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Yes.

The islanders of Lesbos recently went to court to keep homosexual women from using the name lesbian. The reason "lesbian" is used for gay women is due to the person Sapphos, who came from Lesbos, thus a Lesbian, and who was very big on defining women-love, or something like that.

So... they're suing the world for using a freaking word.

Wow.

That's like the United States suing everybody else on the continent for calling themselves "Americans."

You can't sue english for stealing words, that's what it does! It's in its nature!

Yeah. It's pretty stupid. However, as I noted to Sable, the Lesbians lost the court case.

Thanks again for your comments. Don't be surprised if I slip fixes into it without warning. Until the complete section is released, these are still somewhat fluid chapters, prone to little tweaks and alterations.

I'm still amazed that Keith hasn't fallen asleep, |D

It wouldn't work at all. The United states can't sue anybody, because they can't even begin to claim "American" as their own word, since everyone in North and South America are Americans.
But, I mean, it's just a bunch of states that are united. The United States can't really claim any word, since the U.S.A. doesn't have an actual name. I'm sorry, but if you can't come up with a name, you're not a real country. "Canadian" is for Canada (and bacon), "Brazilian" is for Brazil (and waxing), etc. but the U.S. doesn't have any proper defining word. Thus, the official name for the United States of America is now Yanktown, and it's residents are Yanks. I just named an entire country. Beat that.

I'm kidding, obviously. Or am I?

But yeah, that's where I first heard of the Island of Lesbos (sounds like such an awesome island); I think I heard it on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, but I could be wrong. It made me laugh. And then laugh again because I realized that if people starting to use the name of my hometown as a synonym for homos, I'd love it; it would amuse me to no end.

Would you believe I was going to switch that post around so everyone sued us? Bleh, I pay for my laziness.

It'd still be wrong, because the residents of the United States are Americans. Even if you weren't lazy, you still would have paid. This clearly teaches us that being lazy has no negative ramifications. Laze on, FastChapter, laze on.

I'm gonna bite you.

I'm gonna enjoy it.

OK, I looked through it, and I'm rather enjoying the reimagining of Twokinds you're sort of doing. It's fun.

I'm not the sort to give any real literary criticisim, That's up to Fastchapter and Sable I suppose. I'll just let you know that I will find you and kill you if you stop writing.

Damn, now I feel all important-like. :P