I see Lesson 38 has raised a lot of comments. Many of our daily actions and behaviors are made automatically without premeditation or calculation. Placed in a different cultural context, they may seem strange. What is true for gestures is also true for the expressions when they say "nchalla" in Lebanon ("in a c. 2a'll has h") mean "hopefully" or "j hope (for you) that it will happen. " We do not think nécessairemenent by saying that the original meaning word for word means "God willing" and is from a religious heritage (nothing happens without the will of the Gods).
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goes well the ritual that accompanies the "hits" in Lebanon. That, in my opinion, the balance of traditional social practices. Take the case of the traveler. There is still barely a century, on a trip that was very dangerous, unsafe roads, bandits, shipwrecks, disease, war ... When someone left his village, was the event. People almost made him say goodbye as if it was the last time they saw him.
- "Bon Voyage" is replaced often "tr or 7 (or) w ter JA3 Bês sal e me"
word for word = T'ailles and that you back safe and sound
Myself, the first time I went to France to continue my studies for a whole week, it was the parade of cousins, neighbors , friends ... who came to say goodbye. On my return was the parade for a week but the same people who came to greet me and congratulate me on my safe return. On my return, some do not come the first day because, as the proverb
- Essal e m i le'mn 7, lamma yêstri7 = " greeting correct (or good), once it rests "we could transpose: it will cause both rested)
- It sits = 3am YERTE e 7 (yêstri7 is correct but too literary)
- salem greeting =
- greetings = e salam you
you noticed the resemblance to "salamaleks" = 3alayk salam (peace be upon you)
ie: I do not come as a warrior (another expression balance ...) - Peace sal = es e m
Obviously, after a day on a donkey, you want to sleep, drink, eat and not get people ... But it remained despite the quality of modern transport.
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The sense of hospitality is deeply rooted in the Middle East. The trip was so dangerous that the reception of a traveler should be equal. In time, the Bedouin, for example, a traveler should be allowed for 7 days (housed fed). Whoever he is. It should even be honored to accept the invitation if it is "persistent". The first three days he was rude to ask the guest to what tribe he was from (It can be an enemy tribe). After seven days, the traveler must still go: it would be rude of him to stay. Anyway, you "would put at the door" after having filled his bag of food, water, clothes ... They hoped of course that the same treatment will be made a member of their tribe would be lost and hosted by another tribe. Under conditions of extreme lives, have established in the species (human) codes of survival.
What is left today? When someone visits us, even if he lives next door, he was offered a drink (orange juice, ...), to eat (fruit, pastries, chocolates ...), cigarettes (less and less as the anti-smoking makes its way), not forgetting of course ... coffee.
Coffee is now the minimum that should be served to a visitor. As long as coffee is not served, it remains home to ... does not offend you. If you forgot, after a while he pretended to get up from the guest who exclaims, while forgetting his cue "sit down, we have not even made coffee yet!
- Shame = ago 3ayb ech Shumi
word for word: O rude misfortune "but it can also mean "why you're in a hurry? we having fun" - is rude = tsk, tsk, tsk ... 3ayb
the address of a child who makes nonsense ...
In Lebanon, in feudal times, the Lord's house was always full. The saying goes, a sign of their importance, is "their home does not always full." But if the house does not always full, it means that the coffee is always on fire! Some large families perpetuate a tradition until today and that is not to throw all the coffee grounds before to rebuild. Suddenly, we heard "in the X family, you drink coffee 100 years of age in 150 years as ...". Strong coffee!
Coffee is what is really at the end. It is associated mentally at the end of the visit (7 days have passed, we have filled your bag, you now you resume your business and you go away ...). Therefore, according to tradition, do not serve very quickly. It was not until a quarter of an hour at least. Unless you voulier ... shorten some visits. Visitors will understand the message.
Hence the proverb Giovanni :
"Coffee served quickly, cut short visits" or
"Coffee served, visit shortened"
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