"TA" ???

[brammy]

Can anyone tell me what Paul used to mean when he would always say "TA" while introducing a song? Like here, for instance....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwOC6yyY ... re=related
I could never figure this one out.

[Bosifis1]

Where were they? After "Ta" he says "Ya".....maybe Germany? Ja??? Nein???

[wayang]

Some Brits (or Commonwealth members) will need to weigh in on this...my Kiwi friends used to say 'ta' a lot, in the kind of context that suggested expressing appreciation. I posited my own uninformed theory that maybe it stands for 'thanks awfully', but that just made them laugh...none of them could say for sure what it's derived from...

In Germany the equivalent 'no-meaning' word that means 'thanks' is 'chuss'...

[kiramdear]

If they were playing in Sweden he could've been trying to thank them. "Tak" is the appropriate term but maybe he's swallowed the "k" a bit

[scotty]

Sounds to me like TA and its just a way of saying thanks as the kids were screaming at them.http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ta

[winston]

Ta means thanks.

[gregga41]

Yep, ta is thanks!

[ricardo_vicente]

In Germany the equivalent 'no-meaning' word that means 'thanks' is 'chuss'...

"tschüs" means goodbye. It's an old Northern German word adpoted from Romance Languages, originally "ajüs", i.e. a Jüs = to God (equivalent of adieu, adiós etc.).

Best Regards

Language Nerd No. 1

[86kubicki]

My grandparents and great-uncles/aunts who were of Scottish decent used "ta" all the time as a way of saying "thank you".

[wayang]

"tschüs" means goodbye. It's an old Northern German word adpoted from Romance Languages, originally "ajüs", i.e. a Jüs = to God (equivalent of adieu, adiós etc.).

Thanks awfully...I mean, 'ta', Language Nerd No. 1, for setting me straight. I remembered that shopkeepers used to say tschus whenever I left their shops during the years I lived there as a kid, and I guess I misunderstood the meaning. I'm sure there are other examples of incorrect Deutsch floating around in my head.

I was living in the 'Pfalz', so could I just refer to my mistakes as 'Pfalz-Deutsch'?

[ricardo_vicente]

"tschüs" means goodbye. It's an old Northern German word adpoted from Romance Languages, originally "ajüs", i.e. a Jüs = to God (equivalent of adieu, adiós etc.).

Thanks awfully...I mean, 'ta', Language Nerd No. 1, for setting me straight. I remembered that shopkeepers used to say tschus whenever I left their shops during the years I lived there as a kid, and I guess I misunderstood the meaning. I'm sure there are other examples of incorrect Deutsch floating around in my head.

I was living in the 'Pfalz', so could I just refer to my mistakes as 'Pfalz-Deutsch'?

Now that's a whole language for itself right enough! Was your father in the Army out there?

[wayang]

Jawohl, Ricardo, good guess...Kreuzberg Kaserne, on the hill above Zweibrucken, '67-'69...

...aber mein Deutsch ist jetzt schrecklich...das tut mir sehr leid...

[brammy]

Yup, that answers it.
TA

[scotty]

Yup, that answers it.
TA

I so knew you were going to post that!

[winston]

Yup, that answers it.
TA

I so knew you were going to post that!

I reckon that he set us all up for this one post..............

Ta Kent.