Heard on "Judge Mathis": [Inz] "money"

[Jonathan Lighter]

The ins justify the meanz.

JL


On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 8:52 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On May 6, 2013, at 8:22 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> > HDAS, based on print, opts for "ends."
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> > (Maybe because you have to make 'em meet?)
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> > JL
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> Some people are apparently trying to make their ins meet:
>
> Is this a game to you all? I'm barely making ins meet, and all you want to
> do is belittle people who disagree with your view. Just because we are
> concerned about how high our taxes are does not make us evil people. We pay
> taxes, plenty of taxes, believe you me.
> http://www.kxii.com/mobi/home?storyid=121841494&comments=y&sI=46
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> The lower class or people within the poverty line barely making ins meet,
> will easily outnumber the rich at the polls.
>
> http://forum.sbrforum.com/players-talk/1230625-whats-good-line-us-presidental-election-p2.html
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> If yes, we can help you get your life on track and help you secure a
> future for yourself and family so that you can retire without having to
> work a part-time job.
> http://www.myspace.com/mmyk_13/blog
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> Not a huge number, but some.  And as they say, the ins justify the means.
>
> LH
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> > On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> A gigolo being for the recovery of money is explaining to JM that he
> can't
> >> mount a proper defense for fear of embarrassing his patron.
> >>
> >> The Judge replies to the effect that
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> >> "I know you don't want to be doing nothing like that, 'cause you want
> to be
> >> able to go back and get you some more of them _[Inz]_ from her!"
> >>
> >> I've heard [Inz} used to mean "money" since I was a child. But, for the
> >> obvious reason of the problem of slang compounded by dialect, I have no
> >> idea whether the word is "ends" or "ins," since semantic development is
> >> nugatory in either case. Money is the means to any _end. Money gets you
> >> _in_. At the _end_ of a job, you get money. Money _in_ your pocket. The
> >> means are your_ends_. With _ins_ you don't worry about being on the
> outs.
> >>
> >> UD has both _ends_ and _ins_ as "money." Quelle surprise! One poster
> >> asserts "< make ends (meet)."
> >>
> >> As good a WAG as any other.
> >>
> >> This was one of the few times that I've found anything ancient in UD
> that's
> >> also relatively rare, to the extent that I was surprised Mathis used
> [inz],
> >> he being much younger than I and it was never as hip as, e.g. _bread_.
> >>
> >> Google has nothing old enough to provide evidence for an etymology.
> >> --
> >> -Wilson
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