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      CommentAuthormick
    • CommentTimeNov 19th 2008
     
    today, on the phone, someone said: "that's jake with me". i knew by their tone what they meant, but..

    heh.. i had to ask. it's from the hipster days and means "all right".

    "hey pops, that's jake!"
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      CommentAuthorflak
    • CommentTimeNov 19th 2008
     
    Nope, never heard that one.

    Urban Dictionary has a slightly different definition. :p
    • CommentAuthorrbernato
    • CommentTimeNov 20th 2008
     
    I never heard "The Duke gave my aunt a teapot." and neither the counterpart "The teapot was given to my aunt by the duke." – though I come across those phrases quite often recently, since they are a prime example to explain Chomskys Generative Grammar, classical Taxonomic Grammar, Mymes Transformative Grammar and eventually Hallidays theories too –

    in linguistics there's a lot of fun sentences tossed around like "Three men lost in a small rowing boat – "
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      CommentAuthorechoes
    • CommentTimeNov 20th 2008
     
    flak said...Nope, never heard that one.

    Urban Dictionary has a slightly different definition. :p


    actually....Just Jake
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      CommentAuthormick
    • CommentTimeNov 20th 2008 edited
     
    ... and then, there's "the jakes", which is another term for biffy or outhouse.

    the man i was talking to is 94, and also says things like "reet" for "all right".

    rbernato, i love stuff like that.. where greek and english collide. theme and rheme scheme. :D
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      CommentAuthormick
    • CommentTimeDec 4th 2008
     
    say this fast, three times:

    Whittle it a little, it'll fit.


    ;) it's not tough to do, it just sounds cool.

    *nod*
    • CommentAuthormondo
    • CommentTimeDec 4th 2008
     
    this reminds me of the variants we have for the phrase "She'll be right," which is a general response to...most questions, probably, but especially ones where someone's asking if you want some help with something -- "nah, mate, she'll be right". "She's apples" comes to mind. "No worries" of course means the same, but somewhere along the way it became "no fuckin' worries" (or no wuckin' furries), which was naturally shortened to "nuckers" and then became "She's nucks".
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      CommentAuthormick
    • CommentTimeDec 4th 2008
     
    she?

    mondo, i had to read that whole little lingo tut 3 times to figure it out. wonderful example of a "turn of phrase"..... with "turn" being "gyrating madly". i love it.

    you've got a secret language that only pretends to be english, yes? :D
    • CommentAuthormondo
    • CommentTimeDec 4th 2008
     
    Yes, it's always "She"...as if we're talking about ships...which perhaps we originally were -- I'm not sure. To add to the confusion, there's been an increase lately in the use of "yeah no" with everything so it ends up "Yeah, nah, she'll be right". That yeah/nah fragment is often just punctuation, but I like to think of it as grateful acknowledgment / graceful declining... "Thanks for offering, but no, I'll be fine with [insert inconvenient scenario]"
    • CommentAuthorjesse
    • CommentTimeDec 4th 2008
     
    "huh … you look like Laurence Olivier"

    Bumped into a guy at the pub, turned to apologise and that's what he said to me.
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      CommentAuthorchris
    • CommentTimeDec 5th 2008
     
    a colleague says "yeah, no, ..." a lot.
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      CommentAuthormick
    • CommentTimeDec 5th 2008
     
    mondo, i think many people in Aus. would be well served to learn sign language. :D

    jesse, i'd say he was on to something. *nod* it's your lithe muscular physique and your posture. *NOD*



    this is stretching things a bit.. but... ;)
    *deep breath*


    Tom, while playing a game of Scrabble against Dick, who, while considering the last word that Harry (who had had HAD) had had had had, had had HAD, had had HAD. Had HAD had more letters, he would have played it.
    • CommentAuthormondo
    • CommentTimeDec 5th 2008
     
    hmm...that has more "hads" than the old

    Tom, where Dick had had "had", had had "had had". "Had had" had had the teacher's approval.

    ...but I'll never be able to remember it!
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      CommentAuthormick
    • CommentTimeDec 5th 2008
     
    :) i had to count in order to type it out.

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