Re: Yaguello's stereotype: response to Roger

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From: "Stone Gordonssen" <stonegordonssen@...>

> I can't claim to know glossolalia speakers across dozens of countreis, but
> the 1st one I ever saw/met was a middle-aged white man, and the majority
> that I knew were white as the church* they attended wouldn't have even
> considered letting in "coloreds" (non-whites).
>
> Was her sampling narrow by circumstance? by design/intent?
I think by breezy carelessness and contempt for her subject.  The same
breeziness that allows her to say that the typical auxlanger has a pointy
beard and wire-rimmed glasses.  The same cutesiness that allows her to
entitle her chapters "The Emperor's New Clothes" and "In Defence of Natural
Languages" (as though "natural languages are in danger").  The whole book is
like that.

Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net
Eskkoat ol ai sendran, rohsan nuehra celyil takrem bomai nakuo.
"My shadow follows me, putting strange, new roses into the world."

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