Re: Fruitcakes was Re: Kentum/satem

At 10:01 PM 4/30/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>>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.

       Um, being gay (as are many on this list) I'm at a loss to figure out
how you .... Oh! I get it. Sorry, but I've never been called a fruitcake,
so it didn't even occur to me that it could be construed as a gay insult.
I've only ever seen it used in the "that guy's a nutcase / fruitcake /
wacko" sense.

    Keep in mind that there are lots of us "homos / gays / queers /
homosexuals / friends of dorothy / fill in your preferred name here" so if
you think something is inflammatory, you can bet (zillion to one odds!)
that they're NOT being inflammatory. They mean something else entirely. I'm
bad at statistics, so those odds should read whatever would mean that
something actually is intended to be inflammatory occurs once in a zillion
posts.

   Aidan

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