From: Rick McCallister
Message: 50958
Date: 2007-12-20
> Arnaud to Rickcybalist@yahoogroups.com<mailto:cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
>
> This is a bit too easy.
>
> Your reasoning is :
> If I feel being abused and insulted,
> And the other piece of shit gladly says it was a
> joke,
> then I am supposed to swallow that it was a joke.
> No
> It does not work this way.
> This is tantamount to domination.
>
> I said It was an insult,
> So what do you say ?
> You don't take my word !?
>
> On what grounds is Pat right
> when I am suppose to be wrong ?
> Your remark makes things worse.
> I have been insulted
> Trying to make me think otherwise
> only makes the whole thing worse.
>
> I will not buy cultural backgrounds as
> a screen of smoke about what is an insult
> and what is a joke.
>
> Apart from "merde de bouche"
> I suggest you study the locution
> "foutage de gueule"
>
> Human kind is only one
> as far as I am concerned.
>
> Arnaud.
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Rick McCallister
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 12:41 AM
> Subject: [Courrier indésirable] Re:] Re: [tied]
> apples on a stick
>
>
> Calm down-- humor doesn't travel very well. I find
> Mexican humor and US sit-com stultifying yet they
> rake
> in billions of dollars. Jerry Lewis seems to a
> curse
> from the ninth level of hell. So not everyone
> shares
> the same humor. If Pat says it was a joke, let's
> take
> his word.
> BTW: Do any of you cunning linguists know any IE
> jokes?
>
> --- afyangh <fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:
>
> > Arnaud Fournet to M. Ryan
> >
> > This site is supposed to be about linguistics
> > so let me comment on your wannabe "jokes"
> >
> > Real "jokes" share certain human and linguistic
> > features :
> > - They are not offending,
> > and one of the easiest way to avoid offending
> others
> > is to speak about oneself in a way that makes it
> > clear
> > you are not pointing your finger at anybody,
> > and you are making a good-laugh absurd show
> > using yourself as the tool for the good-laugh.
> > It always works.
> > - They are stepping out of the "hard-facts"
> reality
> > and having a wild stroll in emotional
> dream-land.
> > - They are stuffed with empathic/emotional
> > modalizers
> > especially adjectives and adverbs.
> > - Sentenced are short and uttered in a lively
> and
> > thoughtless way.
> >
> > Now if we look at your "supposed to be" "joke"
> > ========================
> > Ryan wrote :
> > I have checked Lisan for safarjal but it gives
> only:
> > "merde de
> > bouche". Was the quince perhaps chewed before
> > heating?
> > =========================
> > As far as I can see,
> > "Have checked" : hard-fact
> > no adjective
> > adverb : only : not a modalizer.
> > Sentence length : 13 words (a large and ominous
> > number)
> >
> > From a sheer linguistic point of view,
> > your mail fails to qualify as a "joke".
> > Hard-fact without a single modalizer.
> > Sentence too long.
> >
> > My conclusion is simple :
> > Because M. MacCallister is a clear
> joke-provider,
> > You seized the opportunity to "try to provide" a
> > joke,
> > The problem is : you meant an insult, thrown at
> me,
> > your brain was not in the "joke-providing" mode
> > you tried to cheat, but your brain did not
> cheat.
> > You wrote a hard-fact insult
> > You failed to provide a "joke".
> >
> > My final conclusion :
> > you are a bastard and cheater
> > your apologies are worth shit
> > just as your "jokes" are worth shit.
> >
> > You have nothing to do here on this site.
> >
> > Arnaud
> >
> > ====================
> >
> >
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan"
> > <proto-language@...>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > It was a joke. Read it again.
> > >
> > > Patrick Ryan
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From:
> fournet.arnaud<mailto:fournet.arnaud@...>
> > > To:
> >
>
>
> >cybalist@yahoogroups.com<mailto:cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> > > Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 3:26 PM
> > > Subject: Re:] Re: [tied] apples on a stick
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Arnaud to Ryan bouche de merde,
> > >
> > > Lisan has :
> > > safarj and safarjal : a fruit "coing"
> > > and tree of safarjal : "cognassier"
> > >
> > > I have not found "bouche de merde" meaning
> > > That is to say "mouth-shit" "mund scheise"
> > >
> > > I suppose this is an autobiographical
> assessment
> > > explaining what you are.
> > > I am sorry,
> > > But I am beyond mental age three "shit and
> piss"
> > stage.
> > > Get a rendez-vous with your psychiatrist.
> > >
> > > Arnaud
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Patrick Ryan<mailto:proto-language@...>
> > > To:
> >
>
>
> >=== message truncated ===
> > > Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 12:29 AM
> > > Subject: [Courrier indésirable] Re: [tied]
> > apples on a stick
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > The striking similarity of the Akkadian
> > supurgillu to
> > superglue leads me to ask if any cuneiform
> record
> > remains of
> > reducing quince pulp (by heating?) for use as a
> > superior adhesive?
> > >
> > > I have checked Lisan for safarjal but it gives
>