[lit-ideas] Out Of Context
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:06:14 EDT
In a message dated 4/24/2009 4:52:03 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx writes:
My intention was to suggest
context.
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Of course! I was only teasing. Incidentally, that's my mode on this list.
Unless I write, "earnestly", which means _earnestly_.
Course 'Brits' is lovely. Argies is lovely too, and Yanks.
One day I was at a bar in Buenos Aires, and a Yank was offended. I heard
him say to the other, "This argie called me chunkie". I intervened before
the quarrel, and said, "No, he said, 'Yank', but pronounced it the 'Argentine
way', i.e. wrong'.
Originally, Yankee is Jan Kees, a Dutch name for John Cheese.
Cheers,
JLS
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