The Short [SGA] Guide to Hebrew Slang

[roga]

I've been meaning to write a short Hebrew slang dictionary for a while now, and I thought, hey, instead of giving examples like "Michelle thought Joey had an achla car", it would be more interesting to give examples like "Rodney thought John had an achla ass". Except without the slash

Comments

[batdina]

Can I just say that I think it's hysterically funny that Hebrew slang *still* comes from Arabic, even after all these years?

Thanks for this.

[roga]

You know, I looked at the slang category in the Hebrew Wikipedia, just to get some inspiration for different words, and apparently we borrow slang words from over a dozen languages, not just Arabic and Yiddish and Ladino and English. And then there's the military slang, which is all abbreviations and near impossible to translate. But yeah, I don't think the Arabic words will ever go away - nor do they need to, honestly :-)

[miss_porcupine]

I was all set to bookmark this for future use with certain characters and... now I'm never going to get the examples out of my head. So thank you for that. I'll have the words memorized and I won't be able to use them. ;)

[roga]

Eep! Sorry :-) I could have been more considerate with the gen-oriented population of this journal, who are, in most cases, myself. But, you know, the words are still just the words! And I haven't even made it to the curses, which I don't think I can ever write into examples because that would make for some very twisted NC-17. So, like, those. You'll have those gen, I promise :-)

[miss_porcupine]

Oh, it totally wasn't the slash (I read slash! I've written slash!), it was the context. Less scarring and more funny... except for when it was scarring and funny.

[roga]

Ah, okay :-) (Or sababa, one might say...) I'm just used to a pretty gen Lorne in your fics, is all.

[sholio]

I'm dying here! This is awesome! Educational and awesome. The anime eyes, oh my god.

[roga]

Yay! I really should reform the education system here, shouldn't I? Add some spice.

[dafnagreer]

mah pitom? davka?

Or are those not slang-y enough?

[roga]

You know, this got so long just for these, what, 8 words? I figured I'd just leave it at that for now, and have it kind of... themes. So, Arabic derived words today. Tomorrow: THE WORLD.

[deelaundry]

I loves me some McShep, but I am all over the Lorne/Keller/Ronon. Hot damn!

YALLA!

[roga]

\o/! They are a nicec OT3, aren't they? :-)