We have one person listed as a Montrealer on the map. Brenda and I used to live there.
I was under the impression that I was your big comfy blanky.
Oz ,'Him'
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§ ita § - Apr 11, 2011 11:11:32 am PDT #19556 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Shir - Apr 11, 2011 11:12:26 am PDT #19557 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
As for the Montreal thing: unrealistic and ungrounded as it is at the moment, it was just what I needed to hear.
Laga - Apr 11, 2011 11:23:07 am PDT #19558 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
A (male) friend of mine was viting Mexico with his family. At a restaurant he went to reach across the table and spilled a bottle of wine all over the table, the waiter, and the floor. He stammered, "estoy muy, muy, embarazado"
I'm very, very, pregnant
Typo Boy - Apr 11, 2011 11:30:10 am PDT #19559 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I think Shir may be thinking (whether she knows it or not) of the Yiddish term "Hamish" pronounced more like "Home-ish-ah". And I don't think there is an English equivalent. "Cozy" captures some of it, but cozy is not really a word for a person. A "Hamish" person makes a place cozy and makes the people around her feel cozy. And my use of the word "her" is because when Yiddish was a living language it would have been really unusual to describe a man as "Hamish", though I hope gender roles are less rigid today.
Toddson - Apr 11, 2011 11:32:47 am PDT #19560 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
In college, another girl's boyfriend was Italian and his way with American idioms was, well, idiosyncratic. He once asked a friend what to do if he got his girlfriend "knocked out."
Ginger - Apr 11, 2011 11:42:30 am PDT #19561 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
He once asked a friend what to do if he got his girlfriend "knocked out."
CPR
Shir - Apr 11, 2011 11:50:16 am PDT #19562 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Nice thought, Typo - but I think I only heard this word once or twice before. My Yiddish goes as far as "Ich weiß nicht" (which is actually German, I know), so I think your Yiddish is better than mine.
In college, another girl's boyfriend was Italian and his way with American idioms was, well, idiosyncratic. He once asked a friend what to do if he got his girlfriend "knocked out."
You have no idea how confusing phrasal verbs are to non-English speakers. No. Idea.
Toddson - Apr 11, 2011 11:55:42 am PDT #19563 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
English is highly idiomatic and, I imagine, a pain to learn. But you're doing great! (And I believe that Yiddish is based on German ... but I may be wrong.)
Typo Boy - Apr 11, 2011 12:04:27 pm PDT #19564 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Shir I need to explain the "whether you know it or not". Short version, there is a lot of back-door Yiddish in Israeli English. So you may have heard more Yiddish than you think.
Trudy Booth - Apr 11, 2011 12:10:48 pm PDT #19565 of 30000
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 had an Italian friend who would say "I'm broken" when she was out of money. I almost didn't tell her because it was so darn cute.