On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 19:29:30 +0100, "Flycatcher"
wrote:

This is meant as a constructive criticism - hope you take it in that spirit.

I do.

Slow down and read your post before you post it - Whether I agree with you
or not is irrelevant, but any point you try to make is lost when your
sentences don't seem to make any sense.

Unless you've been following this particular chapter of the little drama
that is ROFF from the beginning, I'd be surprised if it did make a lot
of sense. But you can rest assured that those at whom it is aimed not
only understand all or at least most of it, but read every word, too.
And FWIW, I suspect, but do not know, that at least some other readers,
should there be any, have an idea of what it is about.

This may be due to a poor grasp of your dialect, but I'm probably not the
only one who is having problems reading it.

To sum it up: I'm making fun of the news media/"information sources"
coming out of New Orleans and those out of the area who are apparently
looking toward these dubious sources as actually informed about
anything. These "sources" regularly mispronounce words that any and
every local know by heart, such as pronouncing "levee" (leh-vee) as
"LEE-vee" and Bourne (basically, "born") as "BOY-knee"/"Bernie" (from
Boca Raton), and using the silly-assed "n'awlins" pronunciation, all the
while offering up all sorts of nonsense about the situation as if they
know intimately the area, its people, and what they think and feel. To
locals of the area, it is similar to seeing supposedly-authentic New
Orleans-based films where someone runs from a swamp into the Vieux
Carre, (nearly) every resident is referred to as a "Cajun," and everyone
calls everyone "my cherie," or something equally silly.

You end up failing to get your point across when the reader gives up
after the second sentence.

Oh, I'm fairly sure my point got across to those for whom it was
intended, but thanks for the input.

TC,
R