Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 15:56:05 -0800

From: Sylvia Swift madonna[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]VIOLET.BERKELEY.EDU

Subject: Re: Letterman the linguist?



On Fri, 3 Nov 1995, Jerry Miller wrote:



Of late, David Letterman has been using a word, "gespinkto" (or

"gesfinkto"?), which seems to mean something like "finished," "kaput,"

(it's) "history." Does anyone know if this word has any basis in reality, or

is it just something our gap-toothed goofball from Indiana dreamed up?



i hate to practice seat-of-the-pants etymology, but surely this is

"gesphincto" = having been sphinctered = having passed through the

sphincter = having been processed and discarded. is ge + root + o

pseudo-german?



sylvia swift

madonna[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]violet