As a linguistic specialist in University I tend to analyze and notice speaking more than others around me. Although I'm the most in producing tongue slips .. I always correct those of others .. Laughing at mine and theirs. Since I'm totally free these days with exactly nothing to do .. I started analyzing our talk as Kuwaities. I have two notes I wanna share with all of you.
First, the word of (Edamir, يدمر = To stain). If we had a tiny stain we would say, "بلوزتي تدمرت". lets see what this means in Standard Arabic (تدمير = تحطيم، تهشيم، تخريب), which is in English (destruction, ruin, devastation). So, the actual translation of the sentence would be >>> My blouse has been DESTRUCTED, RUINED, DEVASTATED!!!!
Oh god .. This is so cruel .. And funny. I wonder how the use of it started?!
Second, when we're expressing our complete Love and affection to someone .. What would we say?? ( أموت عليك/ عليج ). Which is translated literary as >>> I Die over you :/ or something. My point is .. Why would a very negative word as (DYING) will be involved in an expression of a very positive feeling like love and affection?!
I'm not Resenting our BEAUTIFUL Kuwaiti language use .. I'm just wondering about the origin of some strange choices in our talk. Kuwait .. أنا أموت عليج