Batchin' It: Day 5

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I woke up. I went to work. Leora came home. I came home. Discreet fadeout

Comments

[aedifica]

I don't say it myself, but I definitely recognized the phrase. I'm not sure where from, though. (I think of it as a '50s sort of expression, but is it?)

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I think of it as a '50s sort of expression, but is it?

That would make immense amounts of sense. The playwright was the right age for it, and while the play's timeline is mind-bogglingly vague, the character who uses the phrase could easily have been a '50s sort of guy.

(Hey! It's in the dictionary, of all things! Apparently "bach" is the more common spelling. I tried it that way, but it looked weird. First usage recorded as 1865 but no word as to when [if ever] it was common.)

[mmerriam]

"batchin' it" is still a fairly common phrase in place like Oklahoma and Texas. I heard it all the time when I lived in those states.

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Ah-hah! Then I'm not crazy! Not about this, anyway.

[half_double]

bach (also batch); verb: to live as a bachelor; especially: to keep house in the absence of a wife

Apparently, it's supposed to be spelled without the "t". But that looked wrong to me, so I popped it back in.

[avatarofchaos]

For a while I thought you were talking about making a batch of posts about your days. Then, briefly, I thought it had something to do with knitting. Then I put it together!

[half_double]

Huh. Do knitters batch things?

[avatarofchaos]

batches of yarn dye, really. not a formal knitting thing, but yarn related.

[thistle333]

I've never heard it used, but recognized it. But then, I have a peculiar love for out-dated slang -- so I enjoyed seeing you use it!

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I have a peculiar love for out-dated slang

So do I! One of my friends claims that other people know when he's been spending a lot of time with me because of how often he says "Keen".