Re: childish pronunciation of "Christophe"

At 19:02 15/03/99 -0500, you wrote:
>On Mon, 15 Mar 1999 12:53:20 +0100 Christophe Grandsire
><Christophe.Grandsire@...> writes:
>>>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".
>>                                                        Christophe
>Grandsire
>>                                                |Sela Jemufan Atlinan
>
>Since it turns out that it's not a Greenspanism after all, since it was
>mentioned that it's Lebanese, it could also have entered French from the
>Lebanon/Syria area during the mandate era or later through immigration.
>
        it's possible indeed... But in France it has very much spread! :)

>
>-Stephen (Steg)
> "hhalomot zeh b'emet"
>
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                                                        Christophe Grandsire
                                                |Sela Jemufan Atlinan C.G.

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