Veep

[Jonathan Lighter]

Third episode:

"Sweet hairy fuck!" ("Good heavens!")

"What the F-word is going on?" ("What the eff is going on?")

"What's-his-ass said so."  ("What's-his-name."  I heard this in 1975.)

BONUS:

Democratic strategist Jim Carville has tweeted Dems to "WTFU," which he
defines as "Wake the you-know-what up!" from dreams that Romney is a
pushover.

JL



On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> The normals and normalistas in the story were middle-class African-American
> owners of a yogurt store. (As an advisor tells the Veep, "There's a
> narrative built in!").
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> Visiting them for a photo op (in a block of time suddenly freed up from a
> political meeting) was described as "normalizing."
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> JL
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> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com
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> >  From a random discussion group:
> >
> > http://goo.gl/Z3mle
> > > Normalista
> > >
> > > I`m having problems finding a translation for the word above. The
> > > context is below:
> > >
> > > En esta muestra participaron dos de la especialidad (historia), tres
> > > de formaci=F3n b=E1sica y uno procediente de la antigua formaci=F3n
> nor=
> malista.
> > >
> > > History majors, elementary education majors, and another type which is
> > > now no longer used.
> > >
> > > The training consited of training to be a teacher not at the
> > > university, but starting in highschool. Any ideas or suggestions would
> > > be greatly appreciated. Thanks alot.
> > >
> > > Saludos.
> >
> > And the confirmation:
> >
> > http://goo.gl/CW1Rf
> > > normalista sustantivo masculino y femenino (Col) primary (school)
> teach=
> er
> >
> > Don't think this was the context of Joel's original quote.
> >
> > Nor is this:
> >
> > http://goo.gl/Ilq8Y
> > > In this study, we examined the ways in which normalista teachers and
> > > Mexican American paraprofessionals in a teacher-training program in
> > > San Antonio, Texas conceptualize culture.
> >
> > ;-)
> >
> >     VS-)
> >
> > On 5/4/2012 11:23 AM, Michael Newman wrote:
> > > There's a common misconception that probably has its origin in
> > elementary Spanish classes that any noun ending in -a is feminine. In
> fac=
> t,
> > -ista words are usually not inherently marked for gender. A man can be un
> > comunista and a woman can be una comunista. There are also a lot of other
> > words that are grammatically masculine but end in -a, such as programa.
> >  There are fewer -o words that are feminine, the most famous being "la
> > mano," but there are also clippings like la moto (cicleta), and a few
> > others. But the -o is a better gender indicator than -a.
> > >
> > >
> > > Michael Newman
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