Did Biden say Inshallah?

[kpete]

That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you throw shade.

Wajahat Ali said so.

Inshallah is the Arabic version of “fuggedaboudit.” It’s similar to how the British use the word “brilliant” to both praise and passive-aggressively deride everything and everyone. It transports both the speaker and the listener to a fantastical place where promises, dreams and realistic goals are replaced by delusional hope and earnest yearning.

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“Millions of dollars, and you’ll get to see it,” Trump said of the amount he claims to have paid.

“When?” the Democratic presidential nominee interjected. “Inshallah?”
Suddenly, many Arab American viewers (and plenty of others) were collectively doing a double-take on the Internet. Did Biden — yes, the 77-year-old, gaffe-prone, Roman Catholic native of Scranton, Pa. — really just use “inshallah,” arguably the most ubiquitous phrase in Arabic?


Hours later, his campaign confirmed to NPR that it was true: Biden had in fact used the phrase — which literally and seriously means “God willing” in Arabic and Farsi — but can also take on a sharp, sardonic tenor that has led the writer Wajahat Ali to call it the “Arabic version of ‘fuggedaboudit.’ ”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/1/1982028/-Thursday-Pundit-Round-up?utm_campaign=trending

[Bayard]

1. Southern U.S. version:

Well, bless your heart!

[Hekate]

2. There's gotta be one in every culture!

[ihas2stinkyfeet]

4. ok. now i need to know the irish was version. anyone?

[crud]

5. Feck'n Idgit

[ihas2stinkyfeet]

7. well, i guess we are direct like that. lord knows i am.

maybe its- at the end of the rainbow, w the gold.

[mcar]

13. Amadan

Noun. amadan (plural amadans) (dialect, Ireland) fool, loony, idiot.

amadan - Wiktionary

[ihas2stinkyfeet]

14. ok, these are great words but i see where things went off track. bless his heart was

not a good interpretation of inshallah, but the person who said it.

what i meant was, the word for 'someday, maybe, if you are lucky.'

gonna remember amadan, tho, and hope i dont get too many opportunities to use it.

[El Supremo]

3. I heard him say it and was taken aback.

I don't think pious Muslims would use it sarcastically, but it is used all the time by Arab speakers.

[ihas2stinkyfeet]

8. i read that the devout are pissed.

[displacedtexan]

11. Really? Try this link for some clarity.

[ihas2stinkyfeet]

12. think it was a cnn article.

this came up yesterday, iirc. the article explained the term, etc. but in true cnn fashion, it ended w a graph about the devout being upset that it was taking allah's name in vain for biden to use it.
so i guess i should just fuggitqboudit. cuz cnn.

[Danmel]

6. I read that it was a shout out to servicemembers who served in Iraq

https://theamericanscholar.org/inshallah/#.X3YGWGkpCdM

[displacedtexan]

9. Translations depend on context. Example: "Sure. Like that's gonna happen."

Another one from my neighbors' kids: "As if!"

[honest.abe]

10. Love it!

But of course the RW will use this to prove Biden is pro-Islam or pro-Arab and hates America or something like that.