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What did you just say???
So I've thought about how I can win the hearts of my fellow Little Libyan villagers (*hint* I should win Saffulia's new contest *hint*) and came up with the following:
You are in the store shopping with your family. Amid the English only conversations of the surrounding people, your family speaks English mixed with Arabic mixed with words only your family understands :). And then you say something that causes the lady reaching for something in the aisle next to you to look up (fill in the blanks with whatever you generally shop for):
Sis: So which kind of _____ do you want?
You: The one m3 ____ wa ____.
Sis: Hatha or that one?
You: No the one GOODAMMIK...
And that is when the white girl looks at you with that Ohmigosh-my-kids-are-with-me-and-he aring-you-talk-that-trash stare because to her you just said:
"Goddammit!"
Come on, you know it happens to you, too! SO what phrases do you say that afford you second glances and mean utterances?
You are in the store shopping with your family. Amid the English only conversations of the surrounding people, your family speaks English mixed with Arabic mixed with words only your family understands :). And then you say something that causes the lady reaching for something in the aisle next to you to look up (fill in the blanks with whatever you generally shop for):
Sis: So which kind of _____ do you want?
You: The one m3 ____ wa ____.
Sis: Hatha or that one?
You: No the one GOODAMMIK...
And that is when the white girl looks at you with that Ohmigosh-my-kids-are-with-me-and-he aring-you-talk-that-trash stare because to her you just said:
"Goddammit!"
Come on, you know it happens to you, too! SO what phrases do you say that afford you second glances and mean utterances?
Comments on this journal
Sometimes I wish I spoke Chinese...cuz those people are soooo obvious when they talk about you, they're looking straight at you and talking in their language....sometimes I just nod, just to let them think I'm understanding! haha
You: Ummi can we go _______-
Ummi: La....
You: Leish laa?
Ummi: Hikki!
Everyone looks in the room and wonders what your mom is talking about "hikki!".