Comments | warlordenfilade: Pie in the bye

warlordenfilade

Pie in the bye

Jul 19, 2006 21:41

Poor Dylan. Ever since he started surgery rotation, he gets up at 5, works from 6 am to 6 pm, comes home, tries to do work, and ends up falling asleep out of exhaustion. He's tired all the time, and I do my best to pick up the slack, but this week and next, I'm working full time hours in addition to full time thesis work. It's insane ( Read more... )

insanity, bye

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rotty_0079 July 23 2006, 02:49:47 UTC

He's sleepy-pie (pie=asleep) in the beddy-bye (bye=bed) right now.

Okay, I'm curious here. Are those suffixes linguistically portable, or would "sleepy" be the only word where the suffix "pie" means "asleep"? Do "pie" and "bye" function as standalone words meaning "asleep" and "bed", or is it that they act as suffixes adding emphasis to any word they're attached to?

warlordenfilade July 23 2006, 16:18:43 UTC

They stand alone in our household.... "pie" is "sleepy" and "bye" is "bed"...I think it's an offshoot of the infamous KittyTalk...

bitty = itty bitty kitty, poly = roly-polying, etc.

I don't know why we play with language like this.

The worst part is, I've got LOTS of people using "bitty" as a word now for a very small kitten.