Stoops, oh oui!

Stoops are definitely a great symbol of New York.

I wish I could hang out every day with my camera 

and catch those trifling moments which are actually full of stories : 

A band playing innocently,
two girls drawing meticulously, 

a man reading his newspaper, 

a cat laying in the sun, 

kids surrounded with toys, 

a mum combing her daughter's hair
...

never ending stories

every single person has its own

own your stoop

enjoy it

as long as you can

what else do you need!

For those who like History, Stoop comes from a Dutch word (stoep) which means small porch.
I kind of want to learn Dutch now, it's a cool word, right?!

Peachy!

Some people are down

Some people are peachy

Today is peachy, tomorrow will be

 Let’s make a peachy crew!

It’s Peachy = C’est chouette.

Forcement, I like this one a lot!

Do I look like I fell off the turnip truck!

 

This phrase "seems to be a good example of an entire class of catch phrases based on urban-rural rivalry.

The thrust of such phrases is, of course, that 'I am not a fool or a newcomer,' and, in this case, that 'I am not an ignorant country bumpkin who just arrived in the big city on a truck full of lowly turnips that I was

dumb enough, on top of everything else, to fall off of.'  

This image of a bewildered hayseed ripe for fleecing by urban con artists is a close relative of more general phrases used to assert one's 'insider status' and thus intelligence or savvy.  

The United States being a nation largely composed of immigrants, it's not surprising that the all-time most commonly heard phrase of this type is 'I didn't just get off the boat.'"

Source: [Mark Israel, 'Phrase Origins: "fall off a turnip truck"', The alt.usage.english FAQ file,(line 4810), (29 Sept 1997)]

Mmmh blah

If you live in New York, you might never have to use this word.

But with humans, we never know. Everything can happen.

So we all know what blah blah blah means (like blah blah blah and blah blah blah and blah blah blah).
But do you know what just one blah means?

Aswer: you can use it to describe a feeling where you are a bit depressed, bored or even very depressed with no hope in future and you will say "I feel blah", "my day is so blah".

I told you though, don't worry : you might never have to use it here.

I'm not a spring chicken

Sling Slang Slung sling me a slong

Do did done don't be so wrong

Voici donc une nouvelle rubrique pour (bientôt déjà) une nouvelle année à New York.
J'en profite d'ailleurs pour dire merci à mes deux acolytes préférés pour cette perpétuelle inspiration.

Et donc cette fois-ci au détour d'un brunch (forcément dans un endroit génial que je m'empresse déjà de vous présenter dans un prochain article) me vint l'idée de partager quelques expressions bien typiques souvent issue du slang (argot) et qui me font bien délirer.

Si quelqu'un vous dit "I'm not a spring chicken" ne le regardez pas avec des gros yeux, ça veut tout simplement dire qu'il n'est plus un jeunot, naïf, débutant.

Maman si tu me lis j'ai une révélation : "I'm not a spring chicken!" (et tu le sais mais bisous je t'aime)