tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8507136945842934293.post6073021969810943525..comments2023-09-21T06:15:03.099-07:00Comments on Conjugate Visits: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of grammar snobbery … (On “yay,” “yea,” and “yeah.”)June Casagrandehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00363096837053080969noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8507136945842934293.post-79565008457493751912008-08-15T15:09:00.000-07:002008-08-15T15:09:00.000-07:00Thanks. No one's tried to tell me that, but I can ...Thanks. No one's tried to tell me that, but I can see how it'd be a pretty easy assumption to make.<BR/><BR/>Thanks!June Casagrandehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00363096837053080969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8507136945842934293.post-7860626149933193462008-08-15T14:25:00.000-07:002008-08-15T14:25:00.000-07:00"yeah/yea" is common to all Germanic languages, an..."yeah/yea" is common to all Germanic languages, and "yes" is newer and specific to English - in case anyone tries to tell you that "yeah" is a corruption/lazy pronunciation of "yes"...goofyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14760721504519661112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8507136945842934293.post-42430822742682964062008-08-13T08:08:00.000-07:002008-08-13T08:08:00.000-07:00Would've been nice to have that option. But in my ...Would've been nice to have that option. But in my world, all insults and slams were to be used behind the back of the victim.<BR/><BR/>Hmmm ... gaining new insight on why I dropped out. <BR/><BR/>P.S. Don't you think Vikki looks fat today?June Casagrandehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00363096837053080969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8507136945842934293.post-20469685143036403392008-08-13T01:37:00.000-07:002008-08-13T01:37:00.000-07:00Speaking from the perspective of a different gende...Speaking from the perspective of a different gender and probably an even <I>more</I> different school, we passed notes too. However, our notes were completely different from yours. They contained insults directed at the person you passed it to, and the game (such as it was) was to think up imaginative ways to modify the note so as to turn it into an insult directed at the person you received it from. Then you passed it back. The other person would then add further modifications, and it could go back and forth several times.<BR/><BR/>You should have tried this. You might have got more notes. And practice for editing. :-)<BR/><BR/>P.S. The notion of "yeah" having the same vowel as in "pat" makes no sense to me. In a non-rhotic dialect, it rhymes with "pear".<BR/><BR/>Adrian (outerhoard.wordpress.com)Adrian Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06469026342375625260noreply@blogger.com