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Holebender
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Idiot. That's directed at landg, as he seems to have difficulty figuring out who is being addressed by which remarks.
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landg
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davey neees to more specific, he just spoke about the ignorance and bigotry of lumping a whole group of people togther. as wholebender did with the uk.
waas it about lumping the uk or arabs/muslims together dvd? |
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Dave Coull
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"landg" wrote, about something I had written | Quote: | | i take it thats directed at holebender |
No, it wasn't. | landg wrote: | | he just jumped the wholeof the uk together |
Really? You surprise me. Holebender never struck me as a Unionist. But if Holebender did in fact make some such comment, I never noticed it, and I wasn't referring to anything he had said. | jamesieboy wrote: | | the Arab regimes (Iran is Persian with an Arab minority in the south) |
a comment which I considered potentially misleading, and I explained why I considered it potentially misleading. | landg wrote: | | davey neees to more specific, he just spoke about the ignorance and bigotry of lumping a whole group of people togther |
No, I didn't just speak "about the ignorance and bigotry of lumping a whole group of people togther". I gave specific examples. I wrote | Quote: | | it is both ignorant and racist to lump all arabs together, and it is both ignorant and bigoted to lump all muslims together. |
But, although, on this particular occasion, I was being specific, it's true that, as a general principle, I think it's a mistake to lump together people who may in fact be very different, and who may have very different views. For example, it's a mistake to make sweeping general statements about "protesteers". |
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landg
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| Dave Coull wrote: | "landg" wrote, about something I had written | Quote: | | i take it thats directed at holebender |
No, it wasn't. | landg wrote: | | he just jumped the wholeof the uk together |
Really? You surprise me. Holebender never struck me as a Unionist. But if Holebender did in fact make some such comment, I never noticed it, and I wasn't referring to anything he had said. | jamesieboy wrote: | | the Arab regimes (Iran is Persian with an Arab minority in the south) |
a comment which I considered potentially misleading, and I explained why I considered it potentially misleading. | landg wrote: | | davey neees to more specific, he just spoke about the ignorance and bigotry of lumping a whole group of people togther |
No, I didn't just speak "about the ignorance and bigotry of lumping a whole group of people togther". I gave specific examples. I wrote | Quote: | | it is both ignorant and racist to lump all arabs together, and it is both ignorant and bigoted to lump all muslims together. |
But, although, on this particular occasion, I was being specific, it's true that, as a general principle, I think it's a mistake to lump together people who may in fact be very different, and who may have very different views. For example, it's a mistake to make sweeping general statements about "protesteers". |
or the UK?.................
specififcs daved, specifics and it gives an excuse to make your posts even more exhausting. i'll probably regret saying that nwo. |
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Dave Coull
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| landg wrote: | | or the UK?.................specififcs daved |
I realise expressing yourself in English is difficult, with Gibberish being your first language, but, if you would care to re-phrase that as a question which makes some sense, I will try to answer. |
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landg
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| Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Dave Coull wrote: | | landg wrote: | | or the UK?.................specififcs daved |
I realise expressing yourself in English is difficult, with Gibberish being your first language, but, if you would care to re-phrase that as a question which makes some sense, I will try to answer. |
you, the man who was happy to be interviewd by the NOTW, is getting all pompous and grammar and spelling.
daved, your irnoy and waffle know's no bounds. |
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| Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:28 pm Post subject: |
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| landg wrote: | happy to be interviewd by the NOTW, is getting all pompous and grammar and spelling.
daved, your irnoy and waffle know's no bounds. |
It would be amusing if it weren't for the fact that, based on previous posts, this could well be a normal landg sentence.
Of course, certain substances could lie at the heart of this innovative spelling/grammatical form landg is developing.
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It would be amusing if it weren't for the fact that... |
"wasn't".  |
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Dave Coull
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| landg wrote: | | or the UK?.................specififcs daved |
and since, despite using a question mark, "landg" had forgotten to actually ask a question, I wrote | Quote: | | if you would care to re-phrase that as a question which makes some sense, I will try to answer. |
It turns out "landg" didn't really have a question about the subject of this thread, nor about any related topic, he just wanted to have a "go" at me personally | landg wrote: | | happy to be interviewd by the NOTW |
Even the NOTW said I wasn't happy about talking to them, that was about the only thing they got right. Not one single thing they "quoted" was something I actually said, they just made it up. However, lifting ourselves back up out of the gutter, it is ridiculously inaccurate to count Iran as an "Arab" country; it is both ignorant and racist to lump all Arabs together; and it is both ignorant and bigoted to lump all muslims together. That makes about as much sense as saying "Christians are......." and basing what you've got to say about Christians on what you once saw at an Old Firm match. As a general principle, I think it's a mistake to lump together people who may in fact be very different, and who may have very different views. |
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| Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Stevie wrote: | | It would be amusing if it weren't for the fact that... |
There's no need to correct Stevie, Fidget, he was using inversion of a conditional tense of the verb "to be" in a conditional sentence. The BBC "Learning English" programme gives, as an example of correct usage, "Were it not for your kindness, I'd still be living in that tiny bed-sit in the town centre". |
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Fidget
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| Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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| "Weren't" was wrong. |
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Dave Coull
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| Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Fidget wrote: | | "Weren't" was wrong. |
Okay maybe it was. I don't think it's worth arguing over. Regardless of whether what Stevie said was grammatically correct or not, at least it was coherent. There are some advantages to staying off the drugs. |
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Fidget, 'wasn't' is typical spoken English, not correct English in the written language (or spoken either for that matter). It's correct to use the preterit modal form of the verb when employed in a conditional sentence expressing a possibility or a desire (etc...).
e.g. If I were you, I'd read again Dave's explanation of the conditional mode in English grammar.
It's probably best not to try and correct an English teacher's grammar if you're a tad unsure yourself.
However, there is hope. I can recommend books to get you started, 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' and since it's Halloween, 'Meg and Mog'.
Actually, one doesn't usually comment on silly typos and this and that spelling error but as I said landg has a history of impenetrable posts that he swears gives him 'power'.
How 'power' can be equated with entirely incoherent sentences remains to be seen.
He fidgetith here, he fidgetith there, he fidgetith almost everywhere.
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Holebender
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| Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:51 pm Post subject: |
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| landg wrote: | davey neees to more specific, he just spoke about the ignorance and bigotry of lumping a whole group of people togther. as wholebender did with the uk.
waas it about lumping the uk or arabs/muslims together dvd? |
Alright, I've let this go on long enough; tell us where I am alleged to have committed this heinous crime. Let's see a quote, tell us the thread, chapter and verse.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:01 am Post subject: |
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Careful now, you might not understand his answer.
He's got the power.
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Holebender
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I don't understand the allegation, so it'll be no great loss if I don't understand the response. An answer is probably too much to hope for.
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I believe a supercomputer is busy designing another supercomputer to one day translate the mysticism that is landg's powerful answers into a form that lesser mortals can perhaps comprehend... but it's by no means certain that such an undertaking is possible.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 1:20 am Post subject: |
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| What was the question again? |
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magister ludi
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| Stevie wrote: |
However, there is hope. I can recommend books to get you started, 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' and since it's Halloween, 'Meg and Mog'. |
All of which reminds me of something Winnie the Pooh said:
My spelling is wobbly. It is good spelling but it wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. |
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| Dave Coull wrote: | | What was the question again? |
I'm afraid in order to understand the question we'll have to get the 2nd generation computer to design a 3rd and possibly even a 4th generation computer.
I suspect Winnie may have better written expression skills than landg or the grammatically challenged Fidget.
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