#170 A Commemoration of Corners

Streetwise Hebrew

TLV1 Studios

Israel, Tlv1, Religion & Spirituality, Language Learning, Education, Language, Judaism, Hebrew, Streetwise

4.9 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2017

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

We always talk about what's around the corner or why it's a bad idea to cut them, but never the corner itself. So on this episode, Guy gives corners, 'pinot' in Hebrew, the attention they deserve!

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Words and expressions discussed:

La-kova sheli shalosh pinot – My hat has three corners – לכובע שלי שלוש פינות

Pina, pinot – Corner, corners – פינה, פינות

Pinat lituf – Petting corner – פינת ליטוף

Lelatef – To pet, caress – ללטף

Me'ever la-pina - Beyond the corner – מעבר לפינה

Pinot ha-ir – The corners of the city – פינות העיר

Café pinati – Corner café – קפה פינתי

Shulchan pinati – Corner table – שולחן פינתי

"Pinati" – A name of a famous Jerusalem restaurant – פינתי

Pinat/pinot ishun – A smoking corner/s – פינת/פינות עישון

Le'agel pinot – To cut corners – לעגל פינות

Hu me'agel pinot – He cuts corners – הוא מעגל פינות

Litfos pina – To catch a corner, means to grab a chair and sit somewhere quiet to do something – לתפוס פינה

Tfos pina, ve-tigmor lichtov – Grab a corner and finish writing – תפוס פינה ותגמור לכתוב

Achshav le-pinat ha-mahshevim shelanu – And now to our segment on computers – עכשיו לפינת המחשבים שלנו

Pina be-inyanei mashehu – A segment about something – פינה בענייני משהו

Music:

Uzi Hitman – La-kova Sheli (lyrics)
Sarit Hadad – Ahava Me'ever La-pina (lyrics)
Rivka Zohar – Al Kapav Yavi (lyrics)
Rami Kleinstein – Adayin Kayemet (lyrics)
Pinati restaurant

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This is T.L. V. 1. Street-wise Hebrew.
0:13.0	Shalom, it's me Guy with Street-wise Hebrew.
0:17.0	First of all, thanks so much dear patrons. We appreciate your help.
0:21.0	If you want to become a supporter of the show, please go to T.L.v.1.F.M. slash SWH.
0:28.0	Patrons will find all kinds of perks there as our way to say thanks. Kowal sheli, no leja you lo shalosh Pinot.
0:44.8	Loahayaz ehak kowvacheli.
0:48.8	Lakova sheli chalow spinot, famous children's song. Today I'd like to talk about Pina Corner, Pinot Corners.
0:59.0	And this is a famous song we all know. my hat has three corners
1:03.0	La Kova Sheli Shalosh Pinot so Pinna is feminine
1:07.4	pay yud nunhe so shallosh Pinot
1:10.6	three corners
1:12.1	what's pinat Littuf? Petting corner. So Pinat Littuf is where
1:17.0	Israelis take their kids to meet animals and Lelatef O'tan to pet them.
1:22.1	So Pinat becomes Pinat in Smichut compound noun, corner of petting literally.
1:29.7	Some of you know that I lead urban culture and street art tours in Florentine in South Tel Aviv.
1:35.2	One of the things that I show are Pinotly Tuf, petting corners, by an artist called I Love Corners. If you write it in one word on Facebook you'll find
1:45.1	her work. She puts different textures on corners in the neighborhood and we are
1:50.5	invited to touch and pet them and feel the art.
1:53.5	Sometimes it's furry, sometimes it feels like grass, etc.
1:57.0	I interviewed her on Facebook and she told me nobody talks about corners,
2:01.5	people just say turn right after the corner, so she wants to
2:04.8	celebrate cornerness and she places her art only on corners. So that's the
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