Moratorium II

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.

Oooooooooooooooooooh!!! :astonished:

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!

Oh! Is that why folks always say rcordr?!

Carol

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

Sheesh!

Wo is I.

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

Jim lost!

:slight_smile:
(Put my nom in this spot…)

whistl
whisil
whisal
whisul
whisl
:confused:

Thy would b “co-flautists”

R.

Wouldn’t that be co-flatlntist? Sorry, I’m a flauter too. :smiley:

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. :stuck_out_tongue:

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

F*h.

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

Bah! All your dyslackadaisicism won’t rid you from my taunting, you kkknavy knnnigggits!

Taunt away, you clam-plucking Armorican gasbag.

What, why, when and how are you all talking abou*?

“What, why, at which chronological point, and how is this topic about?” might do.

(hint)

AH! Shades of Gadsby.

…and I can say this to you, for I know what I am talking about; for I was brought up in a pool of liquor!"

Ernest Vincent Wright