[tied] Re: "Niggers of India" - Gratuitous Insults

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:

> tgpedersen wrote:

>> That club-swinging mimosa gLeN seems to have withdrawn from public
>> linguistics (and developed healthier interests?). It is probably a
>> good thing; it would have pained him greatly to watch the depths
>> the
>> subjects of discussions of all the good folks at cybalist have
>> decended to. Oh horror!

> He posts on Botany-Z where they are currently in a furious snit over
> non-genetic ways of influencing the size of pansy petals but he

incautiously

> wrote: "NEVER AGAIN!", and the thread abruptly came to a screeching

halt -

> after which, he continued screeching, in Etruscan.

But he would be consoled to know that the perpetrator of the above
insults has had his posting privilege withdrawn until Christmas
(Gregorian calendar, not Julian).

Richard.
Moderator.