Re: Trollspeak

dunn patrick w wrote:
>
> On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Steg Belsky wrote:
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> > There's also the contraction _ma ta..._ for _ma ata..._, "what are
> > you...", which i say a lot myself.
> >
> >
> > -Stephen (Steg)
>
> Is there also a _ma ni_ for "ma ani"?
>
> Hrmm.  I guess that phrase just wouldn't come up all that often, now that
> I think of it.  Sorry, my Hebrew's even worse than my Anglo-Saxon, and
> that sucks eggses.

Au contraire, Patrick. "ma ni" is very common. As in the expression:

ma ni fryer shelkha? (literally: what I sucker of-you) - i.e.
"who do you think I am, a sucker?"

        Shaul








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> --Patrick