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[JZer]

[JZer]

Asiatraveller reiterated,

[Zero Hero]

Try not to be too hard on the poor 'Asia Traveller'; he is clearly delusional and may possibly be turning senile. He very recently described Hong Kong as a "backwater", too (one of his favourite terms of late), which will certainly strike anyone who has actually been here as a tad odd (to say the very least).

He is also a linguist-wannabe, and is used to being able to throw sand gleaned from a cursory reading of popular science introductions to the field into the eyes of those who are untrained in this area, as evinced by his stating Chomsky's Standard Theory was published in 1969 when in fact it is 1965, as even a green undergraduate would know. To put this into perspective for you as you may not be familiar with the material, to computational linguists such as myself trained in the Chomsky Hierarchy, Turing Machines, and Generative Grammar, this is akin to forgetting one's own birthday or name.

He is also prone to attacking posters till the thread gets locked. Indeed, it is somewhat rare to see a locked thread that doesn't have his name as the final poster, again as even a brief perusal of the various forums shows.

He also does not shy away from sheer slander (though it is possible that his juvenile mentality may not be quite able to comprehend this concept and so this may simply be immaturity). For evidence of this I simply suggest you look at the STD thread on the HK forum. According to him, one must have actually been to the North Pole to know it is cold.

All in all, quite an objectionable poster. My advice would simply be to ignore him. This is what most do.

[ls650]

Wow. Talk about needing to get the last word in.

[moonraven]

It's a crock, anyway.

I don't believe that JZer is studying for a MA in German.

I think he is a 15 year-old with lots of zits and no girlfriend on the horizon.

[JZer]

Moonraven once posted:

[Gordon]

Is there a point to this thread?

[stillnosheep]

None whatsoever Gordon; nevertheless...

[JZer]

xeno means foreign, strange

Here is an example. John is a Canadian who is xenophobic. His company assigns him to work in Peru. When he moves to Peru he can still be xenophobic because he is affraid of what is strange or foreign. When we talk about John the Canadian that lives in Peru is xenophobic, the perspective of what is foreign is from the person or group of people that we are talking about. It does not matter whether the person or group of people that are xenophobic are the minority or majority in society since the other group of people are strange from their viewpoint of the observer.

John is xenophobic.

[JZer]

Here is the defintion of xenophobia from an etymological dictionary.

Xenophobia - "An Irrational Fear of Foreign or Strange Things." See "xen-" and "-phobia."

http://www.panikon.com/phurba/alteng/x.html

[denise]

[JZer]

[dyak]

Then clearly the last word should be, 'JZerphobia' - the very rational fear of reading sheer drivel and wasting valuable seconds of one's life.

[moonraven]

I second that.

Some people--especially 15 year-olds with zits and nothing to do but play with their....computers don't understand, or don't care to understand, that this is a forum for ESL professionals.

[Zero Hero]

Do ESL professionals resort to describing other posters as "15 year-olds with zits" who have "nothing to do but play with their....computers"?

What are the unprofessional ones like then?

The hardest person to be honest and candid with is the one in the mirror. Isn't that right, 'Moonraver'?