Re: Moderatorial warning

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
wrote on behalf of the moderators:

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> I wish to ask Patrick, Glen and David (whatever their relative
> blame, which I realise is very unequally divided) to refrain
> from any further discussion of one another's characters. Each
> of you is allowed just ONE "last word" posting on the matter
> (in as civil terms as possible) within the next 24 hours, if
> you like.

Over a month ago, on Sept. 25, 2005, I posted a complaint to
cybalist_admin to which no response was made until yesterday,
Sept. 11, 2005. I've pasted a copy of that complaint to the
end of this message.

Anyone interested can check any of my posts to cybalist which
might have been found objectionable, compare it to the post
to which it was a response, and further compare the date of
that post to the two in my paragraph above, and easily arrive
at an idea of the proper division of blame due in this matter,
I trust.

> Then, please, forget about personal attacks. Other comments or
> complaints should be addressed to the moderators (off-list) or
> to Cybalist_admin, but not to Cybalist itself.

Been there, done that.

> The moderators will keep an eye on you for two weeks' time and
> your posting rights may be restricted if you don't observe the
> moratorium.

If this list continues to be a voluntary outlet for Mr. Ryan's
"ideas", I may well remove myself from it anyway.

David



From http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist_admin/message/106 :

I'm really getting sick of reading comments like these:

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote to Brian M. Scott
(at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/40434 ):

>
> I would consider anyone who made such a substitution 1) ignorant,
> 2) low-class, 3) possessing a speech defect, or 4) a Brit.
>
> Which are you?

Mr. Ryan well knows that Brian isn't British.

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote (at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/40503 ):

>
> I want evidence that it exists outside of tiny enclaves like Long
> Gisland,

For non-Americans, or anybody else who might not know,
the spelling "Long Gisland" used here, and in three or
four other messages from Mr. Ryan, is commonly used to
mock the Long Island dialect.

> and is found in registers outside of the lowest classes and people
> faking Britishness.

My own speech makes this substitution and I resent the
claim that I'm a member of the lowest classes or faking
Britishness.

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote (at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/40590 ):

> Grzegorz Jagodzinski wrote:
> >
> > 3) Gypsy rom < Sanskrit d.omba- 'a man of a lower caste,
> > musician'. This word is not IE and has not any r's.
>
> Yes, that is the etymology offered by people who believe the
> Gypsies are lower than dirt. Is that your opinion also?

> Go back whence you came and where you did not learn English,
> and add better manners to your course of study.

> Frankly, you simply do not have the intelligence to participate
> productively on this list.

Everybody knows that these are but the latest in a long
list of the like.

David

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