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etson speaks funny British…You can actually understand him, unless he is saucy and then he starts blabbering like he is in the ol’ country and you catch like every 3rd word.
[running for cover now]
By Kensingtonian on June 16, 2010 4:21 PM
Be careful Donatella. You might get portrayed in his blog as a mean gentrifier that you are…again… :o)
Yeah, I was HONORED to be the FEATURE of his blog for what, two/three WHOLE WEEKS!!!! (I think he was so impressed, stunned, one might say, he couldn’t put anything else on the blog for that long). Finally, someone giving me the full attention I deserve. I am even more impressive in person. Thank you!!!! And feel free to write about me fixing toilets, if you like.
um, what did I miss?
Some fightin going on here and am too lazy to scroll up and read.
Synopsis please.
FOR THE THIRD TIME……brownstoner had at least one link and I believe two to the police tapes story.
“Do Spanish speaking people have a reaction that this is the equivalent of the Queens English, i.e. elegant, proper?”
It’s equivalent to what I think about all of you ;-).
(actually I have a regional English accent, not a posh RP accent)
“What do you want me to do, bust out crying? That there are corrupt cops in NYC – or in the U.S.A. – is not news, so you can un-bunch your panties.”
It is news, as it’s one of the most read and circulated articles on the Village Voice right now. There are people including people here and Top Brass at the NYPD that would argue someone down if they made the accusations without the tapes being made. No panties here homeslice, are you mad I interrupted the daily circle jerk that goes on here daily?
“It’s touching that you care SO MUCH about the newcomers to the neighborhood!!!!”
I started a blog to give some perspective about the history of the hood to newcomers, so what are YOU talking about?! I also call them or anyone else on what I feel is is BS. Let’s not forget you called FG post-apocalyptic then was thoroughly refuted by not only me but several comments on my by old timers AND new comers to the hood. You didn’t even know they were two phamarcies in the hood as well as other “amenities” the hood has to offer. Please give me a break and keep crying about a coffee shop cause walking to Tillies is too far from Vanderbilt…and it’s ON Vanderbilt!
Kens, there is a very very smart guy in one of the classes, very nice and funny and very flamboyantly gay. He is of Turkish ancestry and he speaks in a “Castillian” aceent. It is hilarious because the lisp is so unbelieveably pronounced (X10 that of the Spanish teachers) but I didn’t know if Spanish speaking people themselves from other countries also thought that it was elegant. The BEST was the Cuban guy (I LOVE that teacher – just in US 3 years from Havana) doesn’t pronounce any S’s at all. The Argentinians have their own special deal, (sounds Italian…)
Be careful Donatella. You might get portrayed in his blog as a mean gentrifier that you are…again… :o)
donatella, they totally do. I studied abroad in Salamanca for a very short while and you had to see the sour faces everytime my dominican classmate ordered huevos y jamon for breakfast. They would cringe everytime they heard him speak and would snobbily correct him. It was pretty amusing.
The whole speaking with the lisp is really funny. Russell Peters did a hilarious stand-up about it (when I saw him live in Radio City) but I can’t find it on youtube :o(.