Re: New Game

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From: Geoffrey Tobin
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 00:00

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Odd!  Replace the "Howdy" with "G'day", correct the double negatives,
replace "come on" with "come and", and it reads exactly like everyday
Australian English.  What part of England are your ancestors from?

mspe...@conwaycorp.net wrote:
> 
> II had a good bit of trouble with this so, as a public service, I
> thought I would translate it into Arkansan.
> ...
> Ok, here goes:
> 
> Howdy.  This prob'ly is of no account to nobody.  I'm a Chinaman so
> 'scuse my funny talkin'.  I've cobbled together a hack of the ol' DOS
> Bomber-Man game.  I ain't nowhere near done, and what little of it
> does run is in Chinese, but if you want this thing come on get it from
> my Hong Kong homepage.
> 
> [e-mail addresses omitted]
> 
> Thank you kindly.
> 
> /custom translation by Arkansaw Mike/

-- 
Best wishes!
Geoffrey Tobin
Email:  G.T...@latrobe.edu.au
WWW:    http://www.ee.latrobe.edu.au/~gt/gt.html

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