# Open letter to Kobal2 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 13, 2019, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-letter-to-kobal2/838608 "2019-08-13T15:59:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Steve\_McQwark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Steve\_McQwark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_McQwark)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2019, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-letter-to-kobal2/838608/1 "2019-08-13T15:59:56Z")
Dear Kobal2, You don’t know me, but I am a fan. And a hater. I come here for the LOLs and you are a rich source of them. This line from the pledge of allegiance thread: > [@Adults reciting the Pledge of Allegiance](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adults-reciting-the-pledge-of-allegiance/838286/35): > > Speaking as a non-US person : what, and I can’t stress this enough, the _fuck_?! almost cost me a spleen from laughing. But, at the same time, I also hate you because you are funnier in your second language (at least, maybe it’s your third or fourth, I don’t know everything about you - I’m a fan, not a fanatic) than I ever have been or ever will be in my first and only. Bastard. Warmest Regards, Steve McQwark ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2019, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-letter-to-kobal2/838608/2 "2019-08-13T16:40:54Z")
As a fellow non-US person, I want to express my total agreement with **Steve McQwark** regarding **Kobal2**. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2019, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-letter-to-kobal2/838608/3 "2019-08-13T16:49:51Z")
Yeah, if we had a like button, I’d have used it on a lot of his posts. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2019, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-letter-to-kobal2/838608/4 "2019-08-13T18:48:05Z")
Add me to the fanclub. Almost nobody at this board makes me laugh more often. As his fellow EUnian, I can almost always share his WTFs about the sometimes strange ways of the US… And he’s not only funny, but also very knowledgeable about history, so he’s perfect doper material. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2019, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-letter-to-kobal2/838608/5 "2019-08-13T22:02:55Z")
The only thing I don’t like is the way his perfect English reminds me of how perfect my French isn’t. Other than that, yeah, he’s a keeper. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2019, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-letter-to-kobal2/838608/6 "2019-08-13T22:20:01Z")
All any of you have done here is in service of encouraging that sort of behavior. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2019, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-letter-to-kobal2/838608/7 "2019-08-14T07:16:32Z")
Oh yes. Must not encourage the neighbor, wouldn’t want him to think he’s appreciated 😛 Won’t have lunch with me because I don’t drink, the bastard. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2019, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-letter-to-kobal2/838608/8 "2019-08-14T15:54:12Z")
Yeah, well, I just want to say that I saw him first, and he is totally one of my best friends on the planet, as you can see by checking my friends list full of other people I will never get to meet. Seriously, he’s one of the brightest lights here, in my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2019, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-letter-to-kobal2/838608/9 "2019-08-14T19:49:38Z")
I don’t know, can you really trust someone who puts a space before an exclamation point? More seriously, his and **Nava** ’s command of English is really amazing – I would never know it wasn’t their native language, except for the occasional weird gap in their knowledge of something pretty commonly known here in the USA. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-letter-to-kobal2/838608/10 "2019-08-20T17:55:06Z")
_hides redening cheeks behind hand_ You like me ! You really \*like \*me ! But fuckery aside, woah. I honestly don’t know what to say. Which is rare. Y’all stay right here, I’ll get drunk and tell you how much I loves you guys, you don’t even know. No, no, I mean I LOVE… No, you don’t… SHUT UP I’M TALKING HERE, I’m sayin’… what wuz I sayin’ ? > [@Nava](#): > > Won’t have lunch with me because I don’t drink, the bastard. Wait, you were actually serious about that ?! Well, shit. I’m sorry for real, now. Next time ? > [@RitterSport](#): > > I don’t know, can you really trust someone who puts a space before an exclamation point? Standard drilled French syntax I’m afraid. But at least I don’t ever put more than 1 exclamation point in a row. Them’s the ones you gotta watch. Axe murderers, the lot of 'em. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-letter-to-kobal2/838608/11 "2019-08-20T18:02:22Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > … > > Standard drilled French syntax I’m afraid. But at least I don’t ever put more than 1 exclamation point in a row. Them’s the ones you gotta watch. Axe murderers, the lot of 'em. I think you, **Nava** , and any other poster whose facility with English is better than mine should be required to post with an outrageous accent. “Multiple exclamation points ! Sacre bleu ! Zey are like zee, how you say, axe murderers ! Zees are zee ones you must watch. \” ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-letter-to-kobal2/838608/12 "2019-08-20T18:04:40Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > I think you, **Nava** , and any other poster whose facility with English is better than mine should be required to post with an outrageous accent. “Multiple exclamation points ! Sacre bleu ! Zey are like zee, how you say, axe murderers ! Zees are zee ones you must watch. \” Ah weel mehk zuh 'onest heffort, yes ? Is 'ow eet sed ? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-letter-to-kobal2/838608/13 "2019-08-20T18:20:21Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Ah weel mehk zuh 'onest heffort, yes ? Is 'ow eet sed ? 🙂 Zo long ass yew do naht faht in awhr generahl directshonn, wee shood be fahn, yes? ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-letter-to-kobal2/838608/14 "2019-08-20T18:21:14Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Ah weel mehk zuh 'onest heffort, yes ? Is 'ow eet sed ? 🙂 Jeez, you even do an outrageous French accent better than I do. Hey! I’m supposed to be mocking you, OK? Languages you speak better than I do, so far: English French Mock French