Thursday, February 14, 2008

Okay in Hebrew

A couple years ago, my friend Claire (future account person, clairet3@hotmail.com if you want to give some random chick briefly mentioned in a student blog a job in your account department, she's very good at what she intends to do...) went to Israel. To begin, I am not religious and did not go on some mission to the Holy Land to retrace the path of Jesus or reconnect with my fellow Chosen People. I was raised Jewish, did the whole Bat Mitzvah sheh-bang, then went to Catholic high school (go figure). I did get to go for free, (hell yeah bitches...) all because I'm kinda Jewish. You can do it too. They really don't do much in the way of background checks and it's a wicked-cool trip. For a small fee I can teach people to pretend to be Jewish... email me - ashleyecrandall@yahoo.com.
The most important thing that came out of that trip is we figured out how to say "okay" in Hebrew. (Did you know that the word "okay" is the second most used/recognizeable word in the world? I think Coke or CocaCola is number 1.) It's spelled chhhhokay in English... In Hebrew it would go something like chet, o vowel, kaf, yud with this other vowel that when combined make an "ay" sound. Make sure the sound of the chhhh comes from the back of your mouth and is obnoxiously overdone. People that speak German and Scandanavian do very well with this sound. Spanish speakers come very close to the right sound as long as their English isn't too good and they still mispronounce words that start with an "h" like hotdog... try chhhotdog.
Anyway, that will be all.

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