15 Jul 06 17:56, Russell Tiedt wrote to Dan Ceppa:

 RT> Hello Dan.

heh heh heh...I'm wondering if this is the best communication the russkies
have gotten from you... "? ? You dancing now ..." All pretty hard to
decipher, even for an English Major. Course I suppose, in your opinion, if
someone says more than two words, we're now grinding somebody else's
axe...[sigh]

 RT> 13 Jul 06 09:16, you wrote to me:

 RT>>>> choose which  one, eenie meenie mino moe ... 
 DC>>> Is that your method?

 RT>>> If it was, one or the other would have gotten support here ...

 DC>> Nice evasion.

 RT> ?

 RT>>>> Until there is a clear majority, wanting the same thing, there
 RT>>>> is bugger all  anyone can do.

 DC>>> Ever read a Russian novel?

 RT>>> No, have you ever read any Xhosa novels ...

 DC>> Another nice evasion.

 RT> ?

 RT>>>> be done one way or the other, but not all  ways, all at once ...
 RT>>>> , round here that is called an "abortion" ...

 DC>>> See my comment just above about Russian novels.

 RT>>> Same as above ... , ...

 DC>> Yep, nothing but another side-step by you.

 RT> You dancing now ...

 DC>>> What is quite unreadable even in translation makes perfect
 DC>>> sense to them.

 RT>>> Well, as long as it makes sense to them, and they lack the
 RT>>> ability to translate it for the rest of the world including us,
 RT>>> they are not

 DC>> Is that anything like the kaffirs in your country that don't
 DC>> speak proper English?

 RT> You mean the American's

 RT>>> COMMUNICATING, not with the rest of the world, and not with us.
 RT>>> And we are not  going to learn Russian, nor are we going to study
 RT>>> Russian novel "authouring"  nor are we going to
take a course in
 RT>>> Russian culutre, sub-cultures, etc.

 DC>> That's not even close to the point.  If fact, your entire argument
 DC>> above is the antithesis as to why FIDO was ever conceived.

 RT> Oh ...

 RT>>> We have exactly one life to live, and not enough time to do what
 RT>>> we want to  do, never mind attempting to do, all or any of the
 RT>>> above. So either they learn  to communicate with us, or go their
 RT>>> own merry way. If we cannot undersand  them, there is no way we
 RT>>> can help them ... ,

 DC>> Strange....  They are working hard to understand English and
 DC>> the nuances.  And, what do they get in return on their
 DC>> culture?  As an example, just re-read what you wrote above.

 RT> Which culture ...

 RT>>> end of story ... , sorry, ...
 RT>>> That is how the cookie crumbles ...

 DC>> Just how many nodes are in your Zone?

 DC>> Other than you, how many of those nodes even bother to enter a
 DC>> message here?

 DC>> Now, tell me:  Why is driving out 100's of Russian nodes out
 DC>> of FIDO such a good idea?

 RT> What are you getting for grinding their axe ...?


 RT> Russell

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