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keep calm and "ru2u shway" mean the same thing..something lebanese people might say and find funny I guess

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this meme would not have been funny if the word "dafen" meaning "funeral" and the words "yen3ad 3lek" meaning "happy holidays" had been written in english. Its funny becayse it depicts how the lebanese share a collective way of saying conventional phrases at certain events. and messing up all the time.

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"peugeot" is pronounced like the arabic word "they come", and so turning it the other way is "they go"

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The French Liberte in Lebanon. long dead

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This is a funny meme with a pun on the word "saussure"

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Mary had a little "lamb"

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its not "you" its "me"

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this is an advertisement by burger king that has exploited language in a pun that debases women and reinforces discrimination by setting them as mere sexual objects

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taken from facebook

"BuKarsh" if split into "Bu" and "Karsh" in Arabic means "father of tummy"...or something like that

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taken from facebook

The words were translated literally from Arabic to English, completely altering their meaning,

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Taken from instagram It is a joke about how people have become replaced by their phones, but what is interesting is the casual conversation between waiter and customer in lebanese dialect where they merge arabic, english and french, such as the french word "bonsoir" followed by an arabic sentence, ending with the english word "please." Some words such as "chargeur" are commonly used in lebanon, to the extent that it sounds weird and unsophisticated to use the arabic word instead. #engl229 #waiter #customer #joke #phones #conversation #dialect #lebanese

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This is the sign of a cafe in Saida called " ع رووف " 

The name is written in arabic letters: "ع" is the preposition "on" and "رووف" is the transliteration of "roof"

The name of the cafe signifies modern Lebanese dialect where people use Arabic prepositions and conjunctions to form sentences and use English words to seem more modern or sophisticated. 

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Taken from instagram "Elephant" in arabic is pronounced "feel" = i feel good #engl229 #ifeelgood #elephant #memes

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Taken from the page "Humans of New York" The caption is a quote from the child: "we builded a contraption once" Its funny how children, or anyone learning English for the first time, would directly assume that the grammatical rules they learn apply to everything the same way, and why shouldnt they past tense of build be builded instead of built? When presenting on the KJ bible, we mentioned that such changes in language occured with the emergence of the KJV..but still..makes sense to say builded #engl229 #child #builded #verb #tense

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Taken from 9gag

This picture depicts a female and a male dictionary, showing how female language differs from male language, such that female language is more complicated and implicit (what women say contradicts what they intend) whereas male language is always straightforward and simple (they say what they literally mean), thus reinforcing gender difference and opposition through language use which further implies difference in modes of thinking.

#engl 229 #gender #language #female #male #dictionary #diction 

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Taken from instagram "Yala" is a very popular lebanese word that has no literal translation in english, but it is used so frequently and in so many different contexts and meanings, even while talking english, such as 'yala i have to leave' #engl229 #yala #lebanese

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A picture taken from 9gag This probably isnt that relevant, but its funny how english grammar can be very confusing sometimes, but still make sense. For someone newly learning english, this sentence would probably blow his/her mind. #engl229 #english #grammar #perfect #sense #sentence #structure