time, as long
>as it doesn't end up in endless chitchat that might >obscure the serious
>conlang part.
Chitchat is another problem; but not as unhappy a situation as the hurt feelings after
a good old political flamewar.

>Besides, the numerous threads about natlangs (mostly English and >Dutch, I'm afraid)
>play a worse part in this respect. They have as >little to do with conlanging
>as politics. It seems that they already
They also don't generate the flames.  Now you're just trying to justify political posts.

>caused some excellent conlangers to leave the list or to go off-mail >for an
>undetermined period of time.
Which makes political chitchat better in what way?

>Jan
Fas ty yen boun deuer: dipende ty yen vuzed Zawzen hosdia!
     Cos Nustr!

See? I can be really nasty at politics too!

[... usque ad luciendum]

Padraic.
--
Querto tatam abominos ec didos questundos.
     -Porfius Pomperius, Pe Salacandam.

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