Now I am picturing Fay as the Chinese guy from Deadwood because the only colloquial English phrase he knows is "cocksucker" Well, at least, I can entertain myself after all.
Wash: So, two days in a hospital? That's awful. Don't you just hate doctors? Simon: Hey. Wash: I mean, present company excluded. Jayne: Let's not be excluding people. That'd be rude.
'Ariel'
Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
erikaj - Apr 09, 2006 9:57:46 am PDT #9697 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Fay - Apr 09, 2006 10:03:51 am PDT #9698 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Ibna Kelba.
(Arabic for son of a bitch. Which is very, very, VERY offensive indeed. Slightly less offensive is Ibna Kelb, which means son of a dog.)
Trudy Booth - Apr 09, 2006 10:17:27 am PDT #9699 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Fay Jay! A cab driver said insh'allah (sp) to me yesterday and I knew what the hell he meant!
(I'd said 'have a good day' or 'hope the weather breaks' or somesuch)
erikaj - Apr 09, 2006 10:29:29 am PDT #9700 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Ojala in Spanish means about the same thing...one of the lasting leftovers of the Moorish influence in Spain.
Fay - Apr 09, 2006 10:30:44 am PDT #9701 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Cool!
Salaam alecum (Peace be upon you) is a most excellent multipurpose Hello/Goodbye phrase to employ in such circumstances. And the Arabic word (well, at least in Egyptian Arabic) for yes is "Iowa".
Topic!Cindy - Apr 09, 2006 10:41:45 am PDT #9702 of 10001
What is even happening?
I get a kick out of seeing young Muslims online, discussing the Prophet and putting "PBUH" in parentheses, after. It took me a while to realize that was essentially religious l33t for "peace be upon him."
Trudy Booth - Apr 09, 2006 10:44:50 am PDT #9703 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I learned 'sweetheart' in arabic a while ago. Now I'm up to, like, four words.
erikaj - Apr 09, 2006 10:47:18 am PDT #9704 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
And because of all the fiction set in the 'hoods of the world I read, I know that the thing to say back is "Aliechem salaam"
Theodosia - Apr 09, 2006 10:53:44 am PDT #9705 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Heh. On a S1 episode of Without A Trace, the imam of a Manhattan mosque gave the FBI agents a definitely ticked-off 'salaam aleichem' when they finished questioning him about a suspect that he thought wouldn't have been a terrorist in about a hundred years. He'd previously had to ask them to step outside when they'd walked in wearing their shoes. I like that this show often gets some cool details right without beating the viewer over the head with exposition about them.
sumi - Apr 09, 2006 11:09:20 am PDT #9706 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Is this week's #1 Single the last one?