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Discussion Groups / English Usage / February 2010Hiassen: And wait'll he finds
Hello: I imagine "'ll" is a contraction for "until/till," right? Informal speech, I guess. ---- "And wait'll he finds the lipstick!" Carl Hiaasen, Skinny Dip, p. 85 ---- -- Thanks. Marius Hancu In our last episode, <4f1ee6bb-36fc-404c-852c-84eb613fb0b9@19g2000yql.googlegroups.com>, the lovely and talented Marius Hancu broadcast on alt.usage.english: > Hello: > I imagine "'ll" is a contraction for "until/till," right? Yes. > Informal speech, I guess. Yes. > ---- > "And wait'll he finds the lipstick!" > Carl Hiaasen, Skinny Dip, p. 85 > ---- > -- > Thanks. > Marius Hancu  SignatureLars Eighner <http://larseighner.com/> Warbama's Afghaninam day: 65 1566.6 hours since Warbama declared Viet Nam II. Warbama: An LBJ for the Twenty-First century. No hope. No change. > > I imagine "'ll" is a contraction for "until/till," right? > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > "And wait'll he finds the lipstick!" > > Carl Hiaasen, Skinny Dip, p. 85 Thanks. Marius Hancu > > > I imagine "'ll" is a contraction for "until/till," right? > > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > > "And wait'll he finds the lipstick!" > > > Carl Hiaasen, Skinny Dip, p. 85 "Wait'll you" has 2 million web hits, followed by see, hear, meet, get, etc. Marius, This might be a good time to tell you about 'chew'. Many people say "I want chew" etc. Wait'll you hear "Messiah" and the tenor sings "Comfort chee" instead of "Comfort ye". It's a lazy tongue habit of many of Americans. It's almost as bad as "neck shear" for "next year". Vacating soapbox now. > This might be a good time to tell you about 'chew'. Many people say > "I want chew" etc. Wait'll you hear "Messiah" and the tenor sings > "Comfort chee" instead of "Comfort ye". It's a lazy tongue habit of > many of Americans. > > It's almost as bad as "neck shear" for "next year". I think I can hear those sometimes:-) Thanks. Marius Hancu >> This might be a good time to tell you about 'chew'. Many people say "I >> want chew" etc. Wait'll you hear "Messiah" and the tenor sings [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > I think I can hear those sometimes:-) But NB an extended version of Skitt's Law is in action here: "many of Americans" ain't English. And I'm none too sure about "tongue habit". SignatureRoland Hutchinson He calls himself "the Garden State's leading violist da gamba," ... comparable to being ruler of an exceptionally small duchy. --Newark (NJ) Star Ledger ( http://tinyurl.com/RolandIsNJ ) >>> This might be a good time to tell you about 'chew'. Many people say "I >>> want chew" etc. Wait'll you hear "Messiah" and the tenor sings [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >But NB an extended version of Skitt's Law is in action here: "many of >Americans" ain't English. And I'm none too sure about "tongue habit". You've detached "tongue" from "lazy". I understand "lazy tongue" to mean a careless and (grammatically or otherwise) incorrect manner of speaking. "A lazy tongue habit" is a habit of speaking with "lazy longue". The phrase was much used by the currently-absent Purl Gurl. SignaturePeter Duncanson, UK (in alt.usage.english) >"A lazy tongue habit" is a habit of speaking with "lazy >longue". Er... "tongue". Typing with "lazy hand"? "lazy longue" takes us into previously-explored chaise-longue territory. Would a chaise-longue equipped with an internet connection, screen, keyboard, etc. to enable the sending of newsgroup messages and emails be a "post chaise"? SignaturePeter Duncanson, UK (in alt.usage.english) > >> This might be a good time to tell you about 'chew'. Many people say "I > >> wantchew" etc. Wait'll you hear "Messiah" and the tenor sings > >> "Comfort chee" instead of "Comfort ye". It's a lazy tongue habit of > >> many of Americans. > > >> It's almost as bad as "neck shear" for "next year". > But NB an extended version of Skitt's Law is in action here: "many of > Americans" ain't English. And I'm none too sure about "tongue habit". AAAGH - you got me on that one. I didn't really mean "many OF Americans". I knows better. In ashes and sackcloth, I hang my head in shame. >> >> This might be a good time to tell you about 'chew'. Many people say >> >> "I wantchew" etc. Wait'll you hear "Messiah" and the tenor sings [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > Americans". I knows better. > In ashes and sackcloth, I hang my head in shame. It's okay, really! All of us here have done worse at one time or another, I daresay--if not mistakes of grammar or construction (yclept "performance errors" when made by native speakers), then surely of editing or of typing. To say nothing of thinking... SignatureRoland Hutchinson He calls himself "the Garden State's leading violist da gamba," ... comparable to being ruler of an exceptionally small duchy. --Newark (NJ) Star Ledger ( http://tinyurl.com/RolandIsNJ ) |
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