Opinion of Obamanation (D-CA)

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Happy he is gone.

[Torie]

Amen, opebo.....this incarnation of the  poster was a good one, in my view.  Now he's been sent to oblivion.  

First you complain Grumps about "the slows," in wielding the ax,  and now you complain about doing it at all - just toss the rules in the dustbin. How does one make you happy?  How does your wife manage to make you happy come to think of it?  Perhaps she could give me a call to give me some pointers. Sbane has my phone number.

Have a good weekend. At the moment I am in pain from falling face down in the shower on the hard tile yesterday morning - a glimpse of my future given by the grim reaper just to torture me. At least the THC has a "medicinal" purpose now for a bit.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

My disdain is simple, old man.  Rid us early without fanfare if he's that bad, but when he's an established good poster, as he was, let him be.

[Torie]

Thanks for the clarification. That won't be happening however.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Thanks for the clarification. That won't be happening however.

That is said, and you're most welcome.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Mondale sock or someone else?

[Antonio the Sixth]

A sock? Weird, he spoke authentic Italian.

Before someone brings it up... no, he wasn't my sock.

[Mr. Morden]

Mondale sock or someone else?

Mondale.

It was actually discovered about a week ago, but Nym has been really busy, and didn't have a chance to read the discussion thread on it on the mod board until last night.

[Donerail]

A sock? Weird, he spoke authentic Italian.

We have lots of trolls and altogether unusual characters who speak Italian.

[fezzyfestoon]

Pretty annoying, whoever he is.

[Sopranos Republican]

A sock? Weird, he spoke authentic Italian.

Before someone brings it up... no, he wasn't my sock.

But he could have just been copying and pasting what you said into google translate and converting from Italian to English, and then doing the opposite to respond.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

A sock? Weird, he spoke authentic Italian.

Before someone brings it up... no, he wasn't my sock.

But he could have just been copying and pasting what you said into google translate and converting from Italian to English, and then doing the opposite to respond.

I would think a native speaker, particularly one who's also multilingual like Antonio, would usually be able to tell whether text in a given language is from Google Translate or not.

[Sopranos Republican]

A sock? Weird, he spoke authentic Italian.

Before someone brings it up... no, he wasn't my sock.

But he could have just been copying and pasting what you said into google translate and converting from Italian to English, and then doing the opposite to respond.

I would think a native speaker, particularly one who's also multilingual like Antonio, would usually be able to tell whether text in a given language is from Google Translate or not.

Just a possibility, as it is a bit harder to tell on the Internet then in person. Who is he a sock of, anyway?

[Antonio the Sixth]

Got back to that discussion, and noticed a further sign of authenticity:

Milan, Italy.

Sei Italiano? Piacere di conoscerti!

Si, sono nato a Milano e ho vissuto li per undic'anni. Adesso abito negli USA, ovviamente

This way of writing "eleven years" indicates that it wasn't translated. An automatic translator would certainly have come up with undici anni, which is the technically correct spenning. The spelling undic'anni is directly derived from oral Italian, since the pronunciation leads to obliterating the "i" and pronouncing it as a collective "undicianni" ("ci"  followed by another vowel produces the sound that in English is pronounced by "ch"). Bottom line: google translate couldn't have come up with that.

[Sbane]

So do we know whether Mondale84 knew how to speak Italian or not?

[Sopranos Republican]

Got back to that discussion, and noticed a further sign of authenticity:

Milan, Italy.

Sei Italiano? Piacere di conoscerti!

Si, sono nato a Milano e ho vissuto li per undic'anni. Adesso abito negli USA, ovviamente

This way of writing "eleven years" indicates that it wasn't translated. An automatic translator would certainly have come up with undici anni, which is the technically correct spenning. The spelling undic'anni is directly derived from oral Italian, since the pronunciation leads to obliterating the "i" and pronouncing it as a collective "undicianni" ("ci"  followed by another vowel produces the sound that in English is pronounced by "ch"). Bottom line: google translate couldn't have come up with that.

Ah, okay sorry I don't speak Italian. I may learn sometime as I'm Italian, (my grandfather's parents on my mother's side were born in Italy.)

So do we know whether Mondale84 knew how to speak Italian or not?

That's what I'm wondering.

[dead0man]

My disdain is simple, old man.  Rid us early without fanfare if he's that bad, but when he's an established good poster, as he was, let him be.

wtf are you talking about?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I'm not surprised he was a sock, since it's pretty hard to imagine someone with all of his collection of views actually existing in real life.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I'm not surprised he was a sock, since it's pretty hard to imagine someone with all of his collection of views actually existing in real life.

It's not hard for me to imagine, but Great-Aunt Frances died a few years back.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I'm not surprised he was a sock, since it's pretty hard to imagine someone with all of his collection of views actually existing in real life.

It's not hard for me to imagine, but Great-Aunt Frances died a few years back.

Your great aunt obviously wasn't 30 years old, and probably didn't live in San Francisco.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I'm not surprised he was a sock, since it's pretty hard to imagine someone with all of his collection of views actually existing in real life.

It's not hard for me to imagine, but Great-Aunt Frances died a few years back.

Your great aunt obviously wasn't 30 years old, and probably didn't live in San Francisco.

Lived to 86 and died at home in East Longmeadow. Point taken.

[opebo]

Yeah, I'm not entirely sure who decided that caring about socks was so important.

It is a control strategy.  Anyone can be accused, and there is no way to defend against it. 

Most bannings are illegitimate anyway

Amen brother.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

My disdain is simple, old man.  Rid us early without fanfare if he's that bad, but when he's an established good poster, as he was, let him be.

wtf are you talking about?

He had almost 500 posts and wasn't as annoying as half the newbies around here, deadlyman.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

So there's more than one racist monarchist liberal out there?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

So there's more than one racist monarchist liberal out there?

And also a partisan heirarchy-defending Catholic despite being a 30-year old Democrat from San Francisco AND a staunch supporter of the British monarchy.