"Thaaat's what I'm talking about!"

[will salmon]

I've said this for years, and I am a native speaker of Texican.

Will


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On Oct 27, 2011, at 2:19 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

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> There's a current TV commercial in which B.B. King says this.
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> Contextually it can only mean, "Yes, indeed, I think that's really great!"
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> AAVE?
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> JL
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> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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