Yah!

[Scot LaFaive]

If I may agree with my fellow Wisconsinite...Yah, you betcha.

Scot


On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Joseph Salmons <jsalmons at wisc.edu> wrote:
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> A German-sounding [ja:] is a common affirmative in the Upper Midwest.
> It's part of wellworn stereotypes like "Yah, you betcha", "Yah hey
> (dere)!", etc., but also widely used in daily speech, if far from
> universal.
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> Joe
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> On Oct 22, 2008, at 8:25 AM, ronbutters at AOL.COM wrote:
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>> It sounds totally natural to me as well, though my non reflective
>> intuition connects it with Yiddish (and dialects of American English
>> that are influenced by German?)
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>> It sounds okay to me, but I've heard Carlos Smoov, the world's
>> greatest Latin soul-singer, say it so often that, if it ever struck me
>> as odd, I'm now accustomed to its face.
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>> -Wilson
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>> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com
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>>> Honduran-Mexican Ned Mencia (aka Carlos Mencia), raised in Los
>>> Angeles, has a rerun of "Mind of Mencia" tonight "Performance
>>> Enhanced". The advertisement is (or something close to):
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>>> "I want to make fun of handicapped people...You already can. Our
>>> president's retarded."
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>>> This "already" sounds odd to me. If it's not common use, it occurred
>>> to me that maybe it's from Spanish "ya". BB
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