Moratorium II

StevieJ · Post by **StevieJ** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 10:14 am

Pursuant to my last topic, I wish to call a moratorium on posts containing a particularly odious non-consonant - most common symbol in our script, in fact. I shall do my utmost to avoid this linguistic and typographical blight and I trust that many of my co-flutists will rally to my call.

Hardly an original notion, I know. A chap did, I am told, script a full book in which this disgusting mark did not occur. I want only to push his outstanding work forward. Work which, as you will soon grasp as you follow in his footprints, brings many a difficulty and many a thrill as you burrow far into our fair Anglo-Saxon idiom.

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 10:24 am

Oooooooooooooooooooh!!!

How did you do that? Amazing and stunning! I didn't think that a post of such bulk would work. Truly astonishing, and I say, "hat off" to you, Bro, for managing it!

carrie · Post by **carrie** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 10:26 am

Oh! Is that why folks always say r*cord*r?!

Carol

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 10:40 am

Putting a star mark in obvious positions is foul play.
Although many of you will not concur.

jim stone · Post by **jim stone** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 10:45 am

Sheesh!

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 11:02 am

Wo is I.

Jerry Freeman · Post by **Jerry Freeman** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 11:04 am

geek4music wrote:Putting a star mark in obvious positions is foul play.
Although many of you will not concur.

What's wrong with ast*risks?

Which reminds me of a word puzzle, better understood by English-speaking, rather than American-speaking, readers, I believe:

If the B mt, put :
If the B . putting :
Don't put : over a - der.
You'd be an * it.

Best wishes,
Jerry

Steven · Post by **Steven** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 12:58 pm

jim stone wrote:Sheesh!

Jim lost!

(Put my nom in this spot...)

Ridseard · Post by **Ridseard** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 1:50 pm

whistl
whisil
whisal
whisul
whisl

spittin_in_the_wind · Post by **spittin_in_the_wind** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 2:45 pm

StevieJ wrote: I trust that many of my co-flutists will rally to my call.

Th*y would b* "co-flautists"

R.

Lorenzo · Post by **Lorenzo** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 4:06 pm

Wouldn't that be co-flat*l*ntist? Sorry, I'm a flauter too.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 6:21 pm

This will probably stand as my only post on this topic, for, as a mighty fan of Anglo-Saxon idiom, I must (and without causing a conflagration, I pray) firmly stand in support of that poor non-consonant so crucial to our way of orthography.

Basically, it's just too dang tough to do without it. I must actually think about how I go about composing posts! I don't go for that at all. Thinking prior to posting? A galling notion, that. Bah. Bah, I say!

So, in short, I must turn my back on this moratorium as put to us by a man who has that symbol doubly in his own nick! Again, I say: bah.

E.

So there, StEvE.

sturob · Post by **sturob** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 7:33 pm

StevieJ wrote:Pursuant to my last topic, I wish to call a moratorium on posts containing a particularly odious non-consonant - most common symbol in our script, in fact.

I applaud your will to rid this board of tyrannical subjugation to that most odious of non-consonants.

Mayhap, folk such as I (quasi-linguist that I am) will follow you with posts worhty of your high standard.

Stuart

Post by **Nanohedron** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 7:50 pm

Post by **Nanohedron** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 7:53 pm

I think I'll just go off and play my flut.

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