Y'all gnome sane?

[Dan Goncharoff]

Garson has clarified my point for me quite well.

Far be it from me, however, to question someone who studied Latin before it
became a dead language...

DanG


On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:04 AM, ADSGarson O'Toole <
adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Dan may have meant to raise the possibility that the error was caused
> by a faulty transcription created by a voice recognition application
> such as Siri or Google Now instead of a finger manipulation error.
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> Compressed elliptical utterances are difficult to decode for men and
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> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 2:27 AM, hw gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:15 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com>
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> >> digitalis?
> >>
> >
> > Why wouldn't it be? Latin _lapsus digitalis_ = English "finger-slip"
> >
> > I take it that a person who speaks a dialect in which "saying" is
> > pronounced "sane" should slip up and actually *write* "saying" as "sane"
> is
> > less interesting than challenging the waning competence of the winner of
> > the 1954 high-school winner of the Latin Contest of the Missouri Province
> > of the Society of Jesus? :-)
> >
> > FWIW, "Gnome sane?" as a jocular spelling of the ubiquitous
> > conversation-filler, "Know what I'm saying?" has been around for at
> least a
> > dekkid.
> > --
> > -Wilson
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> > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> > -Mark Twain
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