[Ads-l] ajast

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

Was the speaker by any chance of Arabic descent, or has he perhaps spent a lot of time in the Mideast? (Egyptian Arabic has /g/ where standard Arabic has /j/, i.e., /dZ/.)
Gerald Cohen 
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Jonathan Lighter  wrote  (Wednesday, December 16, 2015 10:05 AM):

High-paid CNN political commentator:

"People were really ajast to hear somebody go after Donald Trump."

As a bonus, it may simply mean "amazed."

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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