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Re: childish pronunciation of "Christophe"

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Monday, March 15, 1999, 11:53
At 20:52 14/03/99 -0500, you wrote:
>On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 16:31:04 -0600 Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> writes: >>Nik Taylor wrote: >>> I never had any (but then >>> again, /nIk/ doesn't lend itself to easy manipulation). > >>I take that back, I have had distortions on my name. In Spanish >>class, >>I was called "Nico". Later, someone dubbed me "Nico Suave" (pun based >>on the singer "Rico Suave"), a friend of mine picked it up, and so >>it's >>stuck. My brother, in turn, has created the distortion /nikow >>swr=vej/ >>or /nikoh swarvej/. There's also the purely orthographic distortion >>N~ico Sua~ve, among others. /nik/ is also sometimes heard. >> > >Uhoh, sorry Nik, in my class's slang jargon (created mostly by the >Greenspan brothers), "neek" means "to have sex with". It's similar to >"nish"/"neesh", which means "to urinate", as in the common sentence >"Meesh (=Michelle), i'm gonna nish on your head!" The noun form of >"neek" is "neekage", /'nikIdZ/. Although, it might not be a >Greenspanism....it could be Syrian. >
Could "neek" come from French? We use the slang word "niquer" /nike/ to mean "to have sex with".
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