Wednesday, July 23, 2008

when bad english goes badder

I don't often blog about people I know, but when I opened my Inbox yesterday morning and read what I'm about to share with you, I knew this had to be blogged. I had no choice.

First, let me introduce you to my friend Peter, who currently lives in Kiev, Ukraine. Before I received this E-mail I really knew only a few things about Peter -- he's from Iowa, he used to live in Moscow and he once wore an eye-patch to a Stereo Total show just for lulz. But with the arrival of this historic E-mail yesterday, I learned so much more...[WARNING: "COLORFUL" LANGUAGE COMING UP!]

As some of you know, I indulge in a pretty geeky online game called Travian -- you've all heard me say, at one time or another, "I have to take care of my villages!" or something equally NERDLY.

Anyway, in this online game you can attack other players, which I do, because I'm a dick. Now, the game has a built in messaging system; you can send messages to any player in the little online world in which you are playing. The multinational, multicultural nature of the game has made for some pretty amusing English -- and given that the messages are usually angry missives demanding that I stop attacking the senders, the tone is usually pretty strident.


Anyway, I was attacking this one dude, who sent me what is DEFINITIVELY the best correspondence I have ever received from anyone, ever. I am pasting it below, in its entirety, for your enjoyment. Please feel free to pass it along, and ask yourselves -- what's a yancale? Ahem:

"Stop attacking me you fucking bitch your mother do gavoa gavoa and your father do in the hand and sister is a bitch in rehovot and your brother is a kaki (by shimonle) and you have a big yancale in your fucking Ass and your mother dohefet coks to her zain and your father lick her big tits and your sister to in the hand to your brother and your grenma is a bitch in tel-aviv and your a moher samim in Bankok,and you sister need to get back her braw from my room hahahahahahahahahahahahahahah your doing with me in the bad tomorrow soryy on the shgiot htiv
Another somting: your sister said that its very fun in my bed and she wunt to come agin evrey day tell her that i will be happy and your mom is bitch nun bet. ata kaki met"
Wow. Just wow. That is, perhaps, definitively the best missive ever. What the hell is a "yancale?" And while we're at it, what's a zain? And, I shudder to think, but what is the meaning of "by shimonle?" I'm soryy on the shgiot htiv, but I just don't have any answers!

I'm honestly not quite sure how this person's English got so awesomely bad. Perhaps he learned only through this nerdly computer game? And here I am trying to learn Russian through silly things like books and grammar. But you know what books and grammar get you? A grammatically correct lexicon! And where the ata kaki met is the fun in that?! Dohefet grammar and legit "words!" That's right, I said it! DOHEFET! Peter, where do I sign up for this nerd squad of yours? I already blog everyday and am learning more and more HTML code by the minute, so I'm pretty sure I could kick some gavoa gavoa at this Travian you speak of. Trust me, you wouldn't want to e-mess with this nun bet.

Who's with me?! Let's take care of some villages!

[Thanks Peter :) And another somting: Go moher samim yourself in Bankok. For realsies.]

15 comments:

Peter said...

What really hurt is when he said that grenma is a bitch in tel aviv. ANYWHERE BUT TEL AVIV!!!!!

Capitol Hill 20210 said...

omg thats funny............I want to play this game now.

Marissa said...

peter--

Seriously, we all know your grenma is a bitch in abu dhabi. DUH!

cap hill--

I know! I might seriously give it a shot. (As if I need another reason to spend more time behind a computer screen...) But look at the people I could meet! Word on the nerd street is that Server 3 is where the best village idiots are at.

Beach Bum said...

He, I'd totally keep attacking him just for that!

Capitol Hill 20210 said...

I will check this out when I get home, I may have to do this too - hahah down with the villages

rachaelgking said...

"That's not what your mom said when she dohefetting coks to her zain last night!!!"

Now if I can just remember any of this to use on the street...

Anonymous said...

The best I can do:
kaki = shit
zain = dick
moher samim = drug dealer
ata kaki met= you're dead shit

It loses something in translation though....

I-66 said...

I am nearing tears over here. This is awesome.

I'm dying to find out what gavoa gavoa means. And by shimonle I will find out.

Shannon said...

Marissa, you are a bitch nun bet, bar none.

I-66 said...

If that's hebrew, evidently the word "gavoa" is surf slang for "high", as in the size of a wave.

I hope it means something else.

Marissa said...

bb--

It's the only reason I'd want to sign up. I learned to love awkward broken English convos in Russia.

cap hill--

I'll see you on Server 3.

livit--

Seriously, some of this seems more offensive than actually swear words.

anon--

Dang. Really? I'd say I was right about two of the four. "Drug dealer" and "you're dead shit" were too much for me to try to guess at. Wow. Peter, watch your e-back!

i-66--

That is some impressive sleuthing...

shannon--

Back at you! Mwah!

Anonymous said...

have i told you lately...that i love you?? cause seriously... in the words of andy dick...that shit is talent...not the kind of talent you can teach..the kind of talent that a gay wizard has to fuck into you...
xoxo

Marissa said...

suicide--

Wow, a gay wizard? I'm honored!

Anonymous said...

ummm..yeah ... sorry bout that...it was late and tequila was involved...
xoxo

Righteous (re)Style said...

I totally think that shi*t was generated by a computer program. Really, can't you see it?