Call for David to verify: D u understand me？

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Someone replied with this - "D u understand me?"
I know he's referring to "Do you understand me?"
But in your theory Dave, would "D u understand me?" stand? Should it be "Do u understand me?"

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@oristarA,

David's theory is predicated on the assuption everybody talks with a NYC accent. They don't.

I would write it as 'D'you understand me?' or 'Dya understand me?' depending on accent.

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@oristarA,

oristarA wrote:

Someone replied with this - "D u understand me?"
I know he's referring to "Do you understand me?"
But in your theory Dave, would "D u understand me?" stand? Should it be "Do u understand me?"

I 'd write it as u did: "Do u understand me?"
but I must admit that sometimes on the Internet,
I fool around, informally kidding,
including fonetic corruptions such as: "I wanna do thus n so"
or "I 'm gonna yadda, yadda, yadda" or "I dunno about that."

Sometimes, in a spirit of humor,
we do things that we shud not.

In your case, I 'd throw out a loose guess
that this was most likely only a typeografical error,
such that he accidentally failed to hit the letter key.

When I use fonetic spelling in your threads,
I feel a little guilty, in that I don t wish to get u into any trouble
in regard to spelling.

David

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@izzythepush,

izzythepush wrote:

David's theory is predicated on the assuption everybody talks with a NYC accent. They don't.

Thay SHUD. I hope u 'll help us out with that.

( I 'll call it even, for Lend Lease.)

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

Rolling in the aisles, that's what we are, rolling in the aisles.

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Thank you David.
Also thanks to others.

The pronunciations of three urban words remain unkown to me:

1) yadda /yædə/? ===>>> Yes?
2) typeografical /taipəugræfikəl/? ===>>> typo?
3) shud ===>>> should?

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We should translate all of the important American documents and songs into Davidite.

Wen en da corse uh uman eventz, it becums nessasurry 4 1 peepul 2
dee-tzou-ve tha political bandz.... .

"Uhmer reek ca, Uhmer, reek ca, gawd shed'is lite un thee... ."

Joe(c'mon, people, this is the future)Nation Very Happy

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@oristarA,

yada yada yada is a slang term that can mean a few things

It could be used when wanting to skip over (fast forward) a part of a conversation that isn't relevent, and you want to get to the point. As in "We went to dinner and had to wait forever for a table, then yada yada yada, when we got back out I had a parking ticket."

To indicate what someone was saying or doing was boring/useless etc.
"I saw Mary the other day and she just started in about her cousin in prison, and yada yada yada until I was finally able to get away by pretending I got a phone call.

A way of saying and so forth and so on. "you mix up part A with part B, and if C happens, you go on to D, and yada yada yada.

I'm sure there's other meanings too, but all in the same vein.

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@oristarA,

Yadda is usually used in pairs or triplicate, yadda yadda, means to go on and on, nothing but boring repetition. For example, the entirely predicable gun tired rants, the denziens of A2K must endure, every time Dave answers a question. Doesn't really matter what the topic is. It just guns, guns, more guns, yadda yadda yadda... ad nausea.
Typographical errors are pretty much the stock and trade of Dave's writing.
Shud is supposed to be should. Believe it or not.

Ori, really, there are a tons of examples you could use to improve your English rather than wasting your time trying to decipher Dave's steaming piles of bunk.

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@chai2,

Cool.
Thank you.
How to pronounce yadda?

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@oristarA,

oristarA wrote:

Cool.
Thank you.
How to pronounce yadda?

Like this....

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@Ceili,

Ceili wrote:

Yadda is usually used in pairs or triplicate, yadda yadda, means to go on and on, nothing but boring repetition. For example, the entirely predicable gun tired rants, the denziens of A2K must endure, every time Dave answers a question. Doesn't really matter what the topic is. It just guns, guns, more guns, yadda yadda yadda... ad nausea.
Typographical errors are pretty much the stock and trade of Dave's writing.

No. Definitionally, thay r accidental.
My efforts r very conscious and intentional.
I have had few genuine typos because I proofread
and I catch most of them.

My fonetic spelling is submitted in an effort
to show faster, easier, and better ways of spelling
that shud have been adopted several centuries ago,
but negligently, were not; better late than never.
I crave a paradigm shift.

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

Quote:

I crave a paradigm shift.

Did you intend to spell paradigm correctly vs the way you have spelled it in the past?

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@parados,

DAVID wrote:

I crave a paradigm shift.

parados wrote:

Did you intend to spell paradigm correctly vs the way you have spelled it in the past?

Sometimes it slips out.
I am accustomed to the paradigmatic way. Its not e z to change. Sorry.

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

So your efforts aren't very conscious. They are just random ramblings that allow spellings to be whatever slips out at that particular moment.

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@OmSigDAVID,

OmSigDAVID wrote:

izzythepush wrote:
David's theory is predicated on the assuption everybody talks with a NYC accent. They don't.
Thay SHUD. I hope u 'll help us out with that.

( I 'll call it even, for Lend Lease.)

That's what interest rates are for. What you're suggesting would mean your bank manager could knock on your door one day, long after you've paid off your mortgage, and insist you wear a blue dress and call yourself OmSigDelores for the next year, by way of a thank you.

Or is that what you really want?

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