jibe/jive

[James Smith]

This use of "jive" sounds natural to me.  I use "jive"
in this sense or context.  If this isn't a "correct"
use of "jive" to you, just what does this word mean to
you, and how do you use it?

Maybe it's because I'm a landlubber and "gybe" means
absolutely nothing to me.

JIM


--- "James A. Landau" <JJJRLandau at AOL.COM> wrote:
> In a message dated 01/23/2003 6:18:07 PM Eastern
> Standard Time,
> AnneR at HKUSA.COM writes:
>
> >  jive for jibe (to be in accord, agree): "We've
> got to make sure the
> finished
> >  art jives with the art manuscript."
> >
> >  Is this a common substitution that other people
> have heard?
>
> I would chalk this one up to ignorance or more
> likely momentary confusion,
> since "jibe" is not that common a word.  However,
> I'm not a trained linguist
> and might be missing something more significant.
>
> In this particular context, the word "jive" sense:
> "finished art break-dances
> with the manuscript."  In fact, the nautical word
> "gybe" (of a sail, to move
> across the deck suddenly and dangerously) makes
> sense here.
>
....>
>       - James A. Landau


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James D. SMITH                 |If history teaches anything
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                               |or slowly and cautiously.

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