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Originally Posted By: Jackie
Olly! Did you not notice that you were dealt a deadly insult?? Or were you just using superhuman restraint? wink


I hope not by me, if so, it was unintentional.


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It wasn't you, Luke. It was tsuwm. He suggested that olly was from West Island.

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Oh, I see, thanks,
I see: Aussie as opposed to Kiwi. Thanks much.


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Originally Posted By: Faldage
It wasn't you, Luke. It was tsuwm. He suggested that olly was from West Island.


oy! I should be ignored for that transgression.

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Apparently the structurally perfect is not necessarily the most attractive.

Ha! You hit the nail! I like them all. And I'm going to steal from the thief.

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Here's a famous bit of European literature translated from the English into Esperanto. It starts at the bottom of the page.
Quote:
Ĉu esti aŭ ne esti, — tiel staras
Nun la demando : ĉu pli noble estas
Elporti ĉiujn batojn, ĉiujn sagojn
De la kolora, aŭ sin armi
Kontraŭ la tuta maro, da mizeroj
Kaj per la kontraŭstare ilin fini?
I like Zamenhof's punctuation.


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Quote:
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end

Tja, I'm sorry zmjezhd and Remus , it's not for a punctuation I admire Shakespeare's text. I took this from somewhere else. Often on those pages 'search book' I get totally lost.


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