Dearest habib
I was never putting Edi down for his mastery of the english language or lack of
it.
I've always suspected ( and this was confirmed by a cousin/brother)that Edi is
in fact a very intelligent guy,and that all this stupid incoherent gibberish is
done intentionally, that's all, nothinhg more, nothing less. So i took it upon
myself to ask him to snap out of it:-)
I am no Sir Trevor McDonald, and there are countless occasons when i sent
postings to the L and realised i did not do any proof-reading or spell-
checking, but I always trust the intelligence of the readership to grasp what i
intended to write/say. One example being when i wrote "here are the names of
the prophet's closest allies and much more importantly where THEY WERE died and
buried" in my rsponse to,(I think it was Joe sambou) with regards to the
discussion on Bilal.
Thanx anyway
Manneh
Quoting Habib Ghanim <[log in to unmask]>:
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> <DIV></DIV>
> <P>Monsieurs Dave , Haruna et Sanyang,</P></DIV>
> <P>Please let us give brother Edi a break . </P></DIV>
> <P>Half a loaf is better than none. I commend him for trying and
> admitting his errors..</P>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <P>I can say that many of use need some brushing to do , including
> myself. Watch out the bambaras are my gorros! If brother Edi
> had a full academic year with (late )Father Little at SAHS he would have
> been speaking the perfect Queen's English or "akabilah".</P>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <P>"Aigah nga deh issie akabilah?" I wait for your response to see if
> you have passed the first course in " Banjul Ngongoh 101"</P>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <P>After all English is not his mother tongue.</P>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <P>Let's table this for now and see how we can help this brother
> improve.</P>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <P>Take care and best regards,</P>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <P>Habib Diab Ghanim</P>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <P>oops ! forgot the spell check!!</P>
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> <P> <BR><BR></P>
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> <DIV></DIV><BR><BR><BR>
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> <DIV>HDG </DIV>
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> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>>From: Dave Manneh <[log in to unmask]>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
> <[log in to unmask]>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>>To: [log in to unmask]
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>>Subject: Re: Re-Haruna Darbo
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>>Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 13:43:27 +0100
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>>Edi, perhaps you didn't understand what I wrote to you.
> The gist of it goes like
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>>this:- That you Edi I've been told, is one intelligent
> guy, who for some
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>>twisted reasoning of his thinks he will just write stupid
> sentences on the L.
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>>That was it my brother, nothing more nothing less.
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>>Perhaps if you copy and paste the email to the L, people
> might be kind enough to
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>>translate it into Bambaraa?TillBonka for you. I was not
> putting you down for
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>>your diction and syntax, but rather trying to tell you to
> stop being a joke and
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>>write english you are capable of writing,and stop being a
> twisted idiot. If you
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>>call that morally repugnant or hypocritical then you are
> even more twisted than
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>>i think.AND with that i end all communictions with you on
> this baseless ping-
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>>pong game.
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>>Good day to you
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>>Manneh
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>>Quoting Edi Sidibeh <[log in to unmask]>:
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> >
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> >
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV><BR><BR><BR>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> >
> <DIV></DIV>
> <H5><EM><U><FONT color=#336699>Better now than ever > cooperation
> and
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > understanding featuring better Gambia and
> willingness of her people to
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > commit intellectually<IMG height=12 DIV <>> >
> src="http://graphics.hotmail.com/emthup.gif"
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > width=12></FONT></U></EM></H5>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> >
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> >
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> >
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> >
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV><FONT face=Arial>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> >
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> >
> <DIV></DIV>
> <P align=justify>Thanks Mr professor Lamin Sayang who you "might be",
> I
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > don’t know, making me mixed you up with a well
> respected Lamin Sayang in
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > Finland which i really regret and sending my
> heartfelt apology to you
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > Lamin and wish you will understood my plea. It was
> really to my surprise
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > before writing the response seeing a bogus comment
> to my piece by
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > someone who was all along trying to pay back for my
> comments on his
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > remarks seconded by a similar name of a person I
> hardly see but respect
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > even though we are living in the same city. Though,
> we spoke on
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > telephone yesterday I still have to eat my words to
> you and vomit it on
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > this English professor Lamin Sayang of oxford or
> whereever graduate
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > instead of Helsinki University. From the bottom of
> my heart Mr Peter
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > Lamin Sayang of Helsinki, I am sorry. I could write
> you a privet mail
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > too but it went through public mail and from there
> it should be taken
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > back and give to whom it belongs not you decent
> cool brother.
> <DIV></DIV>
> <P></P>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> >
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> >
> <DIV></DIV>
> <P align=justify></P>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> >
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> >
> <DIV></DIV>
> <P align=justify>Whether you are trying to show your capabilities in
> the
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > language by changing my sentence, but I am very sad
> seeing a professor
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > like you correcting like this which university were
> you graduated? If my
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > Haruna does not understand my language and syntax,
> Your quotations and
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > syntax rearangement are even worst just read it. As
> well dave Manneh
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > wrote me a privet mail saying his brother some
> Lamin Manneh was reading
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > my mail during his visit to his place and think I
> could do better on my
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > syntax eros. I responded to him that, let the
> brother come on board to
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > show us both how to write English Language because
> Dave is not doing any
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > better in the language, reading his postings. I
> hate hypocrites and if
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > you think you can do better, be a man and do it on
> the net that put us
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > together than writing a privet mailrepugnantt shy
> in making mistakes
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > hence i was just talking of perfection in my
> previous postings. Some of
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > you people’s attitudes are morally repugnent and it
> should be clear to
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > you by now that i am not a pushover type. Your
> pyromania acts are
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > tasteless to decent people on the list.
> <DIV></DIV>
> <P></P>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> >
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> >
> <DIV></DIV>
> <P align=justify></P>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> >
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> >
> <DIV></DIV>
> <P align=justify> </P>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> >
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> >
> <DIV></DIV>
> <P align=justify>However, Mr Haruna, you have finnish drinking your
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > feverfew enabling you to master your syntax
> arrangement and correct use
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > of words in the dictionary. Will you please promise
> never to write
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > "Translational" instead of translation or
> translating ero. I told you
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > once that you are so honest but I wish you
> understood my meaning of
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > saying that. feel free and said whatever except
> insult or using hash
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > word like saying what the hell was I saying or
> writing, that response
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > will always be hell. If you need a civilise debate
> I am ever ready just
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > pick phrases I wrote and put me to task as i did to
> you earlier, showing
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > how honest you are. I am wasting my time to make
> you and your kind
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > thinkers that like is not as you think it is. Life
> is more than
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > selfishness. I will therefor continue to use my
> time in educating you.
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > In fact it will be a waste of time trying to
> educate you but instead I
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > am giving the to the people's interest in my
> beloved country. Have you
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > got a problem on that. Moreover, writing this does
> not have to take me
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > that long knowing were the keys are my friend. Of
> couse you will see a
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > lot of spelling mistakes and even syntax which
> should show you the fact
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > that I am not as perfect as you might think you
> are. You can call
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > me names but do not cross that boundry.
> <DIV></DIV>
> <P></P>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> >
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> >
> <DIV></DIV>
> <P align=justify></P>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> >
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> >
> <DIV></DIV>
> <P align=justify>You think you are doing more good by being a critic
> on
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > everyone’s piece that doesn’t flatly condemn the
> regim bach home, but
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > you know nothing and your cries will never prevail
> hence it is a selfish
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > cry. Once again Jammeh’s government is really doing
> fine despite the bad
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > human right record.
> <DIV></DIV>
> <P></P>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> >
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> >
> <DIV></DIV>
> <P align=justify></P><B><I>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> >
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> >
> <DIV></DIV>
> <P align=justify>Have you ever red the Winter’s heart by Robert
> Jordan?
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > Saying The wheel of time turns, and Ages come and
> go, Leaving memories
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even
> myth is long
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes
> again</B></I>. Do you
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > really think you and your comments have impacts on
> this government? Or
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > are you looking for credit to be proud of after
> wasting your time and
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > energy saying negative things only against the
> government with no
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > impacts whatsoever or are you building up hope to
> your people back home
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > that you have learn something? Well your strategy
> is not doing any good
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > here for someone to be proud of but yourself. I
> have seen your senseless
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > and putrid argument with others too and i can be
> punctilious too when i
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > choose to. You are not a stranger to that hence
> this was not our first
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > encounter.
> <DIV></DIV>
> <P></P>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> >
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> >
> <DIV></DIV>
> <P align=justify></P>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> >
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> >
> <DIV></DIV>
> <P align=justify>Since then, my brother, I stopped reading your pieces
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > but delete them unless they contain my name. Simply
> because, I am enough
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > with your selfish cry as many people i spoke with
> agreed. Well my
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > brother, you will hear more of me and if it border
> you, just bite your
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > nose. I have the same right as you do in this
> forum. Writing long pieces
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > doesn’t border you but their contents, as well as
> trying to pay back to
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > the headache on the home work i once gave you
> regarding your use of
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > words. I know I am not perfect but so are are
> too.
> <DIV></DIV>
> <P></P>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> >
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> >
> <DIV></DIV>
> <P align=justify></P>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> >
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> >
> <DIV></DIV>
> <P align=justify>Hence my contribution is once in a while not like
> yours
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > and i have work to do too. Moreover, I have the
> very right to say and
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > support whoever and say whatever in a civilise
> manner. Lover boy, if my
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > contribution hurt you or increase your migrain, be
> careful or see your
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > docters because it is going to come like rain and i
> wish you survive
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > from it.
> <DIV></DIV>
> <P></P>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> >
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> >
> <DIV></DIV>
> <P align=justify>edi </P></FONT><BR><BR><BR>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> >
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> >
> <DIV></DIV>
> <H5><EM><U><FONT color=#336699>Better now than ever > cooperation
> and
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > understanding featuring better Gambia and
> willingness of her people to
> <DIV></DIV>
> <DIV></DIV>> > commit intellectually<IMG height=12 DIV <>> >
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