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Unread 03-03-2016, 11:04 AM   #1
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It seems pretty simple - if you don't like the way a person writes, click the back arrow and don't read it.
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Unread 03-03-2016, 11:21 AM   #2
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We're o.k. We have a great forum and if I said I haven't found a great deal more than once when someones add should have been more complete or written better, I would be lying for sure. Like the "Old Parker shotgun" that turned out to be a really nice GH 16 ga. 0 frame. Didn't buy it but I did educate the little old lady who decided to keep it for her grandson. Yea, I still wish I had that gun!
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It's all Nash Buckingham's fault! When he tried to paraphrase Horace Miller's black MS dialect so white folks could read it, the contractions, apostrophes, semi-colons and quotation marks 'went viral." Linguistic scholars are still trying to decipher it, and some in the modern age adapted the approach to outdoor vernaculars as their style of writing as well! Some actually post on this forum; missing/incomplete sentences are only part of the irritating milieu, as are intentionally crude grammatical presentations of random thoughts. Edgar, I feel your pain!
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Unread 03-03-2016, 06:24 PM   #4
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OK ! Im guilty and will never be perfect at anything !
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I think others, Samuel Clemens notably, were trying to paraphrase black dialect long before Nash Buckingham.
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But Nash did it better, with ducks and shotguns in the mix. About 55 or 60 years ago, I went through a bibliography of William Faulkner works to attempt to find something about the outdoor background of the famous author, and possibly a "quail connection". I didn't find such a connection, so used my reading time perusing other authors. It seemed a waste of time to read the extensive works of a Mississippi writer without birds. I'm not embarrassed to say that I have not yet read a Faulkner work cover to cover.
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bill you should at least read tom sawer and hukleberry finn...guaranteed to make you laugh...charlie
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Some the really great authors...well, you know they're really good because you can't read all the way through one of their books and you can't understand what they're saying.
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I've read War and Peace twice but could no read the gibberish Nash Buckingham wrote. If you could and enjoyed it, good for you!
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I don't understand it either, spoken or written.

But Mark, I can hear the Buckinghamites stirring and readying the tar and feathers.
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