some boys were mugging me off on the train in a version of this (ok it MIGHT have been some other middle eastern language how the hell would I know but they looked Arabish)
anyway, got me thinking about how hard arabic is to learn and how depressing it is that I will never know the Arab speaking version of me.
She probably mostly complains about hijabs and tabbouleh tbh.
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Bloody forrins.
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well they looked like nice young men really
they were being annoying about the door and I was trying to show them how to open it and one of them said "LONDON?" in a sarcastic pidgin english way and I was like fook you then man. They milled about in the vestibule and I went around the other side and opened the door for them from the outside.
Which was pretty satisfying aggressive magnanimity tbh but it would have been better if I could have added "you're fooking welcome by the way" in Arabic.
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Tess-bah Allah herr!
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Insh'Allah Frau?
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Oh, no, wait - that's "goodnight". Hang on, I meant:
Yixrib beitak wa-beit illi xallafuuk!
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heh xallafuuk
hey is Arabic one of those confusing ones where you speak differently if you're a bird? hate those
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I have no idea. I learned my Arabic from an Egyptian taxi driver.
Taheeni, taxabibi!
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heh
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You should totally go all alpha female on his ass.
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well it is hard to do that when you don't have a language in common
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That's why they invented stiletto heels.
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I am always baffled as to how a language that looks so beautiful written down sounds like a cat hacking up a furball when spoken.
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Al jamal bijanib al nahr.
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The word/words you are looking for are kusumak (sp?).
Very bad indeed.
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(That may not be the actual reason actually, but it seems like a good one)
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