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Re: substitutes for everything

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3/14/2003 2:37 PM

Re: substitutes for everything

It's one of those words (like brouhaha) that I'd like to find the origins of. I'm pretty sure I know where "copasetic" comes from, though. The Hebrew phrase "kol b'seder" means "everything is in order" or "ship-shape", and could also be used to imply "everything's cool" in the same manner. The intermingling of jazz and New York yiddish culture during the jazz era increases the likelihood of that origin. It is likely a corruption of the pronunciation, the way that the occupying Brits reshaped the Hindi word "jaggananth" to be "juggernaut".

3/14/2003 10:59 PM
Igor	Oh, man, I need to re-check my english vocabulary if I'm planning on visiting this forum in the future

3/15/2003 1:09 AM

I used a 2N3906 PNP for PNP transistors such as 2SA1048, 2SA1335 and 2SA970. And J201 instead of 2SK118 and 2SK184.

Is that OK?

I've just read an article about Boss effects and the guy said that it's good to replace the transistor in the high-input-impedance audio signal buffers with JFETs. What do you think?

The FET switch that I want to use is a Boss switch from the SD-1 schematic I have. It has 2SC732 in the buffers (I've replaced it with 2N5088), 2SK30 FETs for switching (I've replaced that with BF245) and 2SC1685 also in the switch (replaced that with BC548). I hope that's OK.

3/20/2003 11:15 PM
M	I heard "copasetic" was the name of laxative and so it became slang to everything is "copasetic", meaning smooth. But dictionary.com says the origin is unknown.

3/27/2003 4:35 PM

I suspect the same dictionary will also tell you the term arises in the hipster era, and probably from the New York area. Guys like Cab Calloway were frequently mingling a bit of Yiddish in their jibe since both blacks and immigrant Jews occupied adjacent chunks of Manhattan island. My money is on the "kol b'seder" origin since its normal use is virtually identical to the intended usage of "copasetic". Even now, Israelis use it just like "everything's cool, baby".

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