Re: translation needed

This reminds me of an experience I had today.

I decided to see what "alt.language.artificial" was like.  I started
reading at a randomly chosen point.  The first message was a general
question about conlangs.  The second message was a reply saying,
"don't write your messages in HTML, idiot."  The third was a response
from the original poster containing obscenities.

I decided I liked CONLANG much better.

Ed

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Charles wrote:

> Matt Pearson wrote:
> >
> > Fabian, quoting someone from sci.lang.japan:
>
> > >> If only some of the energy you expend discussing these fictional
languages could
> > >> be harnessed for something useful!
>
> > Studying endangered and dying languages requires money to pay for
> > consultants, and in many cases additional funding to cover travel and
> > accomodations for the linguist.
>
> The worst thing about destructive trolls is they steal time and energy
> from productive people, to satisfy their own deep emptiness.
>
> My observation is that unmoderated discussion groups tend to be
> hijacked by such flaming idiots (note dual meaning), especially
> the untraceable ones such as on usenet. My prediction is that
> eventually, only moderated groups will survive. It is similar
> to the economic problem called "the tragedy of the commons".
>
> However, CONLANG seems quite free of that garbage, hooray!
> Maybe conlangers are inherently nicer or something?
>