*** Quoting Nathan Prugh from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

 >very general 'gist'.
 >

NP> gist? what's that?

Gist in this case means 'summary'.  May be pronounced with hard G or j
sound ¨and 'ist' depending on the accent of the speaker which is very
'regional' in ¨the USA.

It means 'undrstood what you said, generally though may have some of the
¨details a bit wrong'.

                                       xxcarol

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