Re: OT: : What? the clean-shaven outnumber the bearded? "Yer Ugly Mug," etc.

En réponse à Stone Gordonssen :


>Only male langers, eh?
Of course. Marina Yaguello cannot even imagine that her sex can also be mad
;))) .

>I've never "pointed" my beard, though I have sported a close-trimmed one for
>20 years, and I never wear gold. :)
>
>>"He is an idealist: if he creates a
>>philosophical language, it is to reconcile language and thought; if he
>>creates a language for international communication, it is to reconcile
>>mankind."  Now I agree with her here.  I just resent the physical
>>stereotype.
>
>True, though I never considered I could create an auxlang. After all, all my
>knowledge of linguistic is informally self-taught.
Probably not strangely at all, her picture of the "typical language
creator" fits Zamenhof pretty much exactly (what about Schleyer? I know he
was religious, but did he look that way too?). I think Marina looked at
pictures of him and generalised from there, thinking that every conlanger
*had* to be like Zamenhof...

>Can one be both a pessimist and an idealist?
I know I am, so it should be possible :)) . Note that I'm also an optimist,
and pessimism and optimism aren't opposed in my opinion. My pessimism and
optimism just don't apply to the same things.

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.

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