Re: OT: LWII: The Euroclones Strike Back!
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 18, 2003, 17:30 |
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In a message dated 2003:06:17 02:45:59 PM, ijzeren_jan@YAHOO.CO.UK quotes
Padriac and writes:
>> Whew! I wonder what keeps the _real_ IALers
>> going!? All that's hard work! Yet it seems to
>> come so naturally to them...
>
>Yes, indeed :) . Well, many years of experience, I suppose...
But even before the experience, die-hard fanatical AuxLangers had
something kinda wrong with them to begin with: i.e. a confrontational personality; a
deep pathological need to belong to some underdog cause; a Messiah Complex,
etc..
Also there tends to be a strong undercurrent of needing control and order
-_theirs_ and only _theirs_. So a lotta IALers are natural born
control-freaks.
---
Hanuman Zhang
§ § "Occupation?" "No, sacre bleu! Resistance!"
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more
violent. It takes a touch of genius --- and a lot of courage --- to move in the
opposite direction."
- E. F. Schumacker
"Excess is excrement. Excrement retained in the body is poison." - Ursula
Le Guin