Dave

Joe Sambou and sisters like Jabou know this special Banjul vernacula , previlaged only to us Banjulians from Half Die esp.

Habib

HDG

>From: Dave Manneh <[log in to unmask]>

>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list <[log in to unmask]>

>To: [log in to unmask]

>Subject: Re: Re-Haruna Darbo

>Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 16:09:57 +0100

>"You did not respond to my question so that confirms that you are

> not an HalfDie ndongo! right"

>Nope, Habib am from Brufut Manneh Kunda and as such I would have to admit

>i really do not have a clue to what that is.

>Cheers

>Manneh

>Quoting Habib Ghanim <[log in to unmask]>:

> >

Brother Dave

> >

I know you always meant well and definately you were not trivalizing

> > Edi as you pointed. You are one of my stars on the L -fyi .I just wanted

> > to see how we can help him improve his English language

> > skills!

> >

. You did not respond to my question so that confirms that you are

> > not an HalfDie ndongo! right?

> >

Habib Diab Ghanim

> >

HDG

> >

>From: Dave Manneh <[log in to unmask]>

> >

>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list

> > <[log in to unmask]>

> >

>To: [log in to unmask]

> >

>Subject: Re: Re-Haruna Darbo

> >

>Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 15:53:19 +0100

> >

>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]>:

> >

Monsieurs Dave , Haruna et Sanyang,

> >

Please let us give brother Edi a break .

> >

Half a loaf is better than none. I commend him for trying and

> >

> > admitting his errors..

> >

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".

> >

"Aigah nga deh issie akabilah?" I wait for your response to see if

> >

> > you have passed the first course in " Banjul

> > Ngongoh 101"

> >

After all English is not his mother tongue.

> >

Let's table this for now and see how we can help this brother

> >

> > improve.

> >

Take care and best regards,

> >

Habib Diab Ghanim

> >

oops ! forgot the spell check!!

> >

HDG

> >

>From: Dave Manneh <[log in to unmask]>

> >

>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list

> >

> > <[log in to unmask]>

> >

>To: [log in to unmask]

> >

>Subject: Re: Re-Haruna Darbo

> >

>Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 13:43:27 +0100

> >

>Edi, perhaps you didn't understand what I wrote to you.

> >

> > The gist of it goes like

> >

>this:- That you Edi I've been told, is one intelligent

> >

> > guy, who for some

> >

>twisted reasoning of his thinks he will just write

> > stupid

> >

> > sentences on the L.

> >

>That was it my brother, nothing more nothing less.

> >

>Perhaps if you copy and paste the email to the L,

> > people

> >

> > might be kind enough to

> >

>translate it into Bambaraa?TillBonka for you. I was not

> >

> > putting you down for

> >

>your diction and syntax, but rather trying to tell you

> > to

> >

> > stop being a joke and

> >

>write english you are capable of writing,and stop being

> > a

> >

> > twisted idiot. If you

> >

>call that morally repugnant or hypocritical then you

> > are

> >

> > even more twisted than

> >

>i think.AND with that i end all communictions with you

> > on

> >

> > this baseless ping-

> >

>pong game.

> >

>Good day to you

> >

>Manneh

> >

>Quoting Edi Sidibeh <[log in to unmask]>:

> >

Better now than ever > cooperation
> >
> > and
> >
> >
> >

> >
> >
> >
> > understanding featuring better Gambia and
> >
> > willingness of her people to
> >
> >
> >

> >
> >
> >
> > commit intellectually>
> > >
> >
> > src="http://graphics.hotmail.com/emthup.gif"
> >
> >
> >

> >
> >
> >
> > width=12>

> >

Thanks Mr professor Lamin Sayang who you "might be",

> >

> > I

> >

> > don�t know, making me mixed you up with a well

> >

> > respected Lamin Sayang in

> >

> > Finland which i really regret and sending my

> >

> > heartfelt apology to you

> >

> > Lamin and wish you will understood my plea. It

> > was

> >

> > really to my surprise

> >

> > before writing the response seeing a bogus

> > comment

> >

> > to my piece by

> >

> > someone who was all along trying to pay back for

> > my

> >

> > comments on his

> >

> > remarks seconded by a similar name of a person I

> >

> > hardly see but respect

> >

> > even though we are living in the same city.

> > Though,

> >

> > we spoke on

> >

> > telephone yesterday I still have to eat my words

> > to

> >

> > you and vomit it on

> >

> > this English professor Lamin Sayang of oxford or

> >

> > whereever graduate

> >

> > instead of Helsinki University. From the bottom

> > of

> >

> > my heart Mr Peter

> >

> > Lamin Sayang of Helsinki, I am sorry. I could

> > write

> >

> > you a privet mail

> >

> > too but it went through public mail and from

> > there

> >

> > it should be taken

> >

> > back and give to whom it belongs not you decent

> >

> > cool brother.

> >

Whether you are trying to show your capabilities in

> >

> > the

> >

> > language by changing my sentence, but I am very

> > sad

> >

> > seeing a professor

> >

> > like you correcting like this which university

> > were

> >

> > you graduated? If my

> >

> > Haruna does not understand my language and

> > syntax,

> >

> > Your quotations and

> >

> > syntax rearangement are even worst just read it.

> > As

> >

> > well dave Manneh

> >

> > wrote me a privet mail saying his brother some

> >

> > Lamin Manneh was reading

> >

> > my mail during his visit to his place and think I

> >

> > could do better on my

> >

> > syntax eros. I responded to him that, let the

> >

> > brother come on board to

> >

> > show us both how to write English Language

> > because

> >

> > Dave is not doing any

> >

> > better in the language, reading his postings. I

> >

> > hate hypocrites and if

> >

> > you think you can do better, be a man and do it

> > on

> >

> > the net that put us

> >

> > together than writing a privet mailrepugnantt shy

> >

> > in making mistakes

> >

> > hence i was just talking of perfection in my

> >

> > previous postings. Some of

> >

> > you people�s attitudes are morally repugnent and

> > it

> >

> > should be clear to

> >

> > you by now that i am not a pushover type. Your

> >

> > pyromania acts are

> >

> > tasteless to decent people on the list.

> >

However, Mr Haruna, you have finnish drinking your

> >

> > feverfew enabling you to master your syntax

> >

> > arrangement and correct use

> >

> > of words in the dictionary. Will you please

> > promise

> >

> > never to write

> >

> > "Translational" instead of translation or

> >

> > translating ero. I told you

> >

> > once that you are so honest but I wish you

> >

> > understood my meaning of

> >

> > saying that. feel free and said whatever except

> >

> > insult or using hash

> >

> > word like saying what the hell was I saying or

> >

> > writing, that response

> >

> > will always be hell. If you need a civilise

> > debate

> >

> > I am ever ready just

> >

> > pick phrases I wrote and put me to task as i did

> > to

> >

> > you earlier, showing

> >

> > how honest you are. I am wasting my time to make

> >

> > you and your kind

> >

> > thinkers that like is not as you think it is.

> > Life

> >

> > is more than

> >

> > selfishness. I will therefor continue to use my

> >

> > time in educating you.

> >

> > In fact it will be a waste of time trying to

> >

> > educate you but instead I

> >

> > am giving the to the people's interest in my

> >

> > beloved country. Have you

> >

> > got a problem on that. Moreover, writing this

> > does

> >

> > not have to take me

> >

> > that long knowing were the keys are my friend. Of

> >

> > couse you will see a

> >

> > lot of spelling mistakes and even syntax which

> >

> > should show you the fact

> >

> > that I am not as perfect as you might think you

> >

> > are. You can call

> >

> > me names but do not cross that boundry.

> >

You think you are doing more good by being a critic

> >

> > on

> >

> > everyone�s piece that doesn�t flatly condemn the

> >

> > regim bach home, but

> >

> > you know nothing and your cries will never

> > prevail

> >

> > hence it is a selfish

> >

> > cry. Once again Jammeh�s government is really

> > doing

> >

> > fine despite the bad

> >

> > human right record.

> >

> >
> >
> >

> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >

> >
> >
> >

> >
> >
> >

> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >

> >
> >
> >
Have you ever red the Winter�s heart by Robert
> >
> > Jordan?
> >
> >
> >

> >
> >
> >
> > Saying The wheel of time turns, and Ages come and
> >
> > go, Leaving memories
> >
> >
> >

> >
> >
> >
> > that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and
> > even
> >
> > myth is long
> >
> >
> >

> >
> >
> >
> > forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes
> >
> > again. Do you

> >

> > really think you and your comments have impacts

> > on

> >

> > this government? Or

> >

> > are you looking for credit to be proud of after

> >

> > wasting your time and

> >

> > energy saying negative things only against the

> >

> > government with no

> >

> > impacts whatsoever or are you building up hope to

> >

> > your people back home

> >

> > that you have learn something? Well your strategy

> >

> > is not doing any good

> >

> > here for someone to be proud of but yourself. I

> >

> > have seen your senseless

> >

> > and putrid argument with others too and i can be

> >

> > punctilious too when i

> >

> > choose to. You are not a stranger to that hence

> >

> > this was not our first

> >

> > encounter.

> >

Since then, my brother, I stopped reading your pieces

> >

> > but delete them unless they contain my name.

> > Simply

> >

> > because, I am enough

> >

> > with your selfish cry as many people i spoke with

> >

> > agreed. Well my

> >

> > brother, you will hear more of me and if it

> > border

> >

> > you, just bite your

> >

> > nose. I have the same right as you do in this

> >

> > forum. Writing long pieces

> >

> > doesn�t border you but their contents, as well as

> >

> > trying to pay back to

> >

> > the headache on the home work i once gave you

> >

> > regarding your use of

> >

> > words. I know I am not perfect but so are are

> >

> > too.

> >

Hence my contribution is once in a while not like

> >

> > yours

> >

> > and i have work to do too. Moreover, I have the

> >

> > very right to say and

> >

> > support whoever and say whatever in a civilise

> >

> > manner. Lover boy, if my

> >

> > contribution hurt you or increase your migrain,

> > be

> >

> > careful or see your

> >

> > docters because it is going to come like rain and

> > i

> >

> > wish you survive

> >

> > from it.

> >

edi

> >

Better now than ever > cooperation
> >
> > and
> >
> >
> >

> >
> >
> >
> > understanding featuring better Gambia and
> >
> > willingness of her people to
> >
> >
> >

> >
> >
> >
> > commit intellectually>
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