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

>There isn't. <G> Partly because I don't know many who know about us,
>and to most we're geeks.
I embraced my "geekiness" long ago - IT, linguistics, paleobotany - was
doomed from the start. :)

>_fou du langage_ as "often a man from Central Europe, born in a country
>divided and torn apart by history:
Well, I have faced considerable social adversity over the past 30 years.

>Mostly, he is a man of the church, a teacher or a doctor, in other
Hmm. Lower-case "c" so "man of the church" -> "has a spiritual side"? If so,
then that fits me. If "church" -> JudeoChristianity, then no.

>a man with a pointed BEARD [my emphasis] and gold-rimmed
Only male langers, eh?

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.

Can one be both a pessimist and an idealist?

>Steer wrestling, huh?  Man, that beats my ballroom dancing.
It was an interesting & necessary hobby for me for a few years. Ballroom
dancing is much more significant/impressive in today's world, and something
I can't do, though I do dance plua and A level squaredancing.



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