[78-L] Rudy Vallee VICTOR Chinese Japanese?? ^

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Sun Dec 19 18:04:27 PST 2010


Just for the record, I didn't write that! As for beri, baseball been beri beri 
good to me.

dl

On 12/19/2010 8:40 PM, Steven C. Barr wrote:
> From: "David Lennick"<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>> What do "aberivate" and "derogerty" mean? Is the latter meant as a
>>> slight to Irishmen? Better to say "Mick" or "Paddy".
>>>
> Well, we can analyze "derogerty"...?! First, "de" meams "without" or "to
> remove"...?! and the suffix "ty" means "has" or "contains." That leaves
> us with "roger" which means "Received in full!" Thus "derogerty" means
> "Denying that the mesage was received fully and correctly, in spite of
> any previous statements to that effect...?!"
>
> "Aberivate" is more complicated...near as I can guess, it means "to
> remove 'beri' from...whatever "beri" (other than half a diseasel
> "beri-beri"...?!) is?!
>
> Steven C. Barr
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