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dancingqueen
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Thu, Feb 27 2020, 8:45 pm
lkwdgirl wrote: | Do non frum people ask someone “where are you holding” when someone is either traveling or you want to know where they are? I think not. I’ve heard many times and don’t get it “I have bar mitzva this .....” what happened the a or the? |
No, properly they would say “where are you?”. Other groups have their own slang like “where you at?”
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aliavi
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Thu, Feb 27 2020, 8:53 pm
Take a haircut
Need to make
I’m cholov Yisroel (not that I eat only cholov Yisroel).
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paperflowers
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Thu, Feb 27 2020, 9:59 pm
sushilover wrote: |
Hold of, hold with. I know it's a perfectly valid word, but I've only heard it used by frum people.
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I was going to say this one. I didn’t realize it wasn’t a standard way of saying “is of the opinion” until a professor corrected it on a paper.
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doodlesmom
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Thu, Feb 27 2020, 10:07 pm
Workmate instead of coworker. I guess derived from classmate...
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mommy9
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Thu, Feb 27 2020, 10:20 pm
What about "learnt"? Does anyone say that besides frum people?
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HindaF
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Thu, Feb 27 2020, 10:31 pm
I have some goodies:
It's not "shayich" ( when a date doesnt work out)
It's sick!( used by teens to describe something amazing and fun.)
I "takeh" heard of that.( As in truly truly!!)
Don't "drei me a kup"( Don't ask me a million times if you can have cookies for breakfast! I said no!)
That lady is such a "macher"( heads the Tehilim group, makes shidduchim, and stays on top of the latest community news.)
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Debbie
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Thu, Feb 27 2020, 11:47 pm
[quote="dancingqueen"
Also, calling kids delicious and yummy.[/quote]
This is exactly what I was going to say!
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rzab
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Thu, Feb 27 2020, 11:49 pm
b.chadash wrote: | Juxtaposition /juxtaposed
Not really slang, but its Artscrollian language, and I don't think you will ever see it outside of the frum world. |
I think you would find it more in academic literature in the secular world
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chanatron1000
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Thu, Feb 27 2020, 11:49 pm
TIL frum people in the US and Canada speak a little bit more like the English.
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Debbie
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Fri, Feb 28 2020, 12:09 am
"I gave my baby an injection," after taking the baby to the clinic for vaccinations.
Asking a child if he/she would like a gutte zach,and then giving said child something full of artificial colours and flavours and basically rubbish; what exactly is good about that?
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Odelyah
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Fri, Feb 28 2020, 12:46 am
mommy9 wrote: | What about "learnt"? Does anyone say that besides frum people? |
no that's a good one. comes from yiddish.
To be honest, even saying learning Torah as opposed to studying Torah is really from the yiddish. I only gradually became aware of this from learning with secular college students and the realization was almost shocking. Because they wouldn't say they are learning Torah with me; we are studying Torah. And it dawned on me that the common usage is not actually natural in English..
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Hashem_Yaazor
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Fri, Feb 28 2020, 1:41 am
Actually, learnt is proper in non-American English.
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Moonlight
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Fri, Feb 28 2020, 2:06 am
Some of these are great! Some are just yiddish
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Raisin
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Fri, Feb 28 2020, 2:19 am
I used to think tumult was a yiddish word.
When I was young in London we used to call some people "yoishies" because they used the word Yoy! a lot.
Neb, nebby.
Intimacy referring to s-x.
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DrMom
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Fri, Feb 28 2020, 2:35 am
mommy9 wrote: | What about "learnt"? Does anyone say that besides frum people? |
Yes.
"Learned" is common in the US and Canada; "Learnt" is more common in the UK.
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Chana Miriam S
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Fri, Feb 28 2020, 3:59 am
SixOfWands wrote: | I think that's more an under-35-ism. And it makes me think of cannibals. |
I’m 52 and wasn’t frum until 37. I always used these and hear them everywhere.
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singleagain
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Fri, Feb 28 2020, 4:13 am
HindaF wrote: | I have some goodies:
It's not "shayich" ( when a date doesnt work out)
It's sick!( used by teens to describe something amazing and fun.)
I "takeh" heard of that.( As in truly truly!!)
Don't "drei me a kup"( Don't ask me a million times if you can have cookies for breakfast! I said no!)
That lady is such a "macher"( heads the Tehilim group, makes shidduchim, and stays on top of the latest community news.) |
I always thought sick was just regular teenage slang ... And not specific to any one group.
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Debbie
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Fri, Feb 28 2020, 4:24 am
I hear this quite often when I'm in local grocery shops; parent asks child "Would you like a packet?"
Not would you like a packet/bag of crisps/chips,or Bamba etc...just a packet!
I'm a BT for over thirty years,and coming to live in a Frum area and learning a new style of English took some getting used to!
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Ema of 5
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Fri, Feb 28 2020, 4:36 am
Moonlight wrote: | Some of these are great! Some are just yiddish |
I was going to say this also. Challishing, plotzing, shayich....
Never heard “tumble sauce” until I came to NY. Another one is “take me over” instead of take iver for me. Even my husband says it!!
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Ema of 5
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Fri, Feb 28 2020, 4:37 am
Debbie wrote: | I hear this quite often when I'm in local grocery shops; parent asks child "Would you like a packet?"
Not would you like a packet/bag of crisps/chips,or Bamba etc...just a packet!
I'm a BT for over thirty years,and coming to live in a Frum area and learning a new style of English took some getting used to! |
Well, if they are right in front of the product, then why would they name the product?
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