Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site rochester.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!rochester!ciaraldi 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 Article-I.D.: rocheste.4731 Posted: Fri Feb 3 22:27:28 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Feb-84 10:16:39 EST References: <169@princeton.UUCP>, <1213@mit-eddie.UUCP> Organization: U. of Rochester, CS Dept. Lines: 18 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