Comments on: Video Transcription: “The Bomb”

By: Chris Hitchcock

Chris Hitchcock — Sat, 14 Jan 2017 13:08:39 +0000

hi ppptim, sorry for the slow response

The link is now fixed!

By: ppptim

ppptim — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 08:21:17 +0000

Thank you so much! Unfortunately the transcript is not availbale anymore

By: Caitlyn

Caitlyn — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 08:49:04 +0000

Your انا ما ايه point makes a lot of sense, and I do hear that all the time! I was confused because I thought it sounded like انما as in the very Fusha word. الف سلام instead of سلامة also makes more sense in terms of meaning. I’ll edit the post to reflect this. Thanks very much!

By: dwilmsen

dwilmsen — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 19:02:52 +0000

Oh, and ايام العز means something like ‘the glory days’ or ‘the good old days’ or “the days of his prime’ here either referring to the glory days of Egypt or the days when Salamony was in his prime.

By: dwilmsen

dwilmsen — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 18:57:48 +0000

couple of spelling errors: انما يخلّي

By: dwilmsen

dwilmsen — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 18:39:26 +0000

The verb ‘to let, allow, keep’ خلّى يخّي also has a shadda. I’m pretty sure the guy says, بيخللوا bi-y-xallilu which does mean ‘they are pickling’

Oh and the guy says الف سلام عليك not سلامة so it means 1000 as-salamu 3alēkums

It’s not عندما ايه it’s اناما ايه I told you, it’s used a lot!

It’s برقبتها literally ‘on her neck’ You’re correct, it’s used in comparisons to means something like ‘far superior’

This film really makes me homesick. I lived just up the street from there on Nehro Street, across from Merryland. This is at the north end of it. My father in law had a clinic in the building behind the onlookers.

By: dwilmsen

dwilmsen — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 17:55:53 +0000

انما ط is quite common in Egyptian speech.

By: Caitlyn

Caitlyn — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 10:34:22 +0000

1-I was confused at first by the khali point too, but I asked a native speaker and he gave me the explanation I used here. The difference is that there’s two ‘l’s instead of one in this word; it’s a different root, and therefore, meaning – خلل versus خلى

2-And yes, it’s like, ‘here/there they are!’ I think that’s what I was struggling to express here.

By: Andrew Reid

Andrew Reid — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 10:27:44 +0000

This is just all kinds of awesome, both the clip and your painstaking translation.

Couple of questions/comments
1) khalli – is that used here in the sense of leaving rather than fermenting? eg. khaliha 3la gamb – leave it on the side
2) Aho/ahey/ahom – Can also mean like, “there it is / there they are”, as in the football chant “Ahom ahom ahom, el masryeen ahom”, ie “Here come the Egyptians!!”