wolfe but sad @wolfgang@awoo.space

i haven't seen a "little mis(s|ter) (something)" meme in days and everyone seems to think they're "cringe" (ugh) or whatever now, so it makes perfect sense that today i saw hebrew language ads with the least funny iterations of that meme yet

i wonder if monolingual* israelis can even imagine overwhelmedness existing as a concept

hebrew has no word for "overwhelm"

re: yes/yellow pair -- israeli "yellow" is, in fact, nearly identical to asl "yellow" (= israeli "yes") but adds a sideways motion to distinguish

most likely cognates through LSF 🇫🇷 and DGS 🇩🇪

ASL: "where"
Israeli: "who"

basically the sign version of the classic english-speaker-learning-german mistake of asking "wer ist die toilette?"

Israeli: "yes"
ASL: "yellow"

ASL: "able to"
Israeli: "owner"

ASL: "funny"
Israeli: "try"

ASL: "homie"
Israeli: "work"

i grew up around people from a lot of different language backgrounds who all (including me!) had to use non native languages a lot in our day to day life; so i've gotten quite good at sussing out peoples native language from their accent and even their grammar in their NON native languages

anyway what i'm saying is i think m'aiq the liar is native in a language that doesn't have any personal pronouns, except maybe "their/her/his own"

adhd be like: i got distracted from getting distracted from getting distracted

*talking about morphology of numbers in israeli sign language*

me: "am i the only one who ever asked you this question?"

sign teacher: "yes"

ASL: "name"
Israeli: "sick"

ASL: "wolf"
Israeli: "fox"

ASL: "friend"
Israeli: "hanging" or sometimes "depends"

Dutch Sign: "friend"
Israeli: "lesbian" (old sign, based on sexual connotation 😐🙃)

ASL: "yes"
Israeli: "disrespectful"

let's kick this off with an absolute banger:

Israeli: "problem"
ASL: "bitch"

gonna make a thread of sign language false friends i encounter because OH MY GOD THERES JUST SO MANY and some of them are real spicy