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| (...) (twitch) Bostonian...accent.......speak... Pittsburghese... Hey, yins guys goin' danna sasside an'at? J (25 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) 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 (25 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) LOL! Boy, can I relate to that... :-) (die! die! I can't stand it any more!) <grin> -Shiri (25 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) then "nonono - not like that... you don't understand" Jenn's learning hebrew though. :) (25 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) 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> (25 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) 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 (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) 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! (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| (...) ROFL! That's hilarious! -Shiri (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| 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 (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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