Fwd: if you're ever looking for a new project

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM
Thu Mar 10 16:59:56 UTC 2005


If Yalies have to simplify their clusters, we ARE in trouble.

Yeah, I know....

JL

Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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At 7:50 AM -0800 3/10/05, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:
>from an undergrad student of mine. any sightings or citings? (or, for
>that matter, sitings?)
>
>not in our archives...
>
>Begin forwarded message:
>>
>>this goes back to middle school (i remember it saying it then)
>>
>>recently, i've noticed that a lot of people have been saying 'isht'
>>instead of 'shit'. a google search brings up phrases like 'do not
>>read this boring isht', 'old isht', 'becca's page of random isht!',
>>and, my favorite, 'weird isht i feel like posting whilst st0ned!' .
>>it's difficult to just do a google search of this phrase because there
>>is at least one organization that uses the acronym ISHT for its name.
>>is the use of this phrase documented at all?

Haven't heard "isht", but I've been getting "ish" for "shit" every
year on my students' slang compilations. Could the former be a
cluster-simplified version of the former?


Larry


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