Re: CHAT: Nov 11th

At 1:07 am -0800 17/11/99, Gerald Koenig wrote:
[....]
>Without
>communication there is boundless demonization of the other.
A shared language does *NOT* mean communication - it means the demonization
of one side by the other is clear to the other side, i.e. I actually know
you're calling me names, I no longer merely suspect it.

Good grief - have we learnt nothing from conflicts in Northern Ireland and
other even more bloody civil strife elsewhere!
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At 8:48 am -0800 17/11/99, Charles wrote:
>Roland Hoensch wrote:
[....]
>> Should/Would You have supported Hitler if he were fluent in English?
>
>I could have argued with him directly, and it would have been
>far more interesting than this.
Then later 10:50 am -0800 17/11/99, Charles wrote:
[....]
>
>You are your own parody.
>Oh well, there are email filters to handle your type.
>Plonk!
Sorry, Charles, if you'd argued directly with Hitler like that, then
there'd have been little point!   And Hitler was somewhat more
uncompromising than Roland.

But wasn't the above exchange carried out in the _same_ language?  It does
not seem to me, at least, to have produced fruitful communication.
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At 6:15 pm +0100 17/11/99, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
>> Date:         Wed, 17 Nov 1999 10:06:23 -0800
>> From: Roland Hoensch <hoensch@...>
>
>> Somehow You missed the whole point, Charles.  [...]
>
>This is the sort of discussion that AUXLANG was created for.
>
>Please go there and have it.
AMEN.

Twice already since I got back on this list about a month back, we've had
at least two bouts of auxlang politics.  I don't like auxlang politics,
which is why I left it - but I like absurdities even less!

Does the auxlang list still exist?  Why isn't it used?

It is possible to talk about conIALs as _conlangs_ without rancor &
partisanship, as I've discovered on another list - a much pleasanter it is
too.

Ray.



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A mind which thinks at its own expense
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