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I use yalla right before I say bye to someone on the phone (Yalla, bye) or when trying to get my family members to move their butt when I am trying to get somewhere on time (Yalla, shood ere!).
lan means dog I think in Arabic.
lan is short for "ulan" which is a distorted pronunciation of the turkish word "oglan" (with the little u-shaped symbol above the g, which makes the letter almost silent & gives the "o" a sort of long-o sound.) so its pronounced sort of like: "oghlan"
i agree about the "yo, bra" or the "yo, breh"..... everytime i heard them say that in "Fast & Furious 2" i was ready to kick my foot thru the TV.... but it was my friend's TV...
i also agree about the "have your cake & eat it too".... vay dangalakh, who the hell has cake & doesnt eat it? what does that mean anyway, to HAVE the cake?? so ure just HOLDING the cake???
if i may add a few of my own, what also irritates me is the overuse of "bro" even when pronounced normally. i use it too, & quite regularly at that... but ive seen ppl use it twice in every sentence & that is annoying.
being brought up in a bolsahye family, ive heard my share of ppl putting the "bidi" after the verb ("hima khanout yertank bidi, mi kani paner arnenk bidi, verche doun veratarnank bidi yev djashe badrasdenk bidi" ) thats more funny than it is annoying, my folks & my brother do it all the time & im always making fun of them about it
does this thread HAVE to be strictly for annoying words? what about expressions that make u laugh? one time, a drunk hayastantsi came up to my band after a barahantess &, swaying back & forth, said something like "es ashxar@ frrrrrrouma" i could hardly contain myself!!! FRRRRRRROUMAAAAA!!!!!!! i love u stanzees, but some of the things u say are just hilarious! especially at 3am after countless scotches
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