----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 12:57 PM Subject: Re: [rehfans] Howard and racism
> Gary Romeo writes: > >like the guttural tongue of an ape. De Camp went on > >to explain how no African language is really anything > >ape-like. > Must be referring to this paragraph: > > But they attempted no reprisal, nor did they accept Conan's urgent > invitation to approach within reach of the bloody chain in his hand. > Presently, grunting in their ape-like speech, There goes de Camp again, popping off instead of fantasizing. It doesn't matter if no language period is really like that, it's just a fucking description of a fantasy language in a fantasy story.. It is not a racial slur, unless you want to think that. All you have here is people who happen to be black who have a language that has grunts and barks and whatever else and sounds similar to an ape. I've heard people who sound like dogs, and others that sound like snakes. So what. Don't read in what isn't there. Scotty Henderson
