"phonetically"

[Jonathan Lighter]

It seems to be one thing to sing a language other than one's own
"phonetically."  But it's something else to speak one's own language that
way.

JL

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com> wrote:

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> I haven't seen this use of "pony" since I was in school, where it meant a
> translation, usually interlinear, of a Greek or Latin work.  I don't recall
> it being used with German texts, though, but it probably was.
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> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 2:42 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 7:45 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
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> > wrote:
> > > speaks phonetically
> >
> > Interestingly, the Late-Great Redd Foxx, on his album, You Got to Wash
> > Your Ass, says of himself that, back in his days as an altar-boy back
> > at St. Benedict the Moor parish in Saint Louis, he "spoke Latin
> > _phonetically_."
> >
> > Your guess is as good as mine as to what, exactly, he meant by that.
> > We altar-boys weren't taught Latin and didn't speak Latin, sensu
> > stricto. We merely recited fixed formulae -
> >
> > Priest: Introibo ad altare Dei
> > Altar-boy: Ad Deum, qui laetificat juventutem meam
> >
> > - that we already knew - there were "ponies," called "altar cards,"
> > supplied, just in case - from years of reading along with the
> > "celebrant," as we say in Catholic, in our missals, before we achieved
> > stardom.
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> > --
> > -Wilson
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