Re: The importance of watching soap operas (Was "A DISTURBING ...")

On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, H. S. Teoh wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 02:55:11PM -0500, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> > <cough, cough>  I'm a girl.  I like physics (though I confess I suck at
> > bio and never had any real opportunity to take chem), I'm a math major, I
> > was *almost* a history major (military history!) and as for linguistics,
> > well, I'm here.  If you think *you* have it bad, I get the "you're too
> > abnormal to be believed" treatment from most other women and from a good
> > many men.
>
> At least you found a BF who doesn't think so :-)
(fervently)  Amen.  He's great.  And despite not being handy with
languages in general, he might even be willing to learn spoken Japanese
with me.  He's always been supportive of my various harebrained pursuits,
no matter how incomprehensible they may seem to him.

> Honestly, I'd love it if I could find a girl like that... it won't be
> "you're too abnormal to be believed", it'd be "wow, you're just like me!
> wonderful!" :-)
<G>  Yes--one of the reasons I was so happy to learn about "real"
conlangers and that I wasn't just weird for wanting to join in!  I
confess that in some situations I'm happier to find female company, but
that's because there are areas in which females seem to be rarer
(roleplaying games is one example).

YHL