As for the Montreal thing: unrealistic and ungrounded as it is at the moment, it was just what I needed to hear.
I can beat up demons until the cows come home, and then I can beat up the cows.
Buffy ,'Dirty Girls'
Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
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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".
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.
Polter-Cow - Apr 11, 2011 12:14:52 pm PDT #19566 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Aw, that's an adorable one, indeed. I would also be tempted to let her keep saying it.
There was a pretty funny gag on last week's Outsourced where Todd tried to make "boneathon" sound like the most romantic thing ever and Rajiv proceeded to use the word in that way for the rest of the episode.