to speak POSH in your language.

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Re: to speak POSH in your language.

Postby KingHarvest » 2009-01-03, 17:44

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Re: to speak POSH in your language.

Postby jaybee » 2009-01-04, 15:35

I'm almost certain that there isn't a way to speak posh in Arabic.
It's hard to imagine.. besides, there are enough dialects already.. no need for a posh one.

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Re: to speak POSH in your language.

Postby Johanna » 2009-01-04, 16:48

jaybee wrote:I'm almost certain that there isn't a way to speak posh in Arabic.
It's hard to imagine.. besides, there are enough dialects already.. no need for a posh one.

In Saudi it's not posher to talk like the royal family than like someone poor from the working class?
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Re: to speak POSH in your language.

Postby Steisi » 2009-01-04, 17:11

People who speak posh in my area pronounce their t's, don't vocalise their l's and have different vowels from me. Google estuary english :P
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Re: to speak POSH in your language.

Postby jaybee » 2009-01-04, 17:39

Johanna wrote:
jaybee wrote:I'm almost certain that there isn't a way to speak posh in Arabic.
It's hard to imagine.. besides, there are enough dialects already.. no need for a posh one.

In Saudi it's not posher to talk like the royal family than like someone poor from the working class?


It isn't. The way someone speaks strongly depends on where they are from. As far as I know, the working class could very well talk just like the royal family if they are from say Riyadh or something.
And maybe some people would think that a certain dialect is posher than the other.. but that's just personal preference.. and not because it is a posh way of speaking.
In Arabic.. there isn't posh.. but formal. The closer the Arabic is to the Standard Arabic, the more formal. I know that they are different things, but that's all I can think of when I'm trying to figure out what is posh Arabic.

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Re: to speak POSH in your language.

Postby KingHarvest » 2009-01-04, 17:46

Couldn't FusHa be considered posh?
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Re: to speak POSH in your language.

Postby jaybee » 2009-01-04, 18:09

FusHa is standard Arabic. And when everyone uses it for reading, writing, and in formal speaking situations.. I guess it makes everyone posh? ...
There are different levels of FusHa though. Let's say someone has a better vocabulary and a more sophisticated way of speaking. Though I still wouldn't consider that as posh FusHa, it's closer to it.. I guess.
But if someone speaks FusHa ALL the time.. that's not posh.. that's just weird.


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