Michael Everson wrote:

>
> At 14:42 -0400 2005-09-02, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>
> > > Yeah I think that would be the first to get dropped from the above list
> > > - but it might be helpful for communication in English for Africans
> >> (e.g) - I often get the feeling the 419 spam I get was perfected by such
> >> grammar checkers :)
> >
> >Um, are you suggesting that Vai-literate people write English in Vai
> >script?
>
> No, he was saying that Nigerian spammers write an
> English which looks like it was corrected by an
> English grammar checker.

Oh, "419" is code for Nigerian? (Not that most of them claim to be from
Nigeria any more.)
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