An Insight Into the Jargon of NYC’s Inner Boroughs

[Yooper]

This is quite good; the article does an excellent job of describing the dialect/speech patterns/styles of Brooklyn/Queens (and thus, Trump's verbal style). I suspect most know about it (some sense of it), but for those who did not grow up in the area some of what Fischer writes may come as a bit of a surprise.

To Fully Comprehend Trump, an Insight Into the Jargon of NYC’s Outer Boroughs - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

For four years, polling has documented that the president’s strongest support demographic is America’s Orthodox Jews. The support runs between 70 percent in

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If you “get” New York Jewish humor (think: Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Jackie Mason, Neil Simon), you can have a good healthy laugh. But if you do not get it, then you are left perplexed as to why someone would say something so outrageous and incomprehensible. That latter concern is why, for example, Jerry Seinfeld no longer will do college gigs for “woke” snowflakes in today’s cancel culture. They take the absurdity so literally and then proceed onto social media to destroy the comedian. One errs by interpreting his outrageous punchlines seriously or literally.

I purposely kept "Trump" out of the headline b/c I'm not posting about politics (pro-, anti-, etc.); rather, for the cultural/social background that formed Trump's style.

About a 10-minute read and quite enjoyable. Fischer (the author), of course, being from Brooklyn is spot-on. I grew up "nearby" and can second everything he says about the "dialect" and the "style."

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[vraiblonde]

It always amuses me when Trump speaks like a normal person and the press instructs the bots to get all distraught and pearl clutchy.

 

[WingsOfGold]

NYC... Bloomberg and Screwmer... two Hebrew Lites that we don't need.

 

[GWguy]

Yup. My dad was born in Brooklyn. Yellow is 'yaller', the john is 'terlit'. Anything he can't immediately remember the name of is a 'whudicut'.

 

[Bann]

Great article!

 

[limblips]

This is exactly what I have been trying to say for 4 years. Great find! Thanks.

 

[Bonehead]

It really does explain a lot of Donald's behavior.

 

[Blister]

Just a thought, but if you were asked to describe with only two words any New Yorker you ever met.




Would they ever be "He or She is a "Nice Person".

 

[vraiblonde]

Just a thought, but if you were asked to describe with only two words any New Yorker you ever met.

Would they ever be "He or She is a "Nice Person".

Sure. I find that NYers have a reputation they don't really live up to. When I've been in the city my experience is that if you stop and look at your tourism map, someone will come up to you, ask what you're trying to find, and point you in the right direction. If you're in the subway looking at the map, someone will stop and show you where you need to be. You just gotta make it quick because ain't nobody got time for the dilly dally.

I've encountered a good number of NYers that I would describe as nice people. It's just that in a city of 8 million people there are going to be a large number of jerks, too.

 

[phreddyp]

Sure. I find that NYers have a reputation they don't really live up to. When I've been in the city my experience is that if you stop and look at your tourism map, someone will come up to you, ask what you're trying to find, and point you in the right direction. If you're in the subway looking at the map, someone will stop and show you where you need to be. You just gotta make it quick because ain't nobody got time for the dilly dally.

I've encountered a good number of NYers that I would describe as nice people. It's just that in a city of 8 million people there are going to be a large number of jerks, too.

I agree no matter where you go in the world there are always nice people willing to give a hand or go that extra mile to help. I was amazed before I started traveling at how many people would say oh the locals are snotty there. Then you travel there and find that the everyday people are nothing of the kind. Venice Italy was the only place in my travels where a lot of the locals were not the most hospitable but most still were very nice.

 

[Blister]

Sure. I find that NYers have a reputation they don't really live up to. When I've been in the city my experience is that if you stop and look at your tourism map, someone will come up to you, ask what you're trying to find, and point you in the right direction. If you're in the subway looking at the map, someone will stop and show you where you need to be. You just gotta make it quick because ain't nobody got time for the dilly dally.

I've encountered a good number of NYers that I would describe as nice people. It's just that in a city of 8 million people there are going to be a large number of jerks, too.

Never been to NYC. I have spent a good bit of time in Rochester, Buffalo areas. Sorry I didn't define that I was referring to NYC people. My interactions with that group has been mostly business in the DC/Baltimore area. I never said that they weren't knowledgeable or competent, I just never met one who the first words out of my mouth to describe them was that they were "Nice".

 

[WingsOfGold]

Just a thought, but if you were asked to describe with only two words any New Yorker you ever met.




Would they ever be "He or She is a "Nice Person".

Some yes, some no but HATED the New Yawk accent on all! Only thing worse was Baston.