[Ads-l] CPT (1912), on Barry Popik's website

[Jonathan Lighter]

News to me.


JL

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 2:49 PM, Joel Berson <berson at att.net> wrote:

> There is something faintly in my mind about New Yorkers (City), or some
> class of them, or some area in the city, but I can't remember who were
> noted as always 15 minutes late.  Except, according to my mother's sister,
> my mother.
>
> Joel
>
>       From: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
>  To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>  Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 1:29 PM
>  Subject: Re: [ADS-L] CPT (1912), on Barry Popik's website
>
> > On Apr 13, 2016, at 1:04 PM, Cohen, Gerald Leonard <gcohen at MST.EDU>
> wrote:
> >
> > Barry Popik's website contains a fairly detailed treatment of CPT (a
> phrase
> > that was recently the subject of an intended humorous skit by Hillary
> Clinton
> > and Bill de Blasio).  I'm surprised (and am not alone in this) that
> neither Clinton
> > nor de Blasio anticipated the  sharp negative reaction.
> > Btw, I had never heard of the CPT phrase but am familiar with its
> > synonym "Jewish time", which refers to arriving, say, 10-15 minutes late.
>
> I'm sure there are all sorts of local variants as well.  When I was
> guest-teaching in Aix-en-Provence, I was informed of the "quart d'heure
> aixois", probably not a thing outside that university. But googling "quart
> d'heure" I find "quart d'heure vaudois", with the explanation that unlike
> the promptness insisted on everywhere else in Switzerland, in the Vaud
> canton a 15-minute lateness is tolerated if not expected.  There's also a
> "quart d'heure romand", extending this flexibility across francophone
> Switzerland.  I'm sure there are equivalents elsewhere, although maybe not
> that many with the "X time" format.
>
> LH
>
> >    Popik's treatment can be found at:
> >
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__barrypopik.com_index.php_new-5Fyork-5Fcity_entry_colored-5Fpeoples-5Ftime_&d=AwIFAg&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=RRzhjm_U-slBY3bRmumRYTCQtNtWYgWGs16os0b6284&s=5DHNWYKCLqSmh37q1YQot0QL5iqYwxV7JtYQH8S78mw&e=
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