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Anyone else get this?

"Mr.Kawika

We are contacting you for the first time.

Our presentation: My name is Leonardo Vieira and I am working in the firm Follmann & Sons Tonewoods as commercial director.

Since 1957 the firm is salving Brazilian Rosewood and Pernambuco-wood for the noblest purpose ever : to criate musical instruments , culture , humam evolution. The CITES organization in Geneve (Switzerland)is protecting endangered species (ivory , tortle shell , Dalbergia Nigra , etc...) in the form of an International Passport for the free transit of objects crafted with these materials.

The numerated Passport is registered according to the generad guidelines of CITES; in the are files this is at disposal for the customs of the CITES convention Washington 1992 signatary countries.

We are living and working within the RPPN sítio capuavinha (see google)(RPPN is Reserva Particular de Patrimônio natural) a private ecological reserve protected by federal low of IBAMA-BRASIL (Istituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente). A school at luterie is being created and also instruction musical theory , interpretation , coral and orchestral activities , handcraft (weeaving , carpentery , etc...).

Visite our website : http://www.follmann-tonewoods.com with photos of the available sets.

BEST REGARDS.

Leonardo Vieira ."

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David C. Hurd
http://www.ukuleles.com

Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. Through the Looking Glass by L. Carroll

"Since my house has burned down, I have a much better view of the moon"

Yes, and I though it was on the not-spam side of the line for a luthier. Follman is a legit dealer.

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Howard Klepper
http://www.klepperguitars.com

When all else fails, clean the shop.

Me too. Do you know for a fact that it's junk, David?

It reads like one of those Nigerian scam letters

Rick, I didn't say it was junk - but when I get unsolicited e-mail from a foreign country from someone trying to sell expensive CITES materials and they can't even be bothered to have someone correct their English - it makes me suspicious. YMMV...

aloha,

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David C. Hurd
http://www.ukuleles.com

Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. Through the Looking Glass by L. Carroll

"Since my house has burned down, I have a much better view of the moon"

the broken and twisted english is usualy a sign of shady origin..... Jody

Ah yesse, us foraigners can speek gud, but take time und praktis. Deefikult wen werkin' wol day.

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Laurent Brondel
West Paris, Maine - USA
http://www.laurentbrondel.com/

Okay, I get to tell my favorite "broken English" story. I used to work in a bicycle factory. We got all sorts of promotional materials from Taiwanese companies that wanted us to use their products. Rarely was the English correct, and often it was humorous. The best ones got posted on the bulletin board. One day, a particularly inscrutable one went up, and a bunch of the guys were standing around laughing at it. There was a picture of a young couple walking together over a bridge. The young man was pushing a bicycle, and there were fourteen lines of text that began, "From fairest creatures we desire increase" , and got more puzzling from there on. (Somebody's already chuckling.) I looked at it too, and it seemed to me that this was a little different from the others. "It's kind of poetic", I said. This really brought down the house. I felt like an idiot sending it to a family friend who teaches poetry. "Am I crazy, or does whoever wrote this have some kind of sense of the rhythms of our language?", I asked. He didn't make me feel like any less of an idiot. "That's the first poem in Shakespeare's sonnet series", he replied.

Still, I'm pretty sure that rosewood spam isn't Shakespeare.

Speaking of broken english... funny enough (and please don't take this as a flaming-atempt) although my grammar and spelling are far from perfect (I'm portuguese), I do notice a lot of grammar-kicking and mispelling around here, every now and then. Is it my impression that there's a reasonable amount of english-speaking folks who don't hone their grammar as much as their lutherie skills?

Oh, and sorry for the off-topic bit.

I didn't receive that email, btw. But thanks for posting, David.

Cheers

Proceed at your own risk.

In my case, I think you're wrong. Honing's not going to do the trick. My grammar needs at least a 300 grit diamond stone, and my spelling needs to go back to the bench grinder.

Hukd oon foniks werkd 4 mei !!

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broken english story? a real sign hanging in a chinese restuarant a few miles from my home ....
rule # 1. the customer is always right
rule # 2. if you think you are wrong , see rule # 1



Jody