That depends on what is in your first few posts. The number makes no difference.
And, can you see an example, an allegory, oh Great One, when you see it?
As for lies, I take stating of incomplete truth and half-facts as attempts to spread falsehood. Yes, it is about how you are contended just to lump all Christians as protestants and tried to get away with it with half-baked excuses like “I am not interested in it.”
And while you are in the host’s house, learn his rules.
Coldfire,
There is are words named “sarcasm” and there is a word like " black humour" and you can combine both while expressing yourself.
That is the intention of those posts you take for whatever you want to take them.
Like I said: people around here are amazingly good in seeking whatever they can imagine is a point for them to attack someone.
This makes them fail all over the line in building up contacts and conversations.
I’m not responsible for the behaviour of others. But when they take the liberty to single me out and play schoolkid games ( and YES, that is what it is to me and I’m free as a bird to take it like this and to consider them as completely immature the way they come across here) I respons in my own way.
I do not change myself or my way of looking at life for some members of a website who have problems with growing up.
If you don’t want me posting on this website, just say so here on the board. I’ll leave immediately. I don’t spend my time where I’m not appreciated for who I am.
Thank you.
Salaam.
Aldebaran.
I always enjoyed my brushes with novelty. Let me introduce you to aldebaran, king of the turds.
BTW, while I cannot claim novelty myself I once met a guy who was the cousin of the taylor who made the shirts for a guy who once met HRH princess Diana of Gales. Quite impressive.
We thought we had flushed him.
[sub]Yeppers. I’m using the “royal we”.[/sub]
Oops. Forgot the “salami.”
[Italian Dry] Salame.
Michæl Ellis
Aldebaran, I’m still curious about your reply to my question.
Is it that simple?
You are not appreciated for who you are.
Bye now.
Mommy can we keep him?
We’ll walk him every day and listen to his crackpot ramblings!
Aw, shucks blush. And I’m a she, Michael Ellis.
Let’s go with a different approach, shall we?
Adebaran, tell us about yourself. Where are you from, age, reason for posting, hobbies, etc.?
This will kill the thread.
Of course, an even bigger irony is that you use the phrase “Lingua Franca” and you’re refering to english!
Thanks for the kind words, RexDart, Mehitabel, and others. I beleive in being fair and just to everyone, not just folks on my team.
I’ve never understood the point of people who come here only to post, “I’m so clever, and the rest of you are all immature fools for not appreciating my genius.” Merely stating one’s superior intelligence, especially in broken English, tends only to confirm the converse impression that the poster is dumber than a box of rocks.
If Aldeberan is so frightfully clever, then why doesn’t he involve himself in a debate and bring reason, wit, and appropriate cites to back up his position? The test of true brilliance is not whether the poster claims to be intelligent, but that other posters say that he’s intelligent. TomnDebb, for example, has always assumed a modest attitude, posting only to bring up relevant facts to a debate. Yet, I’m certain that I’m not alone in thinking that he is an exceedingly well-informed and devastatingly intelligent man.
As far as I can tell, this thread has covered 6 pages without really being about any specific subject save the English pantomime dialogue of “I’m so bloody clever”/“Oh, no, you’re not.” Heck, I’m half tempted to shout, “Look out, Aldeberan, there’s a fire-breathing Moderator right behind you!”
Oh, well, he’s digging his own grave.
English is an exceptionally difficult language to learn, but not because of the number of words. One does not need a large vocabulary to have a functional knowledge of English. Instead, judging from my experience teaching ESL, the chief problem facing adult learners is that English has extremely idiosyncratic grammatical and spelling rules. Unlike, say, Korean or Russian, where once you learn to sound out the alphabet you can sight read unknown words with confidence, English orthography has so many rules and exceptions to those rules that sight reading becaomes a treacherous minefield for the unwary student. Moreover, English has so many irregular verbs, phrasal verbs and so on that a student inevitably makes errors in constructing sentences correctly.
This thread is way past being merely tedious now.
A troll by any other name still stinks.
Oh God… English the most difficult language?
I can’t stop laughing.
Ever tried Arabic, especially Classical Arabic?
Ever tried Japanese?
English is a langue I never studied, yet I am very well capable in expressing myself in it.
And your childish remark about “broken English” in sharp very shapr contrast with my experience on other boards, where people were convinced that I was an American “posign” as a foreigner. When I make grammar mistake and when the structure of my sentences isn’t coherent, that has to do with the fact that I’m dyslexic and not with the fact I didn’t study the language.
That is a very exceptional birthgift that keeps you awake, but nevertheless tends to take over whenever you get a bit tired and your full attention slips away. Or when you use different languages at the same time, as I do all the time when I’m in contact with people online.
Instead of trying to insult others you have no clue about, why don’t you hold back your infantile comments and try to come in contact with that unknown person?
My conclusion is that you are one of those persons who only feel secure and good about themselves when they can attack and look down on others in the safety of their home and hiding behind the anonymity of the online contact.
Probably you also think you that are the Genius Of The World. Well that can be, but in my opinion you miss the whole of humanity because of your arrogance.
Salaam.
Aldebaran.
Oh God… English the most difficult language?
I can’t stop laughing.
Ever tried Arabic, especially Classical Arabic?
Ever tried Japanese?
English is a language I never studied, yet I’m very well capable at expressing myself in it.
And your childish remark about “broken English” is in very sharp contrast with my experience on other boards, where people were convinced that I was an American “posing” as a foreigner.
When I make grammar mistakes and when the structure of my sentences isn’t coherent or my wording not clear, that has to do with the fact that I’m dyslexic and not with the fact I didn’t study the language.
Dyslexia is a very exceptional birthgift that keeps you awake, but nevertheless tends to take over whenever you get a bit tired and your full attention slips. Is happens also when you use different languages at the same time, as I do very often when I’m in contact with people online.
Instead of trying to insult others you have no clue about, why don’t you hold back your infantile comments and try to come in contact with that unknown person?
My conclusion is that you are one of those persons who only feel secure and good about themselves when they can attack and look down on others in the safety of their home and hiding behind the anonymity of the online contact.
Probably you also think you that are the Genius Of The World. Well that can be, but in my opinion you miss the whole of humanity because of your arrogance.
Salaam.
Aldebaran.
Sorry for the double post, I was correcting in preview and must have hit a wrong button.
Read only the last one.
The Gaspode,
Well I think this isn’t exactly the right place to elaborate on that… 
Salaam.
Aldebaran.
The Gaspode, and Blonde,
Well I think this isn’t exactly the right place to elaborate on those issues…
Salaam.
Aldebaran.
Alde, I was just about to give you kudos for letting this thread die and having the good sense to walk away from it.
However…
Seriously, cut bait.
I know, Iknow… But for me it is always hard to resist seductions…Especially the ones that are bad…I’m a hopeless case