Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Hebronics

Read somewhere:
"The NYC School Board has officially declared Jewish-English a
second language.  Backers of the move say the district is the
first in the nation to recognize Hebronics as the language of
many American Jews.  Look for other cities to follow suit,
notably Miami Beach, Los Angeles, and Scarsdale.
In Hebronics: Questions are always answered with questions:
Question: "How do you feel?"
Hebronics response: "How should I feel?"
The subject is often placed at the end of a sentence after a
pronoun has been used at the beginning:
"She dances beautifully, that girl."
The sarcastic repetition of words by adding "sh" to the front is
used for emphasis: Mountains becomes "shmountains"; turtle
becomes shmurtle."
These common phrases were translated from "Standard English" to
Hebronics:
English: "He walks slowly"
Hebronics: "Like a fly in the Vaseline he walks."
English: "Sorry, I don't know the time"
Hebronics: "What do I look like, a clock?"
English: "I hope things turn out okay"
Hebronics: "You should BE so lucky!"
English: "I see you're wearing one of the ties I gave you."
Hebronics: "What's the matter, the other tie you didn't like?
English: "Anything can happen."
Hebronics: "Things are never so bad that they can't get worse"
English: "May I take your plate sir?"
Hebronics: "You've hardly touched your food. What's the matter,
something's wrong with it?"
English: "It's been so long since you've called."
Hebronics: "You didn't wonder if I'm dead yet?"
English: "Let's not go skiing"
Hebronics: "Mountains, shmountains! Do I look like a sled to
you?
-- 
"The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as
the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets,
and to steal bread."
                -- Anatole France

 notably Miami Beach, Los Angeles, and Scarsdale.
Great language, a bit on the dark side, sarcastic, but still I love it.

 
[ snip various examples]
That's not Jewish! It's Yiddish, or, better, the effect it has on English.
There is a book by Leo Rosten, "The joy of Yiddish" that has a ton of this
examples and a list of all the Yiddish words that are now (or should be) part
of English.  Words like "chutzpa" "schmuck" and so on. It's a really funny
book as often he explain the meaning of a word with a joke or a funny
story....
G

G, 12:16, lunedì 19 luglio 2010:
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In fact I received it from a humorous mailing list.
The pun is Ebonics->Hebronics.
Probably somebody could do the same work for Italonics or
Puertoriconics.
-- 
"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs
treat us as equals."
                -- Winston Churchill 

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Yeah, I got that. But if you want to make fun of something stupid (and
Ebonics IS stupid) at least get your facts straight :-)
Besides If they talk about "Jewish-English" that should be Jewglish or
something (in the book above it's called Yinglish).
I was just pointing out the botched joke, they tried to make fun of a
fictitious language fad like Ebonics using a real phenomenon changing it's
name and botching it. That's all.
G 

ADPUF ha scritto:
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Spanglish.
Nuyorican.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nuyorican
Joe from Massachusetts
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Chinglish is spoken in Chinatown here.
-- 
Joey from NY

 
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nuyorican
Stressed on -ri-?
I thought it was stressed on -yo-.
-- 
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world
owes you nothing. It was here first.
    -- Mark Twain

 Chinglish is spoken in Chinatown here.
What's their most common deviation from standard English?
F.ex. all Slavic persons in Italy with little knowledge of
Italian never use determined article.
Tutte persone di origine slava che non parlano bene italiano non
usano mai articoli determinativi.
-- 
Advertisement for donkey rides in Thailand:
"Would you like to ride on your own ass?"