| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1192 |
| Total number of notes: | 42769 |
RE: < Note 410.30 by THE780::MATUSZAK >
> "It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide."
Isn't that "jive" as in the movie AIRPLANE? It was The Beaver's Mom in the
scene.
ps The only word SPELL didn't like was rozzer :)
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| 426.1 | No! | REGENT::BROOMHEAD | Don't panic -- yet. | Thu Oct 29 1987 17:12 | 3 |
It's cockney. 'Av a 'art, luv!
Ann B.
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| 426.2 | MLNOIS::HARBIG | Fri Oct 30 1987 05:23 | 4 | ||
Just in case someone needs a translation.
"It's insane to bribe a policeman with counterfeit money."
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| 426.3 | So, I have a tin ear. | SEAPEN::PHIPPS | Digital Internal Use Only | Fri Oct 30 1987 10:35 | 12 |
I also can't hear what I'm typing!
My base note here should have been a REPLY to the note I referenced.
Since I brought it up, are there any Jive aficionados out there? How did it
get started? Derivative of Pig Latin?
Maybe the first jive talker was scared by a Cockney.
Just kidding! :-)
Mike
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