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Re: translation needed

From:Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
Date:Thursday, October 21, 1999, 3:07
So what's otakuism?  Did this little pillock make any attempt at
describing his own linguistics achievements?  Besides, it's "Jesus H.
Christ", not "Jesus F. Christ".

Padraic.

On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Fabian wrote:

>Hey guys, > >I posted a request to <sci.lang.japan> to clarify my translation, and I >received proof that idiotas are alive and well. Read on... > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Charles Eicher <ceicher@...> >Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan >Sent: 20 October 1999 04:38 >Subject: Re: translation needed > > >> In article <7uiajo$1ue7$1@...>, "Fabian" says... >> > >> >The artificial languages mailing list invents and discusses human (and >> >sometimes alien) languages. Esperanto, Klingon, and Tolkein's Elvish are >the >> >most famous examples of such languages. Some of these invented languages >are >> >created out of whole cloth; others are created by taking parts from >existing >> >languages. For example, one invented language is based on Japanese yamato >> >kotoba root words, with the sounds modified based on a hypothetical >dinosaur >> >vocal tract, and then re-interpreted using Arabic morphology! >> >> <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. >> >> I recently read a paper about a linguist studying the last two users of of >a >> dying American Indian language. One man, who understood the written >language, >> but not the spoken one, was blind. The other could understand the spoken >> language, but not the written, but he was deaf. The language cannot be >recorded >> or studied, but if only ONE linguist had discovered the endangered status >of >> this language before the two men became old and handicapped, the language >might >> not have died such an ignoble death. >> >> If only some of the energy you expend discussing these fictional languages >could >> be harnessed for something useful! But no, you would rather study >something that >> doesn't even exist. I cannot even feel pity for someone who wastes their >life so >> frivolously. >> >