BS: origin of : I'm just sayin'

Subject: BS: origin of : I'm just sayin'
From: open mike
Date: 31 May 10 - 08:19 AM

just wonderin'

Subject: RE: BS: origin of : I'm just sayin'
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 31 May 10 - 09:28 AM

I can't name a region or quote a scholar on this, but to me this has always been in the mouth of a working-class person with little power. It's always somebody like a driller's helper or the guy who pumps gas that says 'I'm just saying...."

Subject: RE: BS: origin of : I'm just sayin'
From: Arnie
Date: 31 May 10 - 09:49 AM

My sister says it all the time - and she's a nurse in the UK.

Subject: RE: BS: origin of : I'm just sayin'
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 31 May 10 - 11:20 AM

the one that gets on my tits is

"Ya know what I'm sayin" after every half phrase.


Arrrrgghhh!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: origin of : I'm just sayin'
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 31 May 10 - 11:48 AM

In certain parts of the U.S. VT, as you prob'ly know, that's shortened to "Nome sain?"

Subject: RE: BS: origin of : I'm just sayin'
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 31 May 10 - 11:51 AM

snork...

yup... shore iz.