Ohio, but my relatives all talk like fireflyr72. You forgot.... Did you warsh that jug or jist wrench it? Youns from DEtroit? Onest youns is married youns better not get parted.
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Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. - Frederick Buechner
If society prospers at the expense of the intangibles, how can it be called progress?
1. The Park is in Sidney 2. Go to the stop sign and turn left. 3. The Park is in Sidney 4. Go to the stop sign and turn left. 5. The Park is in Sidney 6. Go to the stop sign and turn left. 7. The Park is in Sidney 8. Go to the stop sign and turn left. 9. The Park is in Sidney 10. Go to the stop sign and turn left.
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May your days be filled with Merriment and May you walk in Balance with Creator.
I am from Jeffersonville, IN - which is directly across the Ohio River from Louisville, KY.
The biggest thing one needs to learn here is no matter what flavor of soft drink you are referring to, it is still a Coke. the other thing is to pronounce Louisville as "loo-a-vul". Pronouncing it another way will get you a lecture.
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May all your up's and down's be under the sheets!
Religion is for those who are afraid of going to Hell. Spirituality is for those who have already been there. - Anonymous
I'm from Germany; live in a small village which is situated almost in the middle between Frankfurt and Cologne.
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"Now here's my secret", said the fox, "it is very simple. It is only with ones heart that one can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye."
("The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
"The soul would have no rainbow, if the eye had no tears." (Native American Proverb)
Nowadays I'm from a little town called Pesé, about twenty kilometers west of Chitré on the Azuero penninsula in the Republic of Panama.
Sayings and other things around here, there are about a million, but they are all in Spanish of course.
One of the most confusing things for gringos down here is to learn that when someone here says, "Panamá" , they mean the city of Panamá. Sorta like saying New York. So, if I need to go into the city I say, | Tengo irme a Panamá. |
Other sayings, ¿Y mio? (used by bums in a cantina when someone buys a beer ("and mine?").
¡Ay ya la maquina! pronounced Ai ja la makeena (y has a sound like g as in gee), an expression of surprise like Holy Cow! in english
¡Chuleta! (literaly means pork chop, but is used as an expression of surprise when one wants to refrain from using the dirty version)
Soda (any soft drink)
Huele como un gringo viejo. (It smells like an old gringo. My boss uses that one.)
Oh, not really sayings but worth noting, people are addressed often by their racial characteristics or skin color, here it is not usually perceived as being insulting or rude unless it is said in a tone to indicate that.
Gringo any white person from anywhere. Chino any person with remotely asian features example commonly heard in the small stores, - Oye china, dame una galleta. - (Hey chinese lady, give me a cookie.) Chombo a black person, usually means carribean type, also the word used for the habañero type peppers. Cholo mixed indian (indigenous type, see below) Hindu East Indian as in Resterante Hindu (if you want to eat curry).
If I think of more I'll let y'all know.
Hasta luego, Leo
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Consistency. It's only a virtue if you're not a screwup.
Ita erat quando hic adveni.
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunatley it kills all its pupils. - Hector Berlioz
"No matter where you go, there you are." - R. Young
¿Cómo estas? Bienvenido al grupo. Espero que te gusta comunicarse y comparte con nosotros. Disculpe por la gramática mal, pero soy mejorando. Hablo mejor que escribo. Jaja
Ciao,
Leo, aquí en Azuero, en un Domingo tranquilo, pero tengo pasar un tiempo haciendo unos informes para mi trabajo, y quiero terminar e ir a la casa antes comienzan el juegos de fútbol americano hoy en la tarde.
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