{"id":40108,"date":"2015-04-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/40108\/sorry-were-not-sorry-a-tribute-to-a-lebanese-ism"},"modified":"2023-08-30T06:52:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T06:52:29","slug":"sorry-were-not-sorry-a-tribute-to-a-lebanese-ism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/40108\/sorry-were-not-sorry-a-tribute-to-a-lebanese-ism\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry We&#8217;re Not Sorry: A Tribute To a Lebanese-ism"},"content":{"rendered":"<big>According to the classically terrible 1970 film, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Love_Story_%281970_film%29\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Love Story<\/a>, love means never having to say you\u2019re sorry. <br \/>  <br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images5.fanpop.com\/image\/photos\/26400000\/Love-means-never-having-to-say-you-re-sorry-love-story-the-movie-26452761-500-230.gif\"width=\"100%\"><br \/>  <br \/>  But in Lebanon, we say sorry a lot. <br \/>  <br \/>  One of the first phrases any foreigner learns upon coming to Lebanon is how to actually say the word, &#8220;sorry.&#8221; <br \/>  <br \/>  Suh-REE is the correct pronunciation. Not like the Canadian SORE-ee or the American SAWR\u2013EEE, it\u2019s more like the Indian garment sari, but rapid, with an almost imperceptible roll of the tongue at the &#8216;r&#8217;, and always with an upward inflection at the end, so it sounds like a question.  <br \/>  <br \/>  <i>Sari?<br \/>  Suh-ree?<br \/>  S\u2019ree?<\/i><br \/>  <br \/>  To an outsider, this linguistic twist could make Beirutis seem extraordinarily apologetic.  We\u2019re always going around saying \u201csorry.\u201d But let\u2019s get one thing straight: we may be saying &#8220;sorry,&#8221; but that in no way, shape or form should actually indicate that we&#8217;re sorry about anything.<br \/>  <br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_mevvkf1tjx1ro2d43.gif\"width=\"100%\"><br \/>  <br \/>  What we really mean is: \u201chey, you!\u201d \u2013 or even, \u201chey jerk, I want your attention,&#8221; or, \u201cHi d-bag, you certainly seem to enjoy taking up all the space on whatever shred of sidewalk we have here. Now would you mind getting the F out the way?<br \/>  <br \/>  When you say it correctly, it should have just a touch of passive aggression.<br \/>  <br \/>  When retail clerks use it to ask if you need help, what they really mean is: \u201care you going to buy something, or can I go back to texting my cousin?\u201d We also use it in restaurants to flag down waiters when they pretend they can\u2019t see you. (I CAN SEE YOU, FADI, SO I KNOW YOU CAN SEE ME) <\/big><br \/>  <br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/40108-2.png\" width=\"100%\"><br \/>  <br \/>  <big>I imagine that there are waiters who hear my voice in their nightmares saying, &#8220;SARI? SARI? SARRRRRRI?&#8221;<\/big><br \/>   <br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/40108-1-250x186.png\" width=\"100%\"><br \/>  <br \/>  <big>Like all good Lebanese-isms, such as \u201cHi\/ Keefik\/Ca Va?\u201d the \u201cSorry?\u201d is a product of this fair country\u2019s rich national heritage, and its status as a veritable melting pot of various cultures, languages, and traditions. 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