Re: OT - I've Picked Up a Stalker

Kevin Wayne Williams wrote:
> Curt Fischer wrote:
>
>>Danny Wilde wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Incidentally, one of the typical experiences of sci.lang.japan is to see
>>>some translator entering the discussions with a kind of "I know
>>>everything" attitude, good examples being John De Hoog and Marc Adler,
>>>and then finding out that, oops, they don't know everything, and then
>>>having to slink back to Honyaku.
>>
>>
>>Mark was around here for a very long time though. He used to use the
>>name Phil Healey, and before that swahiliphil, I think.
>
>
> Don't forget "Deranged Personality Splinter." I'm still not convinced
> that he and KGII are physically distinct individuals. The relative
> timing of their comings and goings seems to have a suspicious synchronicity.

KGII and Marc had distinctly different knowledges of Japanese, it always
seemed to me. Not that I didn't envy both of them.

Marc is one of a type I find particularly unappealing--the second such I
have known in the last 50 years, but their common interest in Basque is
purely coincidence--the sort who can pick up on a new language virtually
overnight.

Bart
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