Re: ,Language' in language name?

On Thursday 29 November 2001 13:20, you wrote:

> En réponse à Irina Rempt <irina@...>:
> > I'm kind of touchy about this, because too many people have told
> > me far too often that <whatever they think "everybody" does> is
> > how I "really" do it, and if I think differently, I'm wrong and
> > they know me better than I know myself. (Tell that often enough
> > to someone susceptible, and they start believing it)
>
> I know that, and I apologize if I said something wrong. I just
> stated my opinion, and will never pretend that what I say works for
> everyone.
Apology accepted, but let me try to show what it was that rubbed me
the wrong way. This is what you wrote:

> I guess someone like David Peterson would argue that everybody
> really create their conlang, while Irina Rempt would be exactly on
> the opposite side, that people really discover conlangs.
And I could only read that as "Irina thinks that all people really
discover conlangs". with a subtext of "and if they say they don't,
they're mistaken at the very least, perhaps lying".

In fact I think no such thing: I think everybody does it (and should
do it) their own way. Mine happens to be discovery, but I'd be
neither surprised nor offended if there were nobody else whose way it
was.

   Irina

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