{"id":339278,"date":"2010-02-19T10:16:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T15:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=2127"},"modified":"2010-02-19T10:16:27","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T15:16:27","slug":"it-doesnt-entirely-unjibe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/339278","title":{"rendered":"“It doesn’t entirely unjibe”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jane Velez-Michell interviews<\/a> Amy Bishop’s friend Rob Dinsmore (this segment begins about 4:58 into the video clip embedded after the jump):<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
JV-M<\/td>\n<\/td>\nSo police say, Rob, they called nine one one on the neighborhood kids a whole bunch of times, that she stopped an ice cream truck from coming into the neighborhood, she was upset about the dirt bikes, about the uh motorized bikes, about any bikes, um and she would- apparently they would even videotape the kids in their neighborhood uh to try to intimidate them. Now does that jibe with the person you know?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
RD:<\/td>\n<\/td>\nUm it doesn’t entirely unjibe. The um she used to complain about that neighborhood all the time, and now it’s a very insular little neighborhood, it’s like a a little circular drive or a- a cul-de-sac or something, the way I remember it, …<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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According to the OED, jibe<\/em> is an American invention, of obscure origin (“perh. phonetically related to chime<\/em>“), meaning “To chime in (with)<\/em>; to be in harmony or accord; to agree”.<\/p>\n

There don’t seem to be any prior uses of the form unjibe<\/em> on the web, though perhaps I haven’t searched diligently enough. It makes perfect sense in this context.<\/p>\n

[Hat tip to reader MLR.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jane Velez-Michell interviews Amy Bishop’s friend Rob Dinsmore (this segment begins about 4:58 into the video clip embedded after the jump): JV-M So police say, Rob, they called nine one one on the neighborhood kids a whole bunch of times, that she stopped an ice cream truck from coming into the neighborhood, she was upset […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}