Re: For MKelkar, Kishore and all those other anti-linguists

From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 58641
Date: 2008-05-19

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From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>

>>
>> > Careful Arnaud. He's a libertarian and he's from
>> > Nevada, where you can buy nuclear weapons over the
>> > counter at the Area 51 Gun and Bomb Exchange
>> --just
>> > down the road from the Ale-E-Inn. Where he's from
>> they
>> > don't believe in guilt, they just let God sort 'em
>> > out. It must have been all of that nuclear testing
>> and
>> > incestuous polygamy around there. When you think
>> of
>> > rural Nevada, you need to think of Clint Eastwood
>> with
>> > a suitcase bomb ;p
>> >
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>>
>> That's a complex issue.
>>
>> I won't settle what I think
>> just because this guy lives or was born in that
>> place.
>>
>> Actually what you say sounds very much American.
>> They won't pay ten dollars for social security
>> but they are ready to pay hundreds to make sure
>> they can kill their neighbor
>> and pay thousands to jail in the poor who
>> have never seen what a school or a decent life is.
>> You have about 15 times more people jailed
>> than France has.
>> And no guilt, the Book for all and yelling together
>> at God,
>> this is very much what Protestantism is about :
>> a kind of islamicized Christianity.
>> That's your model of society.
>>
>> Do they have naked-breast bars in Nevada ?
>> That's the next society item you did not mention.
>> To complete the picture.
>>
>> Arnaud
>>
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> Actually they have legalized prostitution, so it's not
> like other places where you can only stare.
> Wow, what a screed you gave, you should be a campaign
> manager
>
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That's the kind of places to make ethnographic work
on the Americans,
I'm not sure it's more dangerous to study the Jivaros.

Arnaud

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