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To: definitelynotaliberal

Actually, any strong emotion that I have comes out of my mouth in Arabic, automatically. Also, my little interjections. Ya Allah! Mashallah! Wallah! etc. I can’t imagine saying that in any other language.

My dialect one of the softer ones & best for expressing love. My boyfriend’s dialect is one of the harsher ones, so I find myself cursing in khaleeji now.


21 posted on 06/26/2008 3:32:39 PM PDT by forkinsocket
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To: forkinsocket

I used anger because that’s what you said initially. But Ya Allah is Oh God - not a particularly strong emotion. Likewise mashallah. Wallah is a question to test veracity. ‘Really?’ You seem shami. So you would be just as likely to say, “La - bijhad? Tahki bijhad?” I’m guessing you’re shami because you said your dialect is softer.


28 posted on 06/26/2008 3:44:48 PM PDT by definitelynotaliberal
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To: forkinsocket

My grandkids, living in different countries, are being brought up speaking different languages. They all know 2 or more languages (what is spoken at home, and what is spoken outside, and what they learn in school), but my grandson in Israel refuses to speak anything but Hebrew!

I like Yiddish, there are some things you can express in Yiddish better than in any other language. Even though it is a derivative of German, it is way more fun than German!


44 posted on 06/26/2008 6:44:34 PM PDT by Alouette (Vicious Babushka)
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