Re: Good Grief: (was Re: another 3 layer gum attempt AFAIK,ixnay on actual *cadmium*

[Mark Nelson <ender100@aol.com>]

Oh!  I thought AFAIK was "A Furry Animal Inna Knickers". Hehehe

Mark Nelson

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On Jul 22, 2009, at 10:34 PM, Judy Seigel <jseigel@panix.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Clay wrote:
>
> > This is a combination of webspeak and pig latin - a digital age  
> > creole, in other words.
> >
> > Loose translation:
> >
> > As Far As I Know, no.
>
>
> Oh shucks, I thought "AFAIK" was an acronym we teenagers made  
> popular on our cell phones !  Tho now of course it's become a  
> familiar abbreviation (with an honorable history on this very list),  
> along the lines of TBC ("to be continued"), FWIT ("for what it's  
> worth")  and various others that don't come to mind at this moment.
>
> However, as far as "pig latin" is concerned, I beg to inform you  
> that it's the other way around:  So called "pig latin" is based on  
> the ancient language of "Ixnay," translated from the pre-Columbian  
> relics looted by Vasco deGama.
>
> J.