oy vey and uff da
My favorite comment thread I’ve seen this morning is on a Gizmodo article about the Morbius movie’s end-credits scenes. (The article was published last week.)
One commenter wrote:
oi vey
Another commenter replied:
ditto
And a third commenter added:
oofta
I have long thought that oy vey (from Yiddish) and uff da (from Norwegian) were kind of equivalents, from two of my ancestral cultures. I always vaguely meant to write a more detailed post about that at some point, but instead I’ll just express my amusement at the juxtaposition in that comments thread.