Posted on 01/14/2017 12:04:53 PM PST by nickcarraway
I searched the article for a reference to the word “skosh”. In Japan the word ends with an i, pronounced skoh-shee, and meaning “a little bit” or “a small amount”. It gets used in English parlance shortened to “skosh”. Would you like more coffee? Yes, just a skosh.
“Hey GI, you go PX more skosh, catch me Greenex?” “Daijobu!”
Japan’s WWII ally was known as Adorufu Hitora. Look up cartoonist Bill Hume’s “Babysan” for more lingo lessons.
She looks a little like Kellyanne Conway.
My spare glasses are what were known as ZPGs. Black, thick plastic.
I am apparently trendy.
Silly hipsters.
It’s safe. Think metrosexual but going for the bearded and plaid shirt urban lumberjack look instead.
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I am reliving the seventies when urban wealthy women used to come here to north country to get themselves a genuine woods man and bring him back to NYC to show him off. Very trendy back then.
Okay is possibly the first word understood everywhere. People in India can’t say it just once but repeat it 4 times.
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