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| 923.1 | | JIT081::DIAMOND | Order temporarily out of personal name | Thu Nov 07 1991 23:03 | 5 |
| It's perfectly clear to me...................................NOT!
I guess that's why it has its own DCL command................NOT!
..........................................................NOT!
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| 923.2 | NOT confused | MARVIN::KNOWLES | Caveat vendor | Fri Nov 08 1991 05:40 | 4 |
| I've no idea what this is all about - is the NOT a Germanic call
for agreement (...nicht?) or a sign of doubt (Eng: I should coco)?
b
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| 923.3 | | DTIF::RUST | | Fri Nov 08 1991 06:51 | 10 |
| I think it's a tag line from a U.S. comedy show, but if so I've never
seen the original bit. I was puzzled by it, too; context indicates that
it's used to mean "The previous statement was really heavy sarcasm and
I disagree with it completely, hah, hah!" but when I first heard it
spoken I thought it might be the equivalent of "n'est-ce pas?" or
"isn't that so?".
Maybe it will go away.
-b
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| 923.4 | | KAOFS::S_BROOK | | Fri Nov 08 1991 07:25 | 19 |
| I've heard it used a lot ... it is a way of stating something to lead the
listener into a given situation with the statement and then shock him / her
by negating it at the end. When I first heard it, it appeared to come from
attempting to speak a logical formula like
________
(a.or.b)
which would be 'a or b bar' ie the negation comes after stating a fact.
It certainly can be cruel ...
You are a great cook ....................NOT!
Indeed let's hope this fad passes, but I've heard it on and off for 20
years now, so I have my doubts.
Stuart
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| 923.5 | | NSSMAC::BONNELL | Where's the beach !? | Fri Nov 08 1991 07:50 | 11 |
| Well, I think I first heard it used in the "Wayne's World" segment,
on "Saturday Night Live" (re: .3 yup - that's a U.S Comedy Show).
For those who haven't seen "Wayne's World" (a recurrent sketch)
the characters are supposed to be teen-agers in the mid-west.
However, I don't know if the SNL writers/actors invented the "...NOT!"
tag, or merely passed it along.
regards...
...diane
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| 923.6 | N't | POBOX::WIECHMANN | Short to, long through. | Fri Nov 08 1991 08:35 | 8 |
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When I was a kid, we used to do the same thing, only we
used the contraction "n't."
I don't think it was very widespread though. We usually
just got confused looks from people outside our circle.
-Jim
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| 923.7 | I hope it comes to the UK... NOT | MARVIN::KNOWLES | Caveat vendor | Tue Nov 12 1991 06:00 | 16 |
| I've just thought - maybe this is related to a phrase I remember from
my (UK) childhood: `...I _don't_ think'. I haven't heard it much
recently. It would work perfectly well in the sentence:
You're a great cook... I _don't_ think [note, stress on the `don't']
But there was no element of shock in it; the sarcasm was clear
right from the beginning of the positive bit.
I hope ...NOT doesn't catch on over here (a wan hope, probably - once
one of the Turtles, or Bart uses it our children will be hooked for
life). But as we older folks grew up (probably at age 8-10) we realized
that having your fingers crossed behind your back didn't make a lie any
less of a lie. I think anything with the syntactic soundness of NOT
(perhaps muttered in an aside) would be less easy to nail as deceitful.
b
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| 923.8 | | MCIS5::WOOLNER | Photographer is fuzzy, underdeveloped and dense | Wed Nov 13 1991 13:52 | 4 |
| Wayne's World revived it but I remember it from Monmouth County, NJ
circa '64-'65. I really missed it in the meantime........ NOT!
Leslie
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