pratchet bookz
MiKeY
r the pratchet bookz good? my bro says yeh but i dont trust him much
as he iz a lamerrr..... neway i want 2 no 4 sure b4 i read 1....
>>> MiKeY <<<
Richard Bos
You know what? I suggest you first learn to just read at all, before
trying to read something as hard as a Pratchett book. He's real tough,
you know - he even uses words of four syllables or more! Perhaps "See
Spot run" is more in your league? Then, when you can consistently spell
words of five letters without dropping one or accidentally using a digit
instead, you might want to graduate to something harder, for example
Mother Goose. This way, you will eventually be able to read really
difficult books, like those of Mr. Pratchett. And when that glorious day
comes, we will be glad to tell you all about them, and maybe even
recommend one for you to start with.
Richard
Isabel Kunkle
Stevie D
> hey what is up
>
> r the pratchet bookz good? my bro says yeh but i dont trust him much
> as he iz a lamerrr..... neway i want 2 no 4 sure b4 i read 1....
You know what? That has to be just about the "lamest" question I've
ever seen asked - look at where you've posted this to - a newsgroup
with "Fan" and "Pratchett" in its title - what do you think we are
going to say about them?!
By the way, the books use words and sentences, not txt msg lngg, so
you might want to brush up on your reading skills before you try,
--
Stevie D
\\\\\ ///// Bringing dating agencies to the
\\\\\\\__X__/////// common hedgehog since 2001 - "HedgeHugs"
___\\\\\\\'/ \'///////_____________________________________________
Richard Bos
> Richard Bos <in...@hoekstra-uitgeverij.nl> wrote in message
> news:3c14d4f6...@news.tiscali.nl...
> > You know what? I suggest you first learn to just read at all, before
> > trying to read something as hard as a Pratchett book. He's real tough,
> > you know - he even uses words of four syllables or more! Perhaps "See
> > Spot run" is more in your league? Then, when you can consistently spell
> > words of five letters without dropping one or accidentally using a digit
> > instead, you might want to graduate to something harder, for example
> > Mother Goose. This way, you will eventually be able to read really
> > difficult books, like those of Mr. Pratchett. And when that glorious day
> > comes, we will be glad to tell you all about them, and maybe even
> > recommend one for you to start with.
>
> WYMM?
For just that? No. Just for that, I am not worth a proposal, not even a
WYMM. Sorry, but one has to have _some_ standards, you know.
Richard
gra...@affordable-leather.co.ukdeletethis
On 10 Dec 2001 07:17:50 -0800, mikey1234...@yahoo.com (MiKeY)
wrote:
I'm sorry, but I think you're trying too hard to troll here.
Let's look at the evidence: we have a yahoo address, posted through
google, written in m0r0N tXt and being clearly inflammatory...
All you missed was an AOL connection.
Cheers,
Graham.
phobos
Aww, don't be too hard on him... it's his first usenet post. He
probably thinks everyone talks like that here, only having encountered
internet culture before from bad newspaper articles about evil
hackers...
MiKeY
2 read and also write poems. u can read 1 or 2 on my webstie...
www.geocities.com/mikey12345678_uk_2k
>>> MiKeY <<<
in...@hoekstra-uitgeverij.nl (Richard Bos) wrote in message news:<3c14d4f6...@news.tiscali.nl>...
Tim Cain
Speaker-to-Customers
"MiKeY" wrote ...
> hey i didnt mean 2 offend ne of the ppl on this site with my q. i like
> 2 read and also write poems. u can read 1 or 2 on my webstie...
>
> www.geocities.com/mikey12345678_uk_2k
Yes, the Pratchett books are good. However the people on this newsgroup
don't like to talk about them.
I would suggest you start with "Only You Can Save Mankind". The central
character is a 14-year-old boy who plays computer games. It was written
several years ago, so we are not talking Quake III ; this is back in ancient
times even before "Tomb Raider". However, you should get the general idea.
If you can cope with that, the sequels "Johnny and the Dead" and "Johnny and
the Bomb" are also good reads for younger teenagers.
I apologise if you are really an adult; but use of "doodz" style
abbreviations and lack of punctuation, in a post to a literary newsgroup,
inevitably gives the impression that you are a 13-year-old with a low
reading age, the social skills of a Tasmanian Devil, and no friends.
Your poetry is passable; about the same standard as Slipknot lyrics. You
have a very long way to go before you reach the level of Limp Bizkit or OPM.
If you read all Terry Pratchett's adult books, and your language skills
improve accordingly, you might reach the level of Sum 41 or Blink 182 by
about 2012.
Paul Speaker-to-Customers
--
"Bother!" said Pooh. "I'm booked for a Celebrity Deathmatch against the
Honey Monster".
StANTo
"MiKeY" <mikey1234...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:508ed5d.01121...@posting.google.com...
> hey i didnt mean 2 offend ne of the ppl on this site with my q. i like
> 2 read and also write poems. u can read 1 or 2 on my webstie...
>
Is there a language converter for those?
^_^
Michel
> http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/jargon.html#Lamer-speak
>
> Tim.
Ahhh, I thought it was rather cute ;-) little boy, a "lame bro" who likes
Pratchett, his first computer with internet, the poetry we all wrote when we
were young [1]. I felt all young again...though I didn't understand most he
wrote anyway...
Michel
[1] Or was it just me...
--
Gouwenees forever :-)
Warwick
mikey1234...@yahoo.com says...
> hey i didnt mean 2 offend ne of the ppl on this site with my q. i like
> 2 read and also write poems. u can read 1 or 2 on my webstie...
>
> www.geocities.com/mikey12345678_uk_2k
You know, you probably didn't want to post that URL here.
<fair use>
the first time that i saw ur face
i new my life was a waset
for u were beutiful and i
a wreck of a man who needed 2 die
</ fair use>
I seem to recall a few folk sitting in the late summer counting the
number of spelling mistakes and grammatical errors on a simple beer
bottle.
I shudder to think what they'd do to that page.
Warwick
Adrian Ogden
>In article <508ed5d.01121...@posting.google.com>,
>mikey1234...@yahoo.com says...
>> hey i didnt mean 2 offend ne of the ppl on this site with my q. i like
>> 2 read and also write poems. u can read 1 or 2 on my webstie...
>>
>> www.geocities.com/mikey12345678_uk_2k
>You know, you probably didn't want to post that URL here.
>I seem to recall a few folk sitting in the late summer counting the
>number of spelling mistakes and grammatical errors on a simple beer
>bottle.
>I shudder to think what they'd do to that page.
I shuddered just reading it.
Yet more proof that kids today don't know the difference between kewl
and illiter8.
--
<< Adrian Ogden -- "Sic Biscuitus Disintegrat" -- www.rdg.ac.uk/~sssogadr/ >>
"Nothing is as simple as it looks, except a chicken."
Ingvar Mattsson
[On possible language errors]
> I seem to recall a few folk sitting in the late summer counting the
> number of spelling mistakes and grammatical errors on a simple beer
> bottle.
>
> I shudder to think what they'd do to that page.
I was within a hair's width of taking you up on the challeneg, but I
noticed I left my industrial-strength linguistic chainsaw at home, so
I shall have to give it a miss.
//Ingvar
--
When C++ is your hammer, everything looks like a thumb
Latest seen from Steven M. Haflich, in c.l.l
Charles A Lieberman
<9v573h$3mr$1...@vins1.reading.ac.uk>
>Yet more proof that kids today don't know the difference between kewl
>and illiter8
When I first saw the subject line I expected an offer/request for
pirated Korgi and Colin Smyth editions of the books.
--
Charles A. Lieberman | "[A]pproximately 70% of the students at Stuyve-
Brooklyn, NY, USA | sant fit the description of a teenage homicidal
cali...@bigfoot.com | maniac" --letter, NY Post, April 28, 1999
http://calieber.tripod.com/home.html
CCA
>hey i didnt mean 2 offend ne of the ppl on this site with my q. i like
>2 read and also write poems. u can read 1 or 2 on my webstie...
(snip)
>(Richard Bos) wrote
>(MiKeY) wrote:
>>
>> > hey what is up
>> >
>> > r the pratchet bookz good?
(snip rest)
Text language *and* top-posting????
You really are trying to piss people off, aren't you?
CCA
phobos
> Warwick <use...@warwick.dnsalias.com> writes:
>
> >In article <508ed5d.01121...@posting.google.com>,
> >mikey1234...@yahoo.com says...
> >> hey i didnt mean 2 offend ne of the ppl on this site with my q. i like
> >> 2 read and also write poems. u can read 1 or 2 on my webstie...
> >>
> >> www.geocities.com/mikey12345678_uk_2k
>
> >You know, you probably didn't want to post that URL here.
>
> >I seem to recall a few folk sitting in the late summer counting the
> >number of spelling mistakes and grammatical errors on a simple beer
> >bottle.
>
> >I shudder to think what they'd do to that page.
>
> I shuddered just reading it.
>
> Yet more proof that kids today don't know the difference between kewl
> and illiter8.
Kids today? Since Google put up the really old USENET archives, I've
been getting first-hand experience of the hitherto mythical B1FF. This
doesn't seem to be anything new :-)
David Ferguson
"Adrian Ogden" <ssso...@reading.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:9v573h$3mr$1...@vins1.reading.ac.uk...
<snip>
> Yet more proof that kids today don't know the difference
>between kewl and illiter8.
>
Sig! Sig! May I?
David, S!E
David Chapman
> 2 read and also write poems. u can read 1 or 2 on my webstie...
u r ee cummings aicm5ukp.
--
While order does exist in the Universe,
it is not at all what we had in mind.
Adrian Ogden
>Sig! Sig! May I?
You may, you may...
:-)
--
<< Adrian Ogden -- "Sic Biscuitus Disintegrat" -- www.rdg.ac.uk/~sssogadr/ >>
"Get thee behind me, thou evil side-order of Lucifer!"
Illaparatzo-sama
that...
Richard Bos
> Yet more proof that kids today don't know the difference between kewl
> and illiter8.
There _is_ no difference between kewl and illiterate. You have to be
dense as Administratium to qualify for kewl. Being able to write
correctly means immediate disqualification.
Richard
Gurpreet Singh
I object - I'm a kid today and I certainly know the difference between kewl
and illiterate. For example: PTerry is kewl - and I don't thinks he's
illiterate.
I hate it when people use the term "Kids today" I don't want to be grouped
alongside many other kids (Mikey being an example [1]) but because I am
below the age of 16, I am considered to be similar to him.
1- this is purely using evidence I have seen from your posts to this
newsgroup, and from your website.
Melody S-K
"Gurpreet Singh" <Gurpree...@ukgateway.net> wrote in
message news:3c17a7aa$0$8509$cc9e...@news.dial.pipex.com...
SNippage
> I hate it when people use the term "Kids today" I don't
want to be grouped
> alongside many other kids (Mikey being an example [1]) but
because I am
> below the age of 16, I am considered to be similar to him.
Tough!
I was grouped in the *kids today* in 1970 when I was 15 , so
you can just
put up and shut up :)
Melody
--
Hey, if you cut off your foot, you wouldn't keep putting it
in your mouth, but your body wouldn't be the same, would it?
Gurpreet Singh
"Melody S-K" <Mel...@Wibble.org> wrote in message
news:9v89ai$df5pk$1...@ID-6544.news.dfncis.de...
>
>
> "Gurpreet Singh" <Gurpree...@ukgateway.net>
> wrote in
> message news:3c17a7aa$0
> $8509>$cc9e...@news.dial.pipex.com...
>
> SNippage
>
> > I hate it when people use the term "Kids today" I don't
> > want to be grouped
> > alongside many other kids (Mikey being an example [1]) > >but
> > because I am
> > below the age of 16, I am considered to be similar to
> > him.
>
> Tough!
>
> I was grouped in the *kids today* in 1970 when I was
> 15 , so
> you can just
> put up and shut up :)
>
And did you enjoy it? I take it from the form of your post that you didn't
enjoy it. Just because you suffered doesn't mean that I have to suffer as
well.....
I hate it when 'old people' take out the woes of their childhood on 'kids
today'...
Stevie D
> I object - I'm a kid today and I certainly know the difference between kewl
> and illiterate. For example: PTerry is kewl - and I don't thinks he's
> illiterate.
Bzzzt! You don't!
"Kewl" is not, *not*, _NOT_ the same as "cool". Kewl describes the
sort of person who thinks it is fun to write in "31!73 5ş3@<" (or
'elite speak', for those people having difficulty translating it. The
sort of people who, when confronted with another human being, will
ignore it if at all possible,
> I hate it when people use the term "Kids today" I don't want to be
> grouped alongside many other kids (Mikey being an example [1]) but
> because I am below the age of 16, I am considered to be similar to him.
Point taken. I suppose it mildly ironic that I find myself denouncing
the younger generations, which age 22 I am pretty sure includes
myself!
Melody S-K
"Gurpreet Singh" <Gurpree...@ukgateway.net> wrote in
message news:3c17aa88$0$234$cc9e...@news.dial.pipex.com...
"Melody S-K" <Mel...@Wibble.org> wrote in message
> news:9v89ai$df5pk$1...@ID-6544.news.dfncis.de...
"Gurpreet Singh" <Gurpree...@ukgateway.net>
> And did you enjoy it? I take it from the form of your post
that you didn't
> enjoy it. Just because you suffered doesn't mean that I
have to suffer as
> well.....
>
> I hate it when 'old people' take out the woes of their
childhood on 'kids
> today'...
Oh dear ...missed the smiley did you? It was meant in a
humerous way.
Never mind , maybe a sense of humour will develop by the
time you
are as old as me :)
Aquarion
> Gurpreet Singh wrote:
>
>> I object - I'm a kid today and I certainly know the difference between kewl
>> and illiterate. For example: PTerry is kewl - and I don't thinks he's
>> illiterate.
>
> Bzzzt! You don't!
>
> "Kewl" is not, *not*, _NOT_ the same as "cool". Kewl describes the
> sort of person who thinks it is fun to write in "31!73 5ş3@<"
Bzzzt! Not true!
Writing in 3|!73 5?3@|< can be fun.
It's those who *only* write in 'leet, and/or think it's kewl[1] to do
so who need to be avoided.
Yours in total sincerity
Aquarion
[1] Kewl's Excessivly Wonderful Links, part of the engine that drives
Aquarionics.com, along with Klide and Klind. And Albatross.
Eric Jarvis
>
> Point taken. I suppose it mildly ironic that I find myself denouncing
> the younger generations, which age 22 I am pretty sure includes
> myself!
>
damn right young feller me lad
<mode="acting my age">
you young people, quite extraordinary
</mode>
--
eric - afprelationships in headers
"money can't buy you love, but sometimes dinner
is much more important"
Gid Holyoake
generously decided to share with us..
Snippetry..
> Never mind , maybe a sense of humour will develop by the
> time you are as old as me :)
Hmmm.. is it possible for *anyone* to be as old as you dear?..
Gid
Harsh Sukthankar
hEY dunt mock illetericizm, man
I believe Mikey is a shining example to the rest of us teens. I am also in a
state of delirium. The two are in direct correlation.
Snip
Gid Holyoake
Sukthankar generously decided to share with us..
Snippetry..
> I believe Mikey is a shining example to the rest of us teens. I am also in a
> state of delirium. The two are in direct correlation.
You're also posting from home.com.. learn, teen, or find oblivion..
Gid
Harsh Sukthankar
"Gid Holyoake" <newsm...@brynamman.org.uk> spake
That's the last time home.com has shamed me. Can anyone tell me (if its
possible), how to remove that "Organization" thing from a message? The one
that appears in mine is virtually an advertisement.
Andrew Gray
<hjsukt...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > You're also posting from home.com.. learn, teen, or find oblivion..
> >
> > Gid
>
> That's the last time home.com has shamed me. Can anyone tell me (if its
> possible), how to remove that "Organization" thing from a message? The one
> that appears in mine is virtually an advertisement.
tools -> accounts -> [account name] -> properties... bingo
Or at least on this machine ;-)
BTW, it's not just the Organisation line that 'shamed you'...
Harsh Sukthankar
"Andrew Gray" <shim...@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
news:3c181353...@news.cableinet.co.uk...
Snipping
>
>
> tools -> accounts -> [account name] -> properties... bingo
I've tried it before, didn't seem to work. I'll post this again, and check.
>
> Or at least on this machine ;-)
>
> BTW, it's not just the Organisation line that 'shamed you'...
What else, then?
Harsh Sukthankar
Julia Jones
Sukthankar <hjsukt...@hotmail.com> writes
>That's the last time home.com has shamed me. Can anyone tell me (if its
>possible), how to remove that "Org