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#69196 05/16/02 06:03 PM
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Am I seeing this right? No one mentioned, "you bet your sweet a**!" ?


#69197 05/16/02 11:42 PM
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And interesting, Silk, how far those Portuguese sailors travelled. I knew I'd heard your "pickanninnies" before, and it was when I was in Papua New Guinea.

pikinini

Pacific Pidgin English: *pikinini. The ultimate origin is with Portuguese ‘pequeninho’; it came to to Pacific Pidgin English from earlier pidgins (‘Atlantic Pidgin’ etc) carried round the world by sailors.

1. Noun form
Kind of person: a baby, a child, son, daughter, niece, nephew, descendant, adopted child, familiar term of address for any younger person
pikinini man a son
pikinini meri a daughter
http://makeashorterlink.com/?V227152E

Dispela meri imus go na mekim wok nau..
I've got to go do some work now!


#69198 05/17/02 02:45 AM
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Hows about "Yupper"?
Or "That just about says it all."
In Spanish, there is "Simón"[pronounced see-moan, accent on moan], "Andale", "Porque no"Hi, Musick, "Por cierto" and many more I'm sure I could think of if I didn't have to go to bed now.


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And then there are the responses in the form of a question to a proposition in the form of a question, as in the following dialogues:

You want to go fishing with us next week, don't you?
Does a bear s**t in the woods?
or
Is the pope catholic?
or
Does the pope s**t in the woods?

A negative response signifying disagreement would be,
Has a chicken got lips?


#69200 05/17/02 05:33 PM
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Heard my dad say...."No s**t, Sherlock!"

Edit: Sorry...Musick...I didn't see you had this above!


#69201 05/17/02 09:52 PM
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That's what I'm saying!

Does it snow in Siberia in the winter?

#69202 05/17/02 10:06 PM
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pssssshhh ya
pfffft ya


#69203 05/18/02 12:21 AM
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There ya' go!

Yep!


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