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Old 07-14-2008, 02:37 AM   #51
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Can you tell me where my exposures are not very comprehensible to a reader english speaking, and, if possible, suggest me an alternative form? ... Tanks in advance!
Can you tell me where my expositions are not very comprehensible to an english speaking reader, and, if possible, suggest an alternative form to me? ... Thanks in advance.
OK!....Thanks You! The last error it is a merely a spelling error...excuse me

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But the mods will not allow this to continue for long ...
What does it means?.... Do you think I should abstain from posting in this forum?

But...this is not a problem for me... There are many forums in english language on Web...


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But the mods will not allow this to continue for long ...
What does it means?.... Do you think I should abstain from posting in this forum?
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It is not for me to make such a decision. Personally, I have found your posts delightful, as I think I may have stated previously. However, I have a particularly 'witty' form of humour, not necessarily shared by others.

It is fair to say, that you are often difficult to understand and sometimes downright obscure. That is an unfortunate characteristic, given that the subject matter (BC&H) is often inherently 'difficult to understand and downright obscure'.

Might I suggest that you attempt to phrase your thoughts in simpler language. That way you will likely express yourself more accurately and we shall understand more clearly. As time goes on ...
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Old 07-14-2008, 04:22 AM   #53
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I do not think Littlejohn's posts are too difficult to read.

As long as you are doing your best to express yourself clearly, I don't think the moderators will "take action.

Maybe the translation software works best if you use short sentences.

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Old 07-14-2008, 04:58 AM   #54
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It is fair to say, that you are often difficult to understand and sometimes downright obscure. That is an unfortunate characteristic, given that the subject matter (BC&H) is often inherently 'difficult to understand and downright obscure'.
I understand... "downright obscure"..

Unfortunately, this is due to the need to protect my intellectual property about what I write and place in the forum. In the italian forums not raised this issue, because the people writing in are not very interested in "plagiarism", but simply to challenge what "post" one. More or less here is also the same thing, but at this aspect also joins a genuine commercial interest and I do not know well how your legislation tends to protect the authors posting material in the forums.

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Might I suggest that you attempt to phrase your thoughts in simpler language. That way you will likely express yourself more accurately and we shall understand more clearly. As time goes on ...
I think I guess what you mean. However, in order to understand better, it would be preferable that you (or someone else of will good) made a "excerpt" of one post of the mine, long enough, and proposed a form to expose alternative to that my.

The friend Spanky had assured me that my english was "pretty good" and that I had don't worry me much for this aspect ... Now I remain surprised to discover that what I write is not very understandable ..

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I do not think Littlejohn's posts are too difficult to read.

As long as you are doing your best to express yourself clearly, I don't think the moderators will "take action.

Maybe the translation software works best if you use short sentences.

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Thanks you, very much!

Will try to follow your advice!


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The friend Spanky had assured me that my english was "pretty good" and that I had don't worry me much for this aspect ... Now I remain surprised to discover that what I write is not very understandable ..

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Actually, littlejohn, your English is quite charming, and most of what you write is understandable. But some of your longer posts get difficult to understand, and I suspect that a lot of people here are not reading them. I decided you were using machine translation when I found various Italian words untranslated, which is what the machine translations do.

There are no legal problems with posting here, and youngalexander only meant that he did not think the mods would allow a continual rewriting of your posts. But I don't think that we have reached that point yet.
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One conjecture?... Absolutely not!..All the occurrences into Talmud ed into "Toldoth Yeschu" they are refer to Jesus. I intend to say that "ben Pandira or Pandera" (Panthera, see Celso), "ben Stada" (Stah-tah-da = she who abandoned her husband), the "son of a prostitute", "Pelonì", "Talui", etc., are all attributes referring to Jesus of Nazareth. This is easily seen, comparing this data with what can be found in ancient literature: including that of MANDEANS!
A conjecture? Absolutely not? All of the references in the Talmud and in the Toledoth Yeschu refer to Jesus. I mean that "ben Pandira or Pandera" (Panthera, see Celso), "ben Stada" (Stah-tah-da = she who abandoned her husband), the "son of a prostitute", "Pelonì", "Talui", etc., are all attributes referring to Jesus of Nazareth. This is easily seen, by comparing this data with what can be found in ancient literature: including that of MANDEANS

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Apart from all this is the same logic that leads us to say that certainly what is stated in the Talmud refers to Jesus of Nazareth. Had it not been so, the Jews of past centuries don't would have suffered persecution because of their Talmud! Not find it? .. All occorenze mentioned above, have found a precise reflected in my research! I hope in the near future to talk about it.
Apart from all this, the same logic leads me to say with certainty that what is stated in the Talmud refers to Jesus of Nazareth. If this were not so, the Jews of past centuries would not have suffered persecution because of their Talmud! Not find it? .. All of the occurences [references?] mentioned above, have [been identified?] in my research! I hope in the near future to talk about it.

But I am guessing about some of this.

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".. that the Talmud........is 'deliberately silent'.."

Silent?... I hope you're joking!

In the frenzy to prove your thesis that everything was invented by Constantine, you trampled all thing and suggest a theory that for me (but not only!) is totally illogical, because it requires absolutely improbable theories, difficult to prove also much, such as alleged 'invention' of gnostic literature and apocrifa, to reveal the invention of Constantine (according to your thesis) as something real ... Sorry, on this road I can not get behind ...

In your frenzy to prove your thesis that everything was invented by Constantine, you have trampled everything and suggested a theory that for me (but not me alone!) is totally illogical, because it requires absolutely improbable theories, which are also difficult to prove, such as the alleged 'invention' of gnostic literature and Apocrypha, to establish that Christianity the invention of Constantine (according to your thesis) ... Sorry, I can't join you in this.


"....as a despot like Musolini"

Hard to say which of the two was the worst!
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Hi sharrock!..How do you do?

Do you unterstand italian?..


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One conjecture?... Absolutely not!..All the occurrences into Talmud ed into "Toldoth Yeschu" they are refer to Jesus. I intend to say that "ben Pandira or Pandera" (Panthera, see Celso), "ben Stada" (Stah-tah-da = she who abandoned her husband), the "son of a prostitute", "Pelonì", "Talui", etc., are all attributes referring to Jesus of Nazareth. This is easily seen, comparing this data with what can be found in ancient literature: including that of MANDEANS!
A conjecture? Absolutely not? All of the references in the Talmud and in the Toledoth Yeschu refer to Jesus. I mean that "ben Pandira or Pandera" (Panthera, see Celso), "ben Stada" (Stah-tah-da = she who abandoned her husband), the "son of a prostitute", "Pelonì", "Talui", etc., are all attributes referring to Jesus of Nazareth. This is easily seen, by comparing this data with what can be found in ancient literature: including that of MANDEANS


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Apart from all this is the same logic that leads us to say that certainly what is stated in the Talmud refers to Jesus of Nazareth. Had it not been so, the Jews of past centuries don't would have suffered persecution because of their Talmud! Not find it? .. All occorenze mentioned above, have found a precise reflected in my research! I hope in the near future to talk about it.
Apart from all this, the same logic leads me to say with certainty that what is stated in the Talmud refers to Jesus of Nazareth. If this were not so, the Jews of past centuries would not have suffered persecution because of their Talmud! Not find it? .. All of the occurences [references?] mentioned above, have [been identified?] in my research! I hope in the near future to talk about it.

But I am guessing about some of this.


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".. that the Talmud........is 'deliberately silent'.."

Silent?... I hope you're joking!

In the frenzy to prove your thesis that everything was invented by Constantine, you trampled all thing and suggest a theory that for me (but not only!) is totally illogical, because it requires absolutely improbable theories, difficult to prove also much, such as alleged 'invention' of gnostic literature and apocrifa, to reveal the invention of Constantine (according to your thesis) as something real ... Sorry, on this road I can not get behind ...
In your frenzy to prove your thesis that everything was invented by Constantine, you have trampled everything and suggested a theory that for me (but not me alone!) is totally illogical, because it requires absolutely improbable theories, which are also difficult to prove, such as the alleged 'invention' of gnostic literature and Apocrypha, to establish that Christianity the invention of Constantine (according to your thesis) ... Sorry, I can't join you in this.


"....as a despot like Musolini"

Hard to say which of the two was the worst!
Absolutely perfect!

This was exactly what I was looking for and that I asked from the outset. I will conserve a copy of this message so that it be easily recallable from desktop, so I can it readily see when I somehow doubt!

Thanks you very much!

All my best

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PS: for "occurrence" we Italians mean every time a certain word, a specific phrase or a particular event one meet in the text under consideration.

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