You mean I wasn't making it up when I saw an empty RC Cola can on the street when I was on vacation in Jerusalem last week? I didn't think they even make that here in the States anymore.
RC Cola is good because now there is no more Tempo Cola and there is also a good mid-range Cola for shul kiddushes that it somewhere between Super Drink Cola and the the real thing baby.
Oh, and American curse words that have been absorbed into Israeli Hebrew have nothing to do with trying to act American. They usually mean something else than they do in America and is really just the way the development of slang works in any language.
BB - that's BS.
>>>In this week's parsha,
In America we still have a week to wait before P' Beha'alosecha ; )
bratz. barbie. superheroes.
way too much merchandising. hard to find 'plain' schoolbags, notebooks, etc. even sneakers sometimes.
that scene is brilliant. had heard about it, but hadn't seen it.
putting this post together with your last one though, i would want more decent ice cream around. not just expensive american brands, but just edy's or bryers or something.
chanie - i'd be happy with generic brand half-gallons.
they used to have them at one specific store in talpiot - i know someone in our old mutual hometown who used to keep a cooler in her trunk to pick some up every time she was in j-m.
i keep meaning to check if they still have them now that the store has changed ownership/names a bunch of times.
Ben and Jerry-those PALESTINIAN LOVERS?
yOU CAN AT LEAST GET hAAG EN dAS.
And basketball-What is different here?
read a bit of Dr. Netzer's "Ivrit B'Jeans" and then get back to me. you'll see that I'm correct.........
I should clarify that w/o just throwing out a book - I think that we - as newer immigrants - hear some of these american words used as Hebrew slang and contextualize them as they might have been used when they were first introduced into Hebrew - i.e. at that point in time they were probably being used by Israelis perhaps wanting to sound cool and/or american. but now they are no longer used in that context.
"fukim" in Hebrew means exactly what it means when used - mess ups - and will be used that way by Israelis - even religious ones - who have never seen an American movie in their life and have never been inside the departures terminal of Ben Gurion airport.
Yeah. I once heard an Israeli call another Israeli "DooDoo", adn the other guy didn't bat an eyelash.
Seriously, you may be right about some, or even all such terms (I still think you're wrong about BS). That doesn't mean I can't wish it away.
I heard a story from an extremely veteran oleh visit his son's gemara class, and heard the rebbe ask the students about the "bool-sheet" (say it out loud if you don't get it) the gemara was talking about. Same meaning, but given the context and speaker, not at all the same level of crassness.
i disagree about the 'cursing'
they may not know what they are saying, or it may mean something different - but wouldn't you want to know if something you were saying in hebrew had a different meaning to 'native' speakers? i mean, imagine this teacher teaching a group of visiting americans and using that word. wouldn't he want to know?
(doodoo or doodee is a shortened form of 'david' and is used a lot too - even by my cousin who grew up in the US)
chanie - I know that "dudu" is short for david. that was a joke.
I agree that israelis, especially teachers, really ought to know better, but we're tilting at windmills.
i remember about 15 years ago seeing a small chicken place on a street in tel aviv called עוף *&@.
The humor is in the word עוף, which, of course, means "chicken" but is transliterated as "off". You can figure out what the first word was.
That's what I call "fowl language".
That may be stolen from the NYC chicked store "Pluck University" (or, "Pluck U.").
You can't make this stuff up.
There's a nut roasting place in Hod Hasharon called פצצה גרעינית
very much in keeping with the times
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