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thenewgreen  ·  3428 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski, I want to learn arabic. Where do I start?

This is crude, for sure, but my good friend is Arabic and his older brother used to say, "tee-zee-muftu-ha" to us all the time. I have no idea how to spell it, so that is phonetic. But it means, "your ass is open." It's very innapropriate, but we were 14 year old kids and thought it was pretty funny that we could say this in front of our non-Arabic parents and teachers and get away with it.

In algebra class our professor would let us choose the variables used, we always picked "T" and "Z". When the teacher said them, so, you take the sum of "T" and "z" ... We would yell out "MUFTUHA" and we thought we were super funny and clever.

Even more aside: we had a priest (I went to catholic school) that called Jesus "The Master." Whenever he referred to him as The Master we would all yell out "Bater!" -pretty sure we are all going to hell.

How does this help with your question? It doesn't. But thank you for the trip down memory lane.

Good luck learning Arabic!