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streekgeek,
Please tell me you did that on purpose.
What?
Another peeve of mine: “I’m so nauseous” Do you actually possess the ability to produce nausea in others, or are you just nauseated??????
Re-read your post.
funny how some people don’t know the difference between “their” and “they’re”
live right- You’re post really hit home. (lol streak)
I just wrote a college essay and used the words “staying by” in it (not for a frum program). Luckily my friend read it and pointed it out- I literally headdesked.
@truthsharer – yup, re-read my post and it’s written exactly as I wanted it to be 🙂
:O thats like so not nrml! kk 🙂
I hear why you wouldn’t post it but it seriously makes me cringe when people use it this way. I believe its just a lack of awareness which is why I tried mentioning it. But then again, we play by your rules so I’m not going to push this further.
No problem, you’re good.
I agree, your fine! 😉
Oi so late to a thread. New Yorkers: When in Israel, when approached by tourists and asked “Do you speak English?”, be honest. You speak New Yorkish, a dialect inclusive of all the examples above, and of course ‘cawfee, and dawgs.
twisted- you’re wrong. New Yorkers have an accent more similar to your own lot, ‘cwoafy and dowgs’. It is the Canadian and Californians who drink cawfee and have dawgs.
Like, totally, man.
I’ll admit I’m a bit lost about the direction in which this conversation is going, but since when has that stopped me from having any fun?
this is one conversation that i really love.
You see i speak three languages.
Let’s take these examples. In Ivrit, if you want to say that you spoke to someone wiht no one but no one else, you say “be’arba einayim” which when transalted to english, makes no sense.
Even from Ivrit to yiddish, in ivrit you say ???? ??? ?? ????? ???? but in yiddish ??? ??? ??? ???? ???? ??????.
Here in e”y one hears the whole mistransalations between all three languages, and from Biblical hebrew
New York says “coffee and dogs”. Brooklyn says “Cwoafy and dowgs”. Brooklyn also says things like “cheer” for “chair” and “beer” for “bear” (“Beers are non-kosher animals”)
I agree, your fine! 😉
Bookworm – lol! Thanks for your vote of confidence 😉
Thanks. 🙂
When you go to Israel and ask a typical sabra Israeli “Do you speak English?” they reply “No” in English. Ironic, huh?
When you thank someone and they answer back with thanks. Ironic, huh?
Oh dear, I had a brain freeze moment.
You’re welcome. ^_^
I hate lose and loose. I see this all the time in advertisements. To lose weight, not loose weight. I just lose it!
streekgeek: That’s actually a mistake that was made common by a TV show a few years ago. “Nauseous” can mean the same as “nauseated”. “Noxious” means it induces nausea.
Sam2 – That is so interesting. I’ve read up on this a bit and it seems that over time the meaning of nauseous changed due to people’s misuse of it. Now this is evolution in progress. Cool!
OMG I sound like such a geek.
Here are a couple of good ones I’ve overheard;
1) Chasidish woman looking for a ride: “Are you with car?”
2) Boro Park woman to contractor: “Put me in a toilet on de second floor”
Streek
What’s wrong with being a geek?
WIY – Absolutely nothing. If I did think there was something wrong my username would look a lot different. I just feel that I usually don’t let my geeky side show through a lot over here while in real life I get called geek so many times a day it’s quite humorous.
Lol. Why do people call u geek? Because you know stuff that nobody knows?
WIY – Pretty much. I’m one of those who can spew out random facts and complete a NY Times crossword puzzle but won’t recognize someone I spent my summer with two years ago…
@BoysWork – I am cracking up. It’s one thing to ask a pregnant woman “Are you with child?” but that’s kind of old-fashioned, poetic, and a bit needless, since it’s already obvious that a pregnant woman is pregnant if you can call her a pregnant woman. That’d better make sense.
Let’s hope double-posting is allowed. And unintentional bumping.
I’ve heard this one way too often: “You want?”
And of course, the classic “Does your mommy let?”
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