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Originally Posted by Lalwendė
davem is pronounced either dayvum or Oi! to me. 
Mithalwen is mithul-wen to me, though dayvum pronounces it mith-arl-wen.
How the heck do you find early posts then? It only seems to bring up the last 500 or so when I look.  |
Ahhh...for that, m'dear, you need to possess two things:
1) a good working knowledge of your intended target, and
2) patience with the clunky search engine round here.
The key, as you have noted, is entering a search that returns less than 500 results.
To do this for the Downer in question, one must know first that he posted only to the Books forum for the first couple of years and limit the search to that.
Then, say you want posts only from a year ago or older, and sort them in ascending order.
I would add in passing that in the first two years of davem's time here, he posted only 243 times. But with post number 244 -- to my own much-beloved Canonicity thread -- the pace picked up drastically....
Did I create
two monsters....?
(Make sure you search only for posts, and for davem only, obviously.)