Re: Don't mean to offend, but...

Jan van Steenbergen:
> No, you don't. Please go to http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/conlang.html,
> and choose option 3 (Join or leave the list, or change setting). Here you have
> the possibility to disable the delivery of messages with tags like CHAT and OT.
> Of course, not all off-topic threads are marked as such, but it might help at
> little, at least.
I wasn't aware of that option. Thanks for the tip, Jan!



Sally Cave:
> To ask us to forgo the delight of talking about the
> people who speak our invented languages, or the
> literature that pertains to them and their world, is
> a little much. 
I didn't ask anything. I just pointed it out that I was having a hard time
trying to follow the group.

> That kind of rigid pigeon-holing just
> doesn't work with an imaginative, talkative, and
> synaesthetic bunch of people.
Now even I am afraid of myself. What an arrogant dictator-wannabe I must be,
trying to force imaginative, talkative, synaesthetic bunches of people to cope
with my personal wishes. Someone please kill me.



Barry Garcia:
> I hope you don't get offended by what I have to say.
I don't.

> The OT threads are insightful to the people on the list.
> SNIP
I'm affraid I don't agree with you. But obviously everybody else does, so I'll
just stick to the available options. Thanks for the suggestions.

João Ricardo Oliveira

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