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BS: origin of : I'm just sayin'

31 May 10 - 08:19 AM (#2917613)
Subject: BS: origin of : I'm just sayin'
From: open mike

just wonderin'


31 May 10 - 09:28 AM (#2917634)
Subject: RE: BS: origin of : I'm just sayin'
From: GUEST,leeneia

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...."


31 May 10 - 09:49 AM (#2917642)
Subject: RE: BS: origin of : I'm just sayin'
From: Arnie

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


31 May 10 - 11:20 AM (#2917716)
Subject: RE: BS: origin of : I'm just sayin'
From: VirginiaTam

the one that gets on my tits is

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


Arrrrgghhh!!!!


31 May 10 - 11:48 AM (#2917734)
Subject: RE: BS: origin of : I'm just sayin'
From: Seamus Kennedy

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


31 May 10 - 11:51 AM (#2917736)
Subject: RE: BS: origin of : I'm just sayin'
From: VirginiaTam

snork...

yup... shore iz.