HOW CAN A GUY BE SO DUM?????

This reply of yours does you no credit, and shows you up for what you are.

Selfish and deluded,

Nearly every English speaking child learns to read and write at school, and learns the basics of how to spell and pronounce the vast majority of English words so that the vast majority of other English speaking people may understand their written word, no matter how those words are pronounced from region to region.
It is language weirdos who come along and try to change things around, and these new fangled ways of doing things are often ill thought through and misguided.

The result is that I find your posts tiresome to read, and have it in my mind that in real life you must sound like a backwoods throwback.

If the words are spelt universally as we all know them, then we can pronounce them the way we wish to pronounce them in our heads as we read, according to the region on this planet that we are familiar with.

To have kiddy spelling rammed down our throats is pretty ridiculous to my mind. I have to semi translate what you write, and usually have it in mind that you are silly even before I've worked out what it is you are trying to say.

Which is a shame, because underneath all that idiocy, I think you have a reasonable brain trying to get out.

NO.


NO.


NO! New York fonetics!!!


Television will smooth it all out; it will be OK.





David

What you have to remember, Omsig, is that there's forʔee farsan fevvas orn a frisky frushis frote.

David revels in his childish conceits, you're wasting your time.

If I offered the same comment about u,
then u 'd accuse me of looking for a fight.

Tis troo dough.......oops....doe.

All of this has been explained to David over and over again, through the years. He's an attention whore, and he's gotten your attention. For pity's sake, he spells "they" as "thay" just in the hope of getting someone's goat.

Now that's funny. Can a red ribbon please be awarded to Alqa's post somehow?

When I read his posts, I always end up having the 'duelling banjos' soundtrack playing in my head.

Elegantly sed, er said.

People can get incipient Alzheimer's even if they're smart. Doubt me? Then look up the life of Iris Murdock.

Plus sometimes they get Alzheimer's or dementia earlier than most of us would expect.

The idea behind the Nigerian Prince scam (and the like) is to build a list of suckers. The more outlandish the exercise, the better, as anyone who falls for that will believe anything. Not only are these folks looking to get the victims personally, they are also in the business of selling sucker lists to others.

It's reprehensible but it is counterproductive to poke fun at the victims and call them stupid, etc. It's unkind. These people screwed up. They are certainly getting enough grief with identity theft and the like. No sense in piling on.

Towards the end of my Mum's life, I took over the duty of posting all of her letters, many of which contained cheques to such slime as supposed representatives of the Irish Lottery, telling her that for a £20 fee, they would process her win of £5000.

At the beginning I used to argue with her, trying to get her to see that these were a scam, but the dementia was really getting in to gear and as soon as I'd gone, she'd be sending off the cheques again.
I then spoke to all her neighbours and friends, and we arranged for all her mail to be posted by me or my brothers if they were on the scene.

I probably stopped about £2000 in cheques being sent over the following year.

In her prime, she was a highly intelligent nurse who was one shrewd cookie.

The slime who prey on these unfortunate people should be put away for a very long time.

Exactly. If hell exists, I hope they have a special place for the scum who prey on the elderly, the infirm, the mentally disabled, etc.

Sadly, I guess, hell does not exist. The best we can hope for is the proverbial "life before their lives" to take place. Of course, no one but David could could explain such. That is, if we are dum enough to fall for it.

Sorry to have rambled on.
Time for cawfee, I guess.

Perhaps Alqa had not realized the OP was intended as satire.

Oh. . . .

I do feel guilty for stirring **** up. Though the real irony is a person w/ a name like mine in this forum calling that out.
I wrote it for comical effect, but I didn't expect it to take a turn for the worse as it did.

dum is the spelling of an Arabic percussion stroke - pronounced doom

(another reason to be entertained rather than enlightened by any of omsig's posts)

dum dum tak dum tak

(aka doom doom tuck doom tuck)

I wouldn't worry about it, Al.

This is about the umpteenth time this subject has been aired with Omsig.

Psssst....I think he loves the attention of it all.

you do realize that on American television they try to sound like people living in central Canada - a truly boring nearly unaccented version of English

I get somehing duller, more ponderous . . . something lugubrious . . .