Re: Boddhi's recommendations on verbal abuse

[boddhisatva <kbevans@xxxxxxxxx>]

                Mr. Mahajan,



        First, there was no ethnic stereotyping in my suggestions.  I was
relaying information gathered from direct observation of indigenous people.
The scatological credentials of the ethnic groups I mentioned are
unquestionable.  Their contributions to the language are well, and
academically, documented.



        As for your second claim, I think that this is a gauntlet you don't
want picked up.  I would put English against any other language, any
time, any where, any day of the week, in any weather, with bells on.


        Tell me, are you familiar with a form of repartee known as the
dozens?  Well, if you are not, and continue these scurrilous and baseless;
which is to say laughable, attacks on the power of my mother tongue to
DIS, I believe that I, and perhaps Mr. Dumain (for one) will have to
acquaint you with this custom.  Should such an ugly, and (for you)
demeaning eventuality come to pass, I think that you would find a
knowledge of all major languages on the Indian sub-continent, Latin,
Sanskrit, Turkic, Farsi, Azerbaijani, and the Ugaro-Finnic tongues would
provide you impotent weaponry and no quarter.


        In other words, step off!




        
                peace,


                        Boddhisatva





p.s. -  Pity bids me otherwise, but let me ask you, out of curiousity,
what atavistic, vocabulary-impoverished dialect did you imagine (before
you woke up) could best English?




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