 AchLstStnd
Male, 30-39, Southern US
 131 Posts
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Sunday, October 25, 2009 10:59:13 PM
I was watching the game and I wondered who else saw that. Damn Yankees. |
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 Samsonite219
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
442 Posts
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Sunday, October 25, 2009 9:41:03 PM
oh yeah jeter...lemme get at that |
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 Adamam
Male, 13-17, Europe
59 Posts
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Sunday, October 25, 2009 8:06:05 PM
'Yoeri I think your theory is wrong. Well Kees isn't even pronounced like "keys" it's more like "case", so why would it become yankees?'O_O. You dont say potatoe as potarto, regardless of the catchy song T-T British say pronounce it yankees, so, theres your words smushed into a mucky beverage :( |
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 amped35
Male, 13-17, Eastern US
239 Posts
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Sunday, October 25, 2009 7:30:03 PM
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 Robert_D
Male, 18-29, Canada
477 Posts
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Sunday, October 25, 2009 7:24:49 PM
emily1991, probably because the english speakers are notorious for prouncing foreign words the way they think they "should" be pronounced rather than trying to pronounce them the proper way? |
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 emily1991
Female, 18-29, Europe
78 Posts
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Sunday, October 25, 2009 3:38:47 PM
Yoeri I think your theory is wrong. Well Kees isn't even pronounced like "keys" it's more like "case", so why would it become yankees? |
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 igotaferret
Male, 13-17, Eastern US
109 Posts
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Sunday, October 25, 2009 12:38:31 PM
idk y they have to do that
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 Yoeri
Male, 18-29, Europe
241 Posts
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Sunday, October 25, 2009 8:22:15 AM
It is drived from two very very common dutch names back in the day. Jan & Kees, when the english would talk about the dutch settelement on Manna Hatta, they would say, all those Jans and Kees' up there, over time it became yankee. |
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 DVLDRVR666
Male, 13-17, Canada
618 Posts
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Saturday, October 24, 2009 11:20:38 PM
who didnt see jeter and a-rod were gay? |
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amped35
Male, 13-17, Eastern US
239 Posts
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Saturday, October 24, 2009 8:59:55 PM
Actually, he is pulling on his pants to get a boost up to the stairs, i saw the .gif |
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BBQ
Male, 18-29, Europe
239 Posts
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Saturday, October 24, 2009 8:01:18 PM
So.. The yanks are gay, we knew that. Get me somethign new! |
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MrCalves
Male, 13-17, Midwest US
29 Posts
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Saturday, October 24, 2009 7:20:34 PM
Kate Hudson is so jealous right now |
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 BunnyNaku
Female, 18-29, Midwest US
2107 Posts
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Saturday, October 24, 2009 6:52:24 PM
rofl@vorpal |
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 Morrigann
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
177 Posts
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Saturday, October 24, 2009 6:37:40 PM
it's supposed to be a quick slap coach, not grab a handful. But still...it's jeter. Who wouldnt? |
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 Geoman
Male, 40-49, Eastern US
85 Posts
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Saturday, October 24, 2009 5:49:26 PM
Thats slapping his butt
Now if he were yanking his d*ck
Then I could see the Yankee connection |
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 Dilluxia
Female, 18-29, Canada
93 Posts
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Saturday, October 24, 2009 4:28:23 PM
Oriental dude is like..... "get your hands off MY booty biatch!" xD |
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 vorpalsword
Male, 13-17, Western US
535 Posts
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Saturday, October 24, 2009 3:43:50 PM
sorry murry ,i was just uh.. checking for butt cheek cancer, yeah thats it |
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 specialque
Female, 13-17, Eastern US
518 Posts
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Saturday, October 24, 2009 3:40:54 PM
uhm its derek jeter, who wouldnt slap his ass. |
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 RPbaby
Female, 18-29, Southern US
31 Posts
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Saturday, October 24, 2009 3:15:23 PM
wow... |
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 Fatninja01
Male, 18-29, Australia
1114 Posts
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Saturday, October 24, 2009 3:14:46 PM
just dont want him 2 fall back isnt that y he is holding him |
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 Blitzdrache
Male, 13-17, Southern US
152 Posts
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Saturday, October 24, 2009 2:28:28 PM
Exactly what I expected.//not sarcastic |
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 BABY_BEAR
Female, 18-29, Europe
1256 Posts
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Saturday, October 24, 2009 2:02:31 PM
wow, looks like he's been storing that up all day. |
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 Enchilada
Female, 70 & Over, Eastern US
900 Posts
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Saturday, October 24, 2009 1:51:48 PM
Americans ftl. |
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Angilion
Male, 40-49, Europe
1448 Posts
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Saturday, October 24, 2009 1:18:50 PM
Alternatively...John Bull was a character representing England in some popular political satires. 'Janke' could have been a diminuitive Dutch form of 'John', which could have been used by Dutch settlers to insult English settlers. Somewhat like calling USA people 'Sammy' as a diminuitive form of {uncle) Sam. |
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Angilion
Male, 40-49, Europe
1448 Posts
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Saturday, October 24, 2009 1:05:06 PM
"i thought it was threw dutch settlement..
the blokes were named Yan
the females were named Kee(or well at least pronounced that way)" Probably Dutch, yes, but how likely is it that all the men in the settlement had the same name and all the women had the same name? 'Jan Kees', was a derisive way to refer to Dutch people, back in the day. People took some negative stereotypes of Dutch people and attached a fairly silly name to them (it would be 'John Cheese' in English) to use as an insult. It would be roughly like making an exagerrated character of a slow-witted white trash redneck bigot, calling it something like Billy-Bob and then calling people from the USA 'Billibobs'. It seems that Dutch and English colonists took to using it to insult each other and it stuck. 'j' in most European languages is pronounced much like 'y' in English, hence 'yankees'. |
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