Re: OFF: Mental masturbation

Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 02/06/99 19:41:38  , Shaul a =E9crit :

> Hi people!
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>  Above all, as when Tom attacked me (first in a debate about PC and then
>  for offering some flippant sentences about Clinton as a translation
>  exercise), note the lack of proportion between the original spark and
>  the response. All Brian said, for heaven's sake, was "What's wrong with
>  masturbation, anyway? It's healthy. Ask the APA." You can disagree,
>  smile, nod, wonder what Brian does in his spare time, or any other
>  response. But the number of words and messages used - mainly by Tom, and
>  by others - to respond to this deviation is astonishing to me.
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>  After Tom came back to the list, after a short break, I went more or
>  less silent, wondering whether it would be a place I could feel
>  comfortable. During one flame war (involving, if I understood Sally's
>  apology correctly, a different Brian, but very much the same Tom) I
>  realized it wouldn't be such a place. I very nearly wrote something
>  then, but bit my tongue. But this time my tongue is hurting too much, I
>  wanted to say what I have to say, and now I'm going to go back to being
>  quiet. I share with many people the admiration for what was a really
>  laid-back yet high-quality list; the minute it gets back to being like
>  that, I'll be glad to become active again.
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Hi Shaul !

i would like to remind everybody on the list the following :

(i) we're not so many english-speaking, internet-using conlangers in the wor=
ld
(ii) we pertain to different cultures=20
(iii) conlanging is a most important thing to us
(iv) we need each other

so please forgive each other as many times as needed to keep this list our=20
home.

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>  Peace.
>
shalom aniheim
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>  Shaul Vardi
mathias