--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@>
> wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "David Russell Watson" <liberty@>
wrote:
>
> As usual, you know not whereof you speak:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasz
As usual you understand not what you read.
The very first link to an entry on that page is "Jász
people", and the second "Jász language". Are you
telling us then that, after having been told of a Jász
ethnicity, you felt you'd better follow the last link
given instead?
> > Not that I know of, but my family history is off-topic
> > in any case.
>
> Somehow I suspected that.
One of your typically dirty innuendos. My personal
family history isn't off-topic because I've anything
to hide, but because it has nothing to do the Indo-
European linguistics.
> Well, then we are in the same boat.
No we're not. _Your_ boat is sinking.
> What are you most concerned about: homophobic?
I'm concerned about all three. One doesn't have to be
a woman to be offended by male sexism, or white to be
offended by white racism, at least not if one is moral,
which takes us back to the original point, your habit
of meandering away on tangents not withstanding.
> > Patrick Ryan wrote to me:
> >
> > > Hey, if you want women to run the show, fine. I
> > > suspected you were a wimp.
>
> Quote some more from the letters. How you broke the law
> and were shocked to be punished for it.
I can't quote what doesn't exist. Your delusional mind
is working overtime again, I'm afraid, or if not, then
you shall have to provide the quote yourself, because I
simply do not find the like in any of my letters.
I think you may be referring to my _mother's_ story of
the Mormon policeman who ticketed only the non-Mormon's
involved in a pile-up. If so, you do have a reading
comprehension problem indeed, for this is what I wrote
(emphasis added so you don't miss it this time):
"My parents, too, lived a few years in various parts
of Utah BEFORE I WAS BORN, and in those years it was
extremely common to see "Non-LDS Need Not Apply" in
ads for job offers and houses for rent. In fact,
once at a pile-up on the highway my mother overheard
a police officer assuring a driver whom he knew that
nobody involved in the accident that he recognized as
Mormon was going to be ticketed."
I didn't mention then, but I will now, that my mother
wasn't involved in that pile-up either, she was just
one of the motorists being held up while things were
being cleared away.
> > I wrote to cyablist_admin, describing Patrik Ryan:
> >
> > > Make sure, too, to sprinkle with as many French,
> > > German, and Latin loanwords and phrases as you
> > > know, even if their meanings don't quite fit the
> > > context, just so the peasants know whom they're
> > > dealing with.
>
> How very odd! I thought a list of highly educated people
> who speak many languages would be amused by utilizing their
> knowledge.
No, what amuses us is how you use such expressions in
hope of impressing people, often trying to force them
to fit a situation that they do not, so desperate are
you for every chance to impress.
You're the list's very own Hyacinth Bouquet (Bucket),
or Mrs. Slocum, and I am unanimous in that!
> Very foolish of me!
Yes, very.
David