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From: ciaraldi@rochester.UUCP (Mike Ciaraldi)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Getting hosed
Message-ID: <4731@rochester.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 3-Feb-84 22:27:28 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  3 22:27:28 1984
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This is an aside. The author of the article to which this
is a followup said that a hack is something you said "YAH"
to. I first encountered this usage in stories by Larry
Niven, many of whose characters say "Yah" when they want
a casual affirmative (as opposed to the formal "Yes".)
Until now, I never knew anyone who actually talked
that way.
Everyone I know says "Yeah". That is the way it is spelled,
and the dipthong is promounced like the "a" in "bat"
or "man".
I have always assumed that "Yah" would be pronounced
like "ah", since otherwise the writer would have used
the more conventional "yeah".

Or is this just a California spelling for "yeah"?

Mike Ciaraldi
ciaraldi@rochester