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To: Chi-townChief
22. "Jieetyet": this is used to ask "did you eat yet"?

Hey, they stole that from us New Yorkers! :-)

(in fact, as I read the list, it seems that fully half of the items could refer to NY, too).

Most NY lists like this include the ubiquitous:
Jeet?
No, jew?

And, of course, as all NYers know, the proper response to the question, "How ya doin'? is, of course, ..... "How ya doin?"

:-)

8 posted on 08/20/2003 6:00:03 PM PDT by saquin
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To: saquin
As a Noo Yawkah transplanted to Chicago, it took me a while to say I was from Chicawgo, and to say 'over by dere' instead of 'owa deyah'.
95 posted on 08/20/2003 7:29:58 PM PDT by Salman (Mickey Akbar)
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To: saquin
And, of course, as all NYers know, the proper response to the question, "How ya doin'? is, of course, ..... "How ya doin?"

Ed Koch, when he was Mayor, had the tag line "How'm I doin". A few years later he stopped when people started imitating his voice saying "What'm I doin".

103 posted on 08/20/2003 7:33:11 PM PDT by Salman (Mickey Akbar)
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To: saquin
"they stole that from us New Yorkers"

And both stole it from us southerners. ;-)

199 posted on 08/20/2003 8:53:05 PM PDT by sweetliberty ("Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same thing as being right in doing it.")
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To: saquin
Hey, they stole that from us New Yorkers! :-)

No way ... that's a southern thing.

"Jeetjet?"

"Nope"

"Yontoo?"

"Aight."

239 posted on 08/21/2003 7:28:04 AM PDT by al_c
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