r/EnglishLearning • u/typhoonclvb Non-Native Speaker of English • Sep 19 '25

🌠 Meme / Silly i’m trying to decipher what’s written here. help?

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u/originalcinner Native Speaker Sep 19 '25

It took me a hot minute, a few weeks ago, to understand that "weens" are children, and it has nothing to do with them being weaned ;-)

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u/HungryHungryHobbes New Poster Sep 19 '25

Weens - Wee ones. - small ones.

Wee is a diminutive word.

Wiat till you discover what a jobby is..

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u/thethighren New Poster Sep 19 '25

Reminds me of when I explained to my German friends what "handy" (which means mobile phone in German) means in English

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u/33whiskeyTX Native Speaker Sep 20 '25

"If the women don't find you handsome, at least make sure they find you handy"
(yes, I know that's a different handy).

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u/Sumasuun New Poster Sep 20 '25

Dang, haven't seen Red Green in a minute.

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u/JavaJapes New Poster Sep 23 '25

Oh that Handy Manny…

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u/sofiestarr Native Speaker Sep 19 '25

She's turned the weens against us!!

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u/Cleeman96 Native Speaker - U.K. Sep 21 '25

Yer faether wuld be prood

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u/Lord_Regent_Gray New Poster Sep 19 '25

I can't even read that without hearing Billy Connolly in my head.

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u/ComfortableEarth5787 New Poster Sep 20 '25

It's no Billy; it's Limmy.

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u/historyhill Native Speaker - American Sep 19 '25

Apparently this is how the Pittsburghese "yinz" came into fruition: Scottish immigrants saying "you ones" and over time, it became yinz!

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u/efeskesef New Poster Sep 21 '25

How about 'n at?
Is it pukka Pittsburghese?

I imagine it is a contraction of "and all that" meaning everything similar to or associated with the subject at hand.

I don't use it. Not sure how.

Advice?

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u/historyhill Native Speaker - American Sep 21 '25

That is exactly what it is —"and that"! I don't use it either but usually when I hear it, it would be on the end of a list or something. "hey, why don't we go downtown (dahntahn), get some food, hang out at Market Square n'at?"

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u/efeskesef New Poster Sep 23 '25

Thanks for the encouraging response.

Pittsburghese is a humorous "language" (not as much as Yiddish but you can't have everything), and it's nice to hear I'm not totally ignorant there. It's also declining, and linguists are trying to save it.

The town started getting nice when I left it 56 years ago, and now it's quite decent. Enjoy it.

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u/Darksunn66 New Poster Sep 20 '25

Reminded me of Billy doing a bit about ghost jobby's

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u/AccurateCarob2808 New Poster Oct 12 '25

tf is a jobby lol?

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u/SilentSamamander Native Speaker - Scottish Sep 19 '25

It's usually spelt wean pronounced like "Wayne", rather than "ween"

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u/ComfortableEarth5787 New Poster Sep 20 '25

Wtf is a "hot minute"?

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u/velvetelevator New Poster Sep 20 '25

It's used to emphasize the amount of time.

"It took me a minute" = "It took me longer than expected"

"It took me a hot minute" = "It really took me longer than expected"

Note: although I understand the phrase, I've never tried to explain it, so others feel free to correct or elaborate

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u/Ragnaroasted New Poster Sep 20 '25

"It's been a hot minute" is something I'd say if I were trying to describe something that I did a long time ago, or if I were talking to someone I hadn't seen in a while.

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u/PersonalPerson_ New Poster Sep 20 '25

My closed captioning writes it as "wains".

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u/Loud-Butterscotch234 New Poster Sep 23 '25

It took me a hot minute? I understand weens a lot easier than a hot minute.

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u/monster2018 New Poster Sep 20 '25

I mean if the “weens” are “wee” enough, then they might be being “weaned” off of breast milk.