Looks like some people have severe anger issues:

"Last time I checked, German was only taught to limp wristed college boys who couldn't think their way out of a wet paper sack."

It appears that the writer is envious of people who have gone to college (and probably high school, since German is taught in any decent high school)


"I realize you must have some form of mental diarreah that makes you obsessively try to prove to everyone how smart you are, but you're not."

If you wanted to prove to people how smart you are, why would you remain anonymous?

"who can't...discuss the topic at hand."

Talking about gender differences in words is the topic at hand. Pointing out that other languages do use completely different words to distinguish between male and female cousins makes the fact that English doesn't even more interesting, especially since English is so closely related to German.

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