Hee, I love that all my notions of how "Dabel" could be pronounced were wrong.
And yeah, Ernst is such a fun guy to work with. It was a bit unsettling not to hear a single "my friend," though. It's like a box of CrackerJacks without the secret decoder ring.
It's probably something he uses in text to help get over the problems that text has in communicating tone. When you've got him on the phone, there's no mistake.
