Lama (aka YOUKNOWWHO) Increase the LSD in the drip. You kill eme on a regular basis, but then i might have told you that before.
LMAO Paz on 2/20/02 4:17 PM, Jim L'Hommedieu (Lama) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sunday, someone asked about the American phrase, 'Yay' as he found > himself "clueless about 'yay' and its usage". He guessed (incorrectly) that > it was > related to "yuck". > > If no one else jumped on this "linguistics" thread, I'll be surprised. > Anyway, I think the author (Kakki?) uses alternate spellings in casual > writing, as I do. I imagine that "Yay" is a phonetic spelling for a > blunt and enthusiastic "Yeah!", which of course is a derivation of "Yes". > > Other mis-spellings in American "English" are: > > gonna (going to) > gotta (meaning "must") > ya (meaning "you") > da (meaning "the") > > > As in "Yay! Ya *gotta* go to da market." > > As a writer, I was forever changed when I read "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid > Test" by Tom Wolfe (1968). He took these liberties and then some. > > I love the way these mispellings give sound to a printed page. As Slyvester > Stewart observed, > > "Thank you > falettinme > be > mice elf, > agin." > > (of a band called > 'Sly And the Family Stone' > in 1970)
