ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)

LinguistCat · Post by **LinguistCat** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 11:16 am

Io wrote:Thanks but no thanks, I'm sick of these mixed signals guys. Mind games and mind reading, I don't like.

Not that you can say what other people are over the internet, but maybe he's homoromantic asexual. On my asexy board, it seems a lot of us don't understand these mysterious signals everyone sends or receives. But then, I know he was sending "signals" and I'm pretty clueless about these things.

the duke of nuke · Post by **the duke of nuke** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 11:43 am

eodrakken wrote:
thedukeofnuke wrote:restrained gay men
pix pls

You know I actually will post pics.

Here's one

and here's another

Viktor77 · Post by **Viktor77** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 11:52 am

The first one's kinda cute. If I didn't have a boyfriend I would say hook me up

the duke of nuke · Post by **the duke of nuke** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 11:57 am

Viktor has a boyfriend?! Ooh gossip!

The first guy is the college brother of my lady friend, coincidentally

pharazon · Post by **pharazon** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 8:58 pm

thedukeofnuke wrote:
eodrakken wrote:
thedukeofnuke wrote:restrained gay men
pix pls
You know I actually will post pics.

But they only answered part of eodrakken's request.

Viktor77 · Post by **Viktor77** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 9:23 pm

thedukeofnuke wrote:Viktor has a boyfriend?! Ooh gossip!

The first guy is the college brother of my lady friend, coincidentally

You didn't know? Oops lol. His name is Xavier and he's 2 years older but meh. BTW are you gay or straight, Duke? I always assumed you straight.

Torco · Post by **Torco** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 9:56 pm

Viktor77 wrote:
thedukeofnuke wrote:Viktor has a boyfriend?! Ooh gossip!

The first guy is the college brother of my lady friend, coincidentally
You didn't know? Oops lol. His name is Xavier and he's 2 years older but meh. BTW are you gay or straight, Duke? I always assumed you straight.

What, straight guys can't gossip now ?

Viktor77 · Post by **Viktor77** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 10:30 pm

Torco wrote:What, straight guys can't gossip now ?

Not according to societal gender roles...

No, I was just curious as I try to keep a tab on the gay ZBBers. It interests me greatly why conlanging attracts a disproportional amount of gay people specifically gay men.

Pthagnar · Post by **Pthagnar** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 10:33 pm

Viktor77 wrote: It interests me greatly why conlanging attracts a disproportional amount of gay people specifically gay men.

jesus christ, it doesn't

Aurora Rossa · Post by **Aurora Rossa** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 10:50 pm

It interests me greatly why conlanging attracts a disproportional amount of gay people specifically gay men.

I've had that same impression as well and often wondered about it. I've also noticed there seem to be a lot of people from Scandinavia as well.

Viktor77 · Post by **Viktor77** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 10:56 pm

Eddy wrote:
It interests me greatly why conlanging attracts a disproportional amount of gay people specifically gay men.
I've had that same impression as well and often wondered about it. I've also noticed there seem to be a lot of people from Scandinavia as well.

Scandinavia might just have something to do with how the government there promotes the arts as well as it's high rate of internet usage, but who knows? I'd love to know more.

Pthagnar · Post by **Pthagnar** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 10:57 pm

jesus christ

Astraios · Post by **Astraios** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 11:04 pm

Viktor77 wrote:
Eddy wrote:
It interests me greatly why conlanging attracts a disproportional amount of gay people specifically gay men.
I've had that same impression as well and often wondered about it. I've also noticed there seem to be a lot of people from Scandinavia as well.
Scandinavia might just have something to do with how the government there promotes the arts as well as it's high rate of internet usage, but who knows? I'd love to know more.

No. It's obviously because Sweden is where Verduria's embassy to Oikumene is.

And the gay thing... Well, we're clearly the only ones with appropriate mental capacity to invent languages. All the heteros on the board just haven't come out yet.

Aurora Rossa · Post by **Aurora Rossa** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 11:06 pm

No. It's obviously because Sweden is where Verduria's embassy to Oikumene is.

Now it's all making sense...

And the gay thing... Well, we're clearly the only ones with appropriate mental capacity to invent languages. All the heteros on the board just haven't come out yet.

Cockroach sure won't be happy to hear that.

Astraios · Post by **Astraios** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 11:09 pm

Eddy wrote:Cockroach sure won't be happy to hear that.

Nah, he's happily splashing around in the river of denial. It happens sometimes. Poor guy.

the duke of nuke · Post by **the duke of nuke** » Wed Jun 23, 2010 4:03 am

I'm straight, since you ask. The picture of me with my lady friend (five pages ago now!) is a fair indicator that I'm not gay at least

It does indeed seem to me that there are a lot of gay guys here.
Actually, Astraios, I never knew that you were gay...

rickardspaghetti · Post by **rickardspaghetti** » Wed Jun 23, 2010 4:07 am

Neither did I. It's not contagious, right?

the duke of nuke · Post by **the duke of nuke** » Wed Jun 23, 2010 4:11 am

rickardspaghetti wrote:It's not contagious, right?

Depends on how attractive he is

Io · Post by Io » Wed Jun 23, 2010 5:03 am

thedukeofnuke wrote:I'm straight, since you ask. The picture of me with my lady friend (five pages ago now!) is a fair indicator that I'm not gay at least

But lady friend sounds so gay (to me at least, like a faghag for example), besides you're English and it's just a matter of time before you come out too.

Nortaneous · Post by **Nortaneous** » Wed Jun 23, 2010 5:44 am

Eddy wrote:
It interests me greatly why conlanging attracts a disproportional amount of gay people specifically gay men.
I've had that same impression as well and often wondered about it. I've also noticed there seem to be a lot of people from Scandinavia as well.

There are a lot of Scandinavians on the internet in general. Once you take into account that this is a linguistics board and a lot of Americans have no interest in linguistics or really anything about other languages, and that this board doesn't like auxlangs (I'd bet that a lot of American conlangers are into auxlangs), it makes sense.

the duke of nuke · Post by **the duke of nuke** » Wed Jun 23, 2010 5:50 am

Io wrote:
thedukeofnuke wrote:I'm straight, since you ask. The picture of me with my lady friend (five pages ago now!) is a fair indicator that I'm not gay at least
But lady friend sounds so gay (to me at least, like a faghag for example), besides you're English and it's just a matter of time before you come out too.

Io, you cad! She's an unofficial girlfriend if that sounds better to you.
And despite being posh and English, I have never been to a private school

On the other hand I could just stop talking now.

Io · Post by Io » Wed Jun 23, 2010 5:52 am

So 'lady friend' is what, more like a friend with benefits? I've seen you saying it a few times and I never knew what to make out of it.

Jipí · Post by **Jipí** » Wed Jun 23, 2010 5:56 am

I've always understood 'lady friend' as a girl friend in the literal sense. A girl you're (close?) friends with, but you're not in a partnership with her.

German is similarly stupid in this regard, since "Freundin" can mean both a girl you're friends with as well as a female partner you're not married to. Hence I for one distinguish between "eine Freundin von mir" (INDEF-FEM friend-FEM of 1s.DAT, 'a girl friend of mine') and "meine Freundin" (1s.GEN-FEM friend-FEM, 'my girlfriend') — though I don't have the latter.

EDIT: The same constructions apply to the masculine form, Freund, of course.

the duke of nuke · Post by **the duke of nuke** » Wed Jun 23, 2010 6:14 am

Io wrote:So 'lady friend' is what, more like a friend with benefits? I've seen you saying it a few times and I never knew what to make out of it.

Heh, for various reasons she doesn't like to be called a girlfriend. "Lady friend," which is an old-fashioned term, is apparently more acceptable to her and I've picked up the habit of using that instead. But we are a couple in everything but name... Friends with benefits don't kiss so much, in my experience

For the sense of a friend who's a girl, we'd probably say "female friend". I agree that the vocabulary here is a bit lacking... doesn't French use petite copine, "little female friend"?

Io · Post by Io » Wed Jun 23, 2010 6:17 am

In Buggerian it's similar приятел/приятелка mean he-friend/she-friend and normally that's how they're understood but if you say "приятелят ми/приятелката ми" i.e. "my he-friend/she-friend" with a definite article, then it's understood as a mating mate. There is also the word гадже which is believed to be a borrowing from the Gypsy lingo and it means someone you date of either gender.