Making Light:  Open Thread 37 ::: March 21, 2005, 03:07 PM

Xopher:

  Eventually, of course, it will simply become a greeting or
  validiction.  "OK, I'll see you Saturday."  "OK, Whoa Re."
  "Whoa Re."

I thought it was an imperative along the lines of "Can".  Such as,
"Whoa re the obsessive search for meaning in that typo!"  Or as
Butch Cassidy might have typed, "Whoa re those guys!"