--- Carsten Becker <naranoieati@...>
wrote:
> On Monday 27 December 2004 08:01, Philip Newton
> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 17:21:45 -0800, Gary Shannon
> <fiziwig@yahoo.com <mailto:fiziwig@...>>
> wrote:
> > > "Magoefrawawk."
> >
> > Djeetchet?
>
> Please, for a furriner, could you explain what
> "Djeetchet?"
<snip>
"Did you eat yet?"
The usual exchange is:
A: "Djeet?" (Did you eat?)
B: "Nachet. Djew?" (Not yet. Did you?")
I believe I first saw this exchange in an article in
the Reader's Digest in the early or mid 1960's.
--gary