Europe is a bad place - Page 2

11-03-2003, 02:30 PM

?ystein <> wrote:

    > Just because most posting of the weird kind (tm)
    > origns from an American, I have no substancial basis to presume this
    > guy is a "posting of the weird kind (tm)".

    > Notice: This is only to say that most "posting of the weird kind (tm)"
    > origns from Americans, not that most Americans do "posting of the
    > weird kind (tm) - they don't!

You'll excuse me for saying, but your post is the weirdest I've seen in a
month. Here's hoping you're eventually able to extricate yourself from your
mental tangle. Nex

11-03-2003, 05:49 PM

Charles Hawtrey wrote:
    >
    > (?ystein) staggered to the nearest keyboard
    > and wrote:
    >
    > > (Stan J. Lefosi) wrote in message news:<>...
    > >> Full of Arabs who may be suicide bombers and cry for Jihad.
    > >
    > >Haven't made up my mind wether is worst. The suiside bombers make more
    > >physical damage, but unike American news-posters they can not be
    > >operated remote. When it comes to the yelling their about the same
    >
    > Why did you immediately assume he's American? He's posting from a
    > Deutsche Telekom IP address.

Also, even given the fact that many of our younger American and British
posters have only a casual acquaintance with correct usage, his English
is not exactly fluent.

11-04-2003, 01:25 AM

Alan Pollock <> wrote:
    > ?ystein <> wrote:
    >> Just because most posting of the weird kind (tm)
    >> origns from an American, I have no substancial basis to presume this
    >> guy is a "posting of the weird kind (tm)".
    >> Notice: This is only to say that most "posting of the weird kind (tm)"
    >> origns from Americans, not that most Americans do "posting of the
    >> weird kind (tm) - they don't!
    > You'll excuse me for saying, but your post is the weirdest I've seen in a
    > month. Here's hoping you're eventually able to extricate yourself from your
    > mental tangle.

Tersely put, he says a small number of Americans make a large number of
weird postings.

miguel

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11-04-2003, 02:10 AM

Miguel Cruz <> wrote:
    > Alan Pollock <> wrote:
    > > ?ystein <> wrote:
    > >> Just because most posting of the weird kind (tm)
    > >> origns from an American, I have no substancial basis to presume this
    > >> guy is a "posting of the weird kind (tm)".
    > >>
    > >> Notice: This is only to say that most "posting of the weird kind (tm)"
    > >> origns from Americans, not that most Americans do "posting of the
    > >> weird kind (tm) - they don't!
    > >
    > > You'll excuse me for saying, but your post is the weirdest I've seen in a
    > > month. Here's hoping you're eventually able to extricate yourself from your
    > > mental tangle.

    > Tersely put, he says a small number of Americans make a large number of
    > weird postings.

He says it in a weird manner but doesn't justify calling the original post and
its ilk 'weird'.

I would say that this thread's original post was simply dumb. Nothing so
complex or even meritorious as 'weird'.

Sure, could be a language misunderstanding on oystein's part. But even apart
from that, his construction was fuzzy/strange and deserved to be called weird
because of its susprising awkwardness and redeeming content. Sometimes a heady
mix, sometimes not. Nex