Sujet : Re: Word of the day: “Papoose”
De : kehoea (at) *nospam* parhasard.net (Aidan Kehoe)
Groupes : sci.lang alt.usage.englishDate : 07. Sep 2024, 12:50:53
Autres entêtes
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Ar an seachtú lá de mí Méan Fómhair, scríobh Bertel Lund Hansen:
> Aidan Kehoe wrote:
>
> > > [...] I have confirmed that two of my sprogs, now wrapping up their
> > > thirties, are not familiar with "papoose". For another thread, note that
> > > they are also not familiar with "a month of Sundays".
> >
> > I suppose from your absence of clarification of where you are, that you’re
> > in the US? Though “sprog” is used more this side of the Atlantic.
>
> While Paul Juhl lived, he began writing in dk.kultur.sprog (sprog=
> language), and in one of his first messages he wrote a little joke about
> "sprog". He had to explain the word which I didn't know then. He learned
> british English in school, but I doubt that he knew "sprog" then. He
> spent his adult life (14+) in Canada.
There’s a very entertaining Reddit user who uses “Poem_for_your_Sprog” as a
nick.
https://old.reddit.com/user/Poem_for_your_SprogHe or she comes up with filthy, relevant rhymes very quickly after someone else
posts. Most of them are not appropriate for anyone’s sprog.
-- ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’(C. Moore)