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  Re: Bizzah weatheh
 
(...) (twitch) Bostonian...accent.......speak... Pittsburghese... Hey, yins guys goin' danna sasside an'at? J (24 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
 
  Re: Bizzah weatheh
 
(...) OMG, if you're talking accents... the funniest thing in the world is to hear Israelis try and speak english with no accent. Sorry if this insults any Israelis... it's not that I dislike the accent, it's just funny and recognizable. I can (...) (24 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Bizzah weatheh
 
(...) careful there - I used to have a bostonian accent, cause I lived there when I was 4-6... but when I moved back to Israel, I lost it, I guess... Now, while I don't have an Israeli accent, I still do have something... though Jenn says that no (...) (24 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Bizzah weatheh
 
(...) accents (...) This is basically what's happening with me. No one realizes I'm an ESLer just from small-talk, unless I come out and say it (or, if they talk with me long enough, I'll get stuck with a word, or maybe start sticking random hebrew (...) (24 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Bizzah weatheh
 
(...) yah, I do numbers sometimes in hebrew (esp if it's numbers I "remember" in hebrew - like israeli phone numbers).... or when I'm tickled (what? nonono, I'm not ticklish!) I say "die" and have to explain that it means "enough".... literally. Dan (24 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Bizzah weatheh
 
(...) LOL! Boy, can I relate to that... :-) (die! die! I can't stand it any more!) <grin> -Shiri (24 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Bizzah weatheh
 
(...) then "nonono - not like that... you don't understand" Jenn's learning hebrew though. :) (24 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Bizzah weatheh
 
(...) And if you're extremely hebrish that day... "low! low! Low lazey heat-kavanti! (And then they'll think that you think they're lazy and low-life ;-) (...) Good for her! -My song <grinny mood today> (24 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Bizzah weatheh
 
(...) I had a friend who went to some sort of religious play in Pittsburgh. In a scene with a character and the three kings, the character actually said... "Yins lookin' for Jesus?" -chris (24 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Bizzah weatheh
 
(...) was (...) I've mentioned this elsewhere, but this is one of very few towns whose name is routinely mispronounced by (some of) the native inhabitants, ie: Picksburgh. Ah, those crazy Appalachian appellations! Dave! (24 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
 
  Re: Bizzah weatheh
 
(...) ROFL! That's hilarious! -Shiri (24 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
 
  Re: Bizzah weatheh
 
At least you don't live in a city where 99% of the residents can't pronounce any of the local place names! Par example: The name of the major river that runs through Portland (aka "poreland" or "fartland, boregon") is properly called the (...) (24 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
 
  Re: Bizzah weatheh
 
(...) Yeah.... I consider myself lucky for living in Israel most of my life... a place where spelling is simple and generally phonetical! Sure, the male/female thing is tough to grasp for an outsider, but easy when you learn it that way. The only (...) (24 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)

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