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Offline Jinxy

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Re: lol - what does this mean?????
« Reply #27 on: Friday 07 November 08 07:17 GMT (UK) »
Live and let live.

Variety is the spice of life.

Hope proverbs are not vetoed. :)
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Re: lol - what does this mean?????
« Reply #28 on: Friday 07 November 08 12:44 GMT (UK) »
I think Gadget has said it all.  If people want lookups, it's only polite for them to write in clear English and not to use "text" speak.

 


Hear hear!

It's not to say I would refuse to help or to read them, but the more clearly someone sets out what they're looking for, the more likely I am to read it, and hence - if I can - help.

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London & Huntingdonshire: Freeman
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Re: lol - what does this mean?????
« Reply #29 on: Friday 07 November 08 15:54 GMT (UK) »
mapala ndmeo aftinsende acho ther emailsin phone tics pell ingand int hes cotsdia lect.

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Re: lol - what does this mean?????
« Reply #30 on: Friday 07 November 08 15:56 GMT (UK) »
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mapala ndmeo aftinsende acho ther emailsin phone tics pell ingand int hes cotsdia lect.

And the English translation is????
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Re: lol - what does this mean?????
« Reply #31 on: Friday 07 November 08 15:59 GMT (UK) »
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mapala ndmeo aftinsende acho ther emailsin phone tics pell ingand int hes cotsdia lect.

And the English translation is????

My pal and me often send each other emails in phonetic spelling and in the scots dialect
 

Should I get a job as a translator

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Re: lol - what does this mean?????
« Reply #32 on: Friday 07 November 08 16:08 GMT (UK) »
mapala ndmeo aftinsende acho ther emailsin phone tics pell ingand int hes cotsdia lect.



I also have a friend who writes exactly the same, but never could understand the Scots :)
LANCASHIRE = Wood,Howard,,Smethurst,Foxall,Cheetham,Brookes,Grime, Horrocks,Thornley,Arstall,Shawcross,Rowland,Mclean LINCOLNSHIRE = Featherstone Johnson,Toyne,Willson,

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Re: lol - what does this mean?????
« Reply #33 on: Friday 07 November 08 16:13 GMT (UK) »
10 Brownie points to Gadget .     ;)
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Re: lol - what does this mean?????
« Reply #34 on: Friday 07 November 08 16:17 GMT (UK) »
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Should I get a job as a translator


If Fergie ever posts a lookup request in his quaint "dialect" then yes!!
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