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I plead guilty but the statute of limitations has doubtless run.
Two expressions which we used relentlessly while I was an undergraduate illustrate the propensity to contract entire sentences:
When wondering if a chum had dined, the form of inquiry was "jeet-jet?" which contracted the entire sentence "Did you eat yet?"
If the response was in the negative, it was followed by the invitation "Squeet" which contracted the whole sentence "Let us go eat."
I feel so guilty.
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Jumping into the frying pan, or the fire, as the case may be-since the rest of you have swept through the gutters and gone on world-wide pidgin hunts since this thread began, and I just now looked in--
A griddle can be round, square, or oblong, but has almost no sides atall...
And I never knew before why some cooks called the skillet a spider. They took the word away from its original meaning and the only connection I could see was that a flat-bottomed skillet might be good for smashing spiders!
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jeet-jet … squeet
Next thang you gonna say "good-bye" when you really mean "God be with you."
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I see it now:
all language distilled to a single syllable....
ommm....
formerly known as etaoin...
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