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Like I'm going to believe some guy who doesn't even know how to spell "almanac"

I suppose you understand that there is no objective rule to transliterate 'al-manakh' into IE dialects, so I must guess you are joking.

Benjamin Franklin, you know: Founding Father [of the USA], signer of the Declaration of Independence and of the Constitution; first postmaster general of the USA; first US ambassador to France; secretary and president of the American Philosophical Society; inventor of the lightning rod and bifocal eyeglasses; founder of the Library Company and the University of Pennsylvania... Polymath, inspirational figure...

And surely you know that jokes in these pages make sense only if they fulfill the purpose HN has.

I believe user mjd is Mark J Dominus, ie, Perl-lover. Check the OP.

I knew he was a Perl lover and I've been reading plover.com for at least fifteen years but I had not made that connection.

Thanks. So, if I may, jumping in like a Lord Flashheart.

Well I could not predict it the same way I could not predict Stravinsky doing somersaults on stage.

Love it! I am observing a moment of silence for your no-doubt plummeting karma scores

hn karma score be like no one care about em.

dey no have value in de real world except for hipsters.

eye em oh.

You get da wrong spelling brah, it be hipstas

be it, reeeely? nope, dope. *

* #sorrycudnresistderhyme

repeat afta me:

we doan need no spellucation!

we doan need no thot control

ah said ta repeat afta me, but ya went ahead, bro!

ennyway, kudos, n sudos!

ah B frum Unix land, you C ...

mark-jason, imo, you should have said, "some guy who don't' even know how to spell 'almanac' ".

that would have made your trick more believable.

still, nice try.

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