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Re: translation needed

From:Eli Naeher <enaeher@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 20, 1999, 23:00
> > <otaku rant warning> > > > > Jesus F. Christ! I thought I'd heard every variation of otaku-ism, but > this > > takes the cake. I would like to point out that there are REAL languages > that are > > in sad need of study because they are going extinct, but instead, you > idiots are > > sitting around analysing KLINGON and ELVISH.
<further nonsense snipped> This guy reminds me of someone who once asked why, now that photography has been invented, people still bother with *painting*. After all, think of all the natural sights that may never be seen again...the nerve of those people to go about portraying *imaginary* scenes that <gasp> <horror> *don't* *even* *exist*! ___ )_|_) Eli Naeher - enaeher@emma.troy.ny.us )__|__) )___|___) "A whaleship was my Yale College and my Harvard." \-,__|_,---/ --Herman Melville \________/