Re: Fruitcakes was Re: Kentum/satem

From: Jake X [mailto:alwaysawake247@HOTMAIL.COM]

> >No, that's a pretty factual statement. :) Both Patrick Ryan
> (the fruitcake
> >mentioned above) and Edo Nyland are top contenders for
> fruitcakiness. For
> >those unfamiliar with Edo Nyland, he claims that Benedictine
> monks invented
> >English, German, Latin, Greek, Russian, Sanskrit, Hebrew, Hungarian,
> >Japanese, and many others from...drumroll, please...Basque!
> I always knew
> >those monks (especially the Irish ones) were bright cookies, but this
> >really takes the cake...er, fruitcake. :)
>
> Um... I'm sorry... but being gay I am sensitive about these things. If
> you're gonna use some term to dismiss someone is wacko (and
> in this case I
> agree), try not to use words that offend "x" minority, like
> the use of the
> word "n-----" to quote one.
That's something I'd never do. Not for any particularly
PC reason, more out of common decency. If I was otherwise,
I'd be short some good friends.

Ryan (who I was on a mailing list with) and Nyland truly do
have some whacked out notions about languages, hence my use
of the term `fruitcake'.