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Re: Trollspeak

From:vardi <vardi@...>
Date:Friday, February 26, 1999, 7:00
dunn patrick w wrote:
> > On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Steg Belsky wrote: > > > 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
> > --Patrick