Get off my ass!

[imyourrushmore.livejournal.com]

haha a funny bumper sticker i saw in israel last month:



certainly not as funny in english, but "don't look at asses, but look at stop signs"

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[gera.livejournal.com]

I am sure for many of the learners here it's a "word of the day" post...

[oryx_and_crake]

Better to say bums or butts instead of asses, because asses in the context of street traffic can be understood as donkeys or stupid drivers.

[imyourrushmore.livejournal.com]

yeah you're right
i guess it's not meant to be so harsh

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Yup... the one who invented that certainly meant the passing-by bums :)

[serialcondition.livejournal.com]

funny

[oryx_and_crake]

OK you can say BUTTOCKS to be so very precise

:-Р

[g0mez.livejournal.com]

FYI
"стопы" stands for brakelights here, not octogonal signs.

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

It's not against the law, I agree ;-)

[ob-ivan.livejournal.com]

[stop] sign is extremely rude in Israel. the reason is that since hebrew reads from right to left, the [stop] sign could be easily read as [pots], which is the same word as "falloimitator" (or whatever you call it in colloq english)

[imyourrushmore.livejournal.com]

haha but no one sees it that way there.
i mean it's just internationally accepted as "STOP"
just about any israeli will automatically read
english from left to right, so unless they are dislexic,
there shouldn't be any confusion.

[imyourrushmore.livejournal.com]

yeah but that's why it's "STOPы"
they mean "STOP" as in stop sign
and it looks funny

[red-kitti.livejournal.com]

I just have to say that I absolutely love your user icon... Very cute:)

[imyourrushmore.livejournal.com]

oh thank you :)