SayidSomal Posted November 26, 2008 Yesterday, this teaching assistant came to me complaing about poor little farah; straight from somalia. It was his firt week in the school. Apparently she was assessing his literacy skills with one of those Peter & Jane reading books. the book read: Peter was looking for Jane. when it came to reading these lines, little farah, nervously laughed and looked at the teacher and then back at text. seeing that he was hesitating, the teacher commands: "read on" Little Farah: pointing to the text whilst laughing, exclaims "this fcuk!" Teacher gobsmacked: "that is rude word, don't say that". shen then terminates the assessment and stormes into my room, complaining "these children only learn swear words" and little farah "called this book the F word." when i realised what transpired and i explained to little farah - the differences between phonetics based Af Soomaali and morphology of the English language - his reply was: ee xey a'da ugu bedeli waayeen o - si loogu akhriyo "woz" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Aaliyyah Posted November 26, 2008 this is lame. I think you made it up... :rolleyes: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SayidSomal Posted November 26, 2008 ^^^ :rolleyes: it reminded of another one while back - i was there for this one - when one of the Albanian boys asked a female teacher - "miss - give me a kiss" - the teacher replied - "no! - i will give you a kick" - that didn't register - so he repeated again "miss - please give me the kiss" and then followed it up - "my bag is in there" then i realised he was asking for KEYS Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Che -Guevara Posted November 26, 2008 ^That's from T.V show Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Aaliyyah Posted November 26, 2008 loool@ give me kiss...poor fella. lol che its from a tv show? I knew this guy luvs to make up stuff Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SayidSomal Posted November 26, 2008 i have not made up either of them - however belief what you want. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ducaysane Posted November 26, 2008 Ala Aaliyah yarey muran badanaa. sidee loo qabi doonaa. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SayidSomal Posted November 26, 2008 ^^ ma aragtay! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Che -Guevara Posted November 26, 2008 Aaliyah..It sounds like something the Spanish waiter in fawlty towers would say. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SayidSomal Posted November 26, 2008 ^^^sounding like and it being - are as far different as kiss and keys. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Aaliyyah Posted November 26, 2008 ducaysane wa la dalacay..aniga wax qabaya Sayid lol okey I believe you now. Anyhow, i cant figure out for the life of me how kiss and keys can sound the same lol... salaam Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Che -Guevara Posted November 26, 2008 Sayid-Perception mate, just enough to make others doubtful of your story. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SayidSomal Posted November 26, 2008 ^^^that is all it takes :mad: - cheaps shot nevertheless. Originally posted by AAliyah416: ducaysane wa la dalacay..aniga wax qabaya this reminded me of a somali 'blonde story' moment - re father saying to his daughter - "don't ever let a man get on top of you" well, the moment her father adviced against came and girl remembered her fathers advice - so she told the xariif - where to go - cos her father told her - no man should ever get on top of her - the xariif replied - "you get on top then" the girl proudly told her father - how she adhered to his advice and got on the top of the xariif Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Aaliyyah Posted November 26, 2008 lool sayid now that's taking my statement out of context. salaam Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Che -Guevara Posted November 26, 2008 Waraa...Gibirta wadaadad waayo ka xishooda. Sayid...I heard variations of the same 'accent' stories. Afterwhile, they all sound the same, just the ethnicity of the individuals involved changed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites