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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:	The Joy of Lex
Notice:	A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:	THEBAY::SYSTEM

Created:	Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:	Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1192
Total number of notes:	42769

897.0. "Analogs to "See you later, alligator"?!" by PENUTS::HNELSON (Hoyt 275-3407 C/RDB/SQL/X/Motif) Tue Jul 02 1991 16:14

    There are the expressions:
    
        See you later, alligator.
        In a while, crocodile.
    
    I've invented:
    
        Manyana, iguana.              ! How *does* one spell "manyana"?
        'Til later on, chameleon.     ! Somewhat weak example
    
    The general form is
    
        <denote time in the future> <reptile>
    
    It helps if the two components have the same number of syllables. The
    two parts have to rhyme, of course.
    
    Can you think of more?

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
897.1		ULYSSE::WADE		`Tue Jul 02 1991 16:23`	3
	[I think ma�ana is spelled ma�ana?]
897.2		LEZAH::BOBBITT	the colors and shapes of kindness	`Tue Jul 02 1991 20:34`	16
	Actually, on Bobby McFerrin's first album, spontaneous inventions, he has a song that has see ya later, alligater after a while, crocodile okey dokey, artichokey ma�ana, iguana I suppose if you listen to Dr. D. on Sunday nights you could do "a bient�t, demento"... -Jody
897.3	A different pace of life	AYOV27::ISMITH	Off to Severance City	`Wed Jul 03 1991 10:57`	9
	.2� ma�ana, iguana I was speaking to a colleague the other day who hails from Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. He told me the story of someone once asking what the Gaelic for ma�ana was, and being told that Gaelic has no word which conveys such a sense of urgency. Ian.
897.4	Generalizing .0: <Leave-taking salutation>, <Proper noun>	RT95::KALIKOW		`Sat Jul 06 1991 06:47`	19
	Well. Guess there aren't too many departing reptiles out there. ... I could only think of one of these that involves an ANIMAL, much less a reptile -- the Hebrew farewell... Pardon the bending of the rules for the rest... There seem to be many more nouns denoting people than reptiles, and the cross-language stuff adds to the combinatory potential... L'hitraot, stoat! Auf wiedersehen, Thane! Ciao, Frau! Vamoose, papoose! A bient�t, bro! Hasta la vista, sister!
897.5	Let's make like a banana and split	ESGWST::RDAVIS	Of course, I'm just a cricket...	`Mon Jul 08 1991 18:40`	2
	Allons-y, Alonso!
897.6		JIT081::DIAMOND	Order temporarily out of personal name	`Thu Jul 11 1991 04:32`	20
	Let's make like rn and quit... Old Reservoirs! Our Feet Are Stained! I'll Steal your Visa! Pasta linguine (also fits redundency catagory!) Bogus Tacos Ciao Mein Ciao-der (as in clam) Osmosis amoeba! Dog spit on ya! Stimya-later Smellya-later Hostile Video! Audio Visual Hasta lumbago Auf Weinerschnitzel Hostile Bananas I'll steal a vega! Take a daisy
897.7		JIT081::DIAMOND	Order temporarily out of personal name	`Thu Jul 11 1991 04:37`	9
	I am told that the word "sayo" in some Filipino dialect means "your." (I don't recall if that is the national dialect or not.) And that some Filipino didn't know the word that his Japanese friend spoke when leaving after a visit. However, nara and acacia both being kinds of trees, the exchange went: "Sayonara." "Sayo acacia."
897.8	I may be out of my depth in this conference (3 mm)	PENUTS::HNELSON	Hoyt 275-3407 C/RDB/SQL/X/Motif	`Thu Jul 11 1991 21:56`	12
	OK, that didn't work. "You're cruising for a bruising." right? How about "You're trawling for a mauling" bleeting for a beating asking for a trashing thrashing etc.
897.9	Who's a lucky duck?	AUSSIE::WHORLOW	Bushies do it for FREE!	`Fri Jul 12 1991 07:51`	7
	G'day, That's not fair, Koala Bear! derek