Contemporary slang bites the big one

[Wilson Gray]

"You ain't said shit!"

"You sayin' a tas'e (i.e., taste)!"

Both of which mean, for no reason that I've ever been able to fathom,

"I am in complete agreement with what you have to say." In this case, I
agree with Jon and Mark.

-Wilson


On 5/14/06, Mark A. Mandel <mamandel at ldc.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> Benjamin Zimmer:
> >>  *That really bit.
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> Jesse:
> > This is non-asterisked in my idiolect.
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> Ditto for me.
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> m a m
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