Ironic tales from Antimoon: The French spam answer

Irony revisited   Mon Dec 08, 2008 6:26 pm GMT
Isn't it ironic that the one language, whose speakers destroyed this forum into the troll cesspool it is today are rewarded in this way?
Not Ironic   Mon Dec 08, 2008 7:22 pm GMT
Are you sure they were the ones who did that?
Irony revisited   Mon Dec 08, 2008 7:28 pm GMT
Obviously the forum moderator and administrator are not French.

But the initial trolls on this forum (before being followed by a whole array of others) were all Francophone.
blancberry   Mon Dec 08, 2008 7:41 pm GMT
Long ago, we also had the "Germanics" vs the "Latins", so it's not clear if the current Francophones are the originals who "destroyed" this forum.

Actually, way back when, there were spam/flooding attacks that were a lot worse. Apparently, the 10-times-per-day max posting limit took care of that threat.
User   Mon Dec 08, 2008 8:04 pm GMT
Antimoon closed for a few weeks following a thread flooding attack a few years ago. That was when the languages forum was introduced and greg stopped posting in English.
Irony revisited   Mon Dec 08, 2008 8:24 pm GMT
>>Long ago, we also had the "Germanics" vs the "Latins", so it's not clear if the current Francophones are the originals who "destroyed" this forum. <<

Actually. "We" had a small group of Francophones who behaved incredibly chauvinistically towards French and incredibly hostile towards the English language.

In their chauvinism they tried to evoke 'Latin' ancestry and brought forth a fictional concept known as "Latin culture". Subsequently they mirrored these concepts with "Germanic culture" and coined "Germanics" as a word.
Caspian   Mon Dec 08, 2008 8:54 pm GMT
<< Antimoon closed for a few weeks following a thread flooding attack a few years ago. That was when the languages forum was introduced and greg stopped posting in English. >>

I didn't know greg could post in English! Did he reeally used to?
Guest   Mon Dec 08, 2008 9:01 pm GMT
greg's written English is rather pompous but very good.
K. T.   Mon Dec 08, 2008 9:10 pm GMT
If we could use accents, I'd suggest "It is white" in Navajo. As far as I know, no one has been upset by Native American threads. Btw, one of the most interesting polyglots and linguists of recent times was Kenneth Hale who knew some languages from Arizona tribes (maybe Tohono-Oodham, but I'd have to check.)
Blanc   Mon Dec 08, 2008 9:21 pm GMT
Pourquoi écrivez-vous en langue homosexuelle?

Le forum homo est là:
http://antimoon.com/forum/f1.htm
Frog   Mon Dec 08, 2008 10:52 pm GMT
What do you mean? We aren't speaking French.
blancboeurg   Tue Dec 09, 2008 1:05 am GMT
<< I'd suggest "It is white" in Navajo.>>

If you're looking to shut down posting almost compeltely, this would be a great question. Alternatively, you could require an answer in some non-Latin alphabet that requires Unicode.
blancbox   Tue Dec 09, 2008 5:17 am GMT
Long ago, we also had the "Germanics" vs the "Latins", so it's not clear if the current Hispanics are the originals who "destroyed" this forum.

Actually, way back when, there were spam/flooding attacks that were a lot worse. Apparently, the 10-times-per-day max posting limit took care of that threat.
Irony Reviewed   Tue Dec 09, 2008 5:18 am GMT
Obviously the forum moderator and administrator are not Hispanic.

But the initial trolls on this forum (before being followed by a whole array of others) were entirely Hispanics.
Irony Reviewed   Tue Dec 09, 2008 5:20 am GMT
>>Long ago, we also had the "Germanics" vs the "Latins", so it's not clear if the current Hispanics are the originals who "destroyed" this forum. <<

Actually. "We" had a small group of Hispanics who behaved incredibly chauvinistically towards Spanish and incredibly hostile towards the English language.

In their chauvinism they tried to evoke 'Latin' ancestry and brought forth a fictional concept known as "Latin culture". Subsequently they mirrored these concepts with "Germanic culture" and coined "Germanics" as a word.
Caspian Mon Dec 08, 2008 8:54 pm GMT