tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri May 03 02:18:03 1996
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Re: Thesis
- From: Jarno Peschier <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Thesis
- Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 11:17:50 +0200 (METDST)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "Mark E. Shoulson" at May 1, 96 01:28:06 pm
[Quoting Mark E. Shoulson]
>
> You get that sometimes... and people who really get all self-righteous at
> you, like you're morally decrepit for studying linguistics while people are
> starving in Europe. We live in a country where billions of dollars are
> spent each year in [...]
Mmm, a small sidestep: I often find this typical American attitude on
the Internet (talking about "here", "this country" and "over there in
Europe" and such) just too much. Internet is *not* America. A lot of
people are from Europe, you know? (Like me! ;-))
Not that I do not agree with what you're actually saying here. Far
from that! It's just the tone of it and the talking about "we,
Americans" and "they, the Rest" (or rather: the thinking that's behind
it) that sometimes gets to me...
Something I had to get of my chest. Back to Klingons and Klingon,
because "tlhIngan maH!", right? ;-)
Qapla'
peSHIr
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