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[lene morissette]

Hi evry1. I was just wondering wot " Ya sure, ya betcha" means. In 'Small Victories' O'Neill says " Ya sure, ya betcha sumthing." Wot was the last word and wot does it mean? I'm from Manchester and I think that it is an American expression so I'm confused. Can ne1 help me please?

 

[Anni]

Um..... well it might mean a few different things in a few different parts of the US..... but I take it to mean the following:


Ya sure.... you betcha=Yes.... of course. You bet!

As for the last word.... I don't have the foggiest idea, but then I don't sit and try to decipher every single little word in a script. Not that there's anything wrong with doing that. It's just that I couldn't be bothered to be that specific!

 

[lene morissette]

Thanx Anni! My mom thought that it might mean sumthing like that but I wanted 2 b sure. Does ne1 know wot that other word was? Ne nitpickers out there who figured it out coz it sounded like sum alien word. Was he under the influence of the Asgard technology again!?!

 

[spookypumpkin]

The line is (and i'm not sure how this is spelt, but) "ya sure you betcha snookums."

He says it in reply to "have fun" so translated, I take it to mean "yep, you bet" or that kinda thing.

Sam also repeats it later in the ep.

:eek4:

 

[lene morissette]

Thanx Spooky! Where r there ne scripts for stargate on the net? I can't find ne newhere and I can't remember y Sam says "ya sure, ya betcha" It's really bugging me!!!!!!!

Ooooh! My mom just said that 'snookums' means Hun/sugar/baby etc. u get the pic!?!?!?! That just put this on my top ten list of shippy eps!!!!!!!!!!

 

[spookypumpkin]

there are "episode stanscripts" on http://sg1fans.net/

and if you go to the STARGATE part of http://www.rdanderson.com there are some "memorable quotes in the mission archives...

pleased to be of service <<i think it all boils down to the fact that i watch WAAAY too much stargate...

 

[spookypumpkin]

Originally posted by lene morissette
Ooooh! My mom just said that 'snookums' means Hun/sugar/baby etc. u get the pic!?!?!?! That just put this on my top ten list of shippy eps!!!!!!!!!!

lol, thanx 4 that lene.... that's CUUUUUTE!!!!!!:blush: :blush:

 

[CynVision]

Originally posted by lene morissette
Thanx Spooky! Where r there ne scripts for stargate on the net? I can't find ne newhere and I can't remember y Sam says "ya sure, ya betcha" It's really bugging me!!!!!!!

Ooooh! My mom just said that 'snookums' means Hun/sugar/baby etc. u get the pic!?!?!?! That just put this on my top ten list of shippy eps!!!!!!!!!!

A lot of stuff might be midwestern in one way or another. That whole Minnesota connection they try to play with. I went to college in Wisconsin and just going an hour north and sharing dorms with a bunch of kids from even further north brought me in to even stranger expressions. "Slicker than owl s*** off a wet limb" comes to mind. Or water fountains being called "bubblers" (but that might be very eastern USA, too.)

I think they just playing up that Jack is older and that expression sounds like some around when I was a kid. FCOL was another one that I remember using before all the rougher words started appearing on TV. That was long before I started doing theatre work and a good scathing swear is sometimes the only coment to utter when the set breaks or the effect don't fire.

I get a kick out of Jack's little store of them. I love them because I use a lot of my dad's favorites and this confuses the hell out of all the younger kids at work.

 

[spookypumpkin]

cool!

u got any more, coz i like having something witty to say that confuses people, but doesn't get me put in the withdrawal unit at school for swearing at teachers!!!

perhaps we could start a thread of them... i'd love to hear them!!!

xox :eek4:

 

[Sioku]

a withdraw unit?!

We get a suspension if we swear at teachers!
I knew a guy who called the Headmaster a bald ba$tard and got expelled!!

:flash:

 

[spookypumpkin]

the withdrawal unit is a little room upstairs above the staff room, and perportrators get put in there on their own (with out friends, but under the supervision of a teacher) to work for however many hours, often just 4 the rest of the day, sometimes all week!

the idea is death by boredom

i am glad to say i have never been "put" there, but i have often been asked to take work up to students in there, coz i am a RESPONSIBLE person

hee hee:evil: