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)

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