Re: translation needed

On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Thomas R. Wier wrote:

> Ed Heil wrote:
>
> > This reminds me of an experience I had today.
> >
> > I decided to see what "alt.language.artificial" was like.  I started
> > reading at a randomly chosen point.  The first message was a general
> > question about conlangs.  The second message was a reply saying,
> > "don't write your messages in HTML, idiot."  The third was a response
> > from the original poster containing obscenities.
> >
> > I decided I liked CONLANG much better.
>
> Though I fully understand your complaint (sci.lang seems always
> to be like that), that hasn't really been my experience of
> alt.language.artificial
> There, arguments seem more often than not to be the product of
> dogmatism on the part of auxlangers, not conlangers in general.
>
Alt.lang.artificial must have a very bad propagation, since
the only messages I've seen for the past few weeks were about
haceks and carons...

Boudewijn Rempt  | http://denden.conlang.org/~bsarempt