{"id":878,"date":"2006-12-21T06:23:35","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T05:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2006\/12\/21\/borats_kazakh_is_actually_hebrew"},"modified":"2025-10-10T18:01:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:01:20","slug":"borats_kazakh_is_actually_hebrew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/12\/21\/borats_kazakh_is_actually_hebrew","title":{"rendered":"Borat&#8217;s Kazakh is actually Hebrew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Secret of Borat's fluent Kazakh - it's Hebrew | News | Guardian Unlimited Film\" href=\"http:\/\/film.guardian.co.uk\/news\/story\/0,,1975928,00.html\"><em>Guardian<\/em> Film: Secret of Borat&#39;s fluent Kazakh &#8211; it&#39;s Hebrew <\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the <em>Guardian<\/em> website: not only is the &quot;Kazakh&quot; spoken by Sacha Baron Cohen in <em>Borat<\/em> actually Hebrew, but the film is full of Israeli cultural references:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe film is peppered with Hebrew expressions and Israeli slang, inside jokes only Israelis could truly appreciate. In one scene, Borat sings the lyrics of a Hebrew folk song, Koom Bachur Atzel, which means &quot;get up lazy boy&quot;. Later, he refers to a Kazakh government scientist, &quot;Dr Yarmulke,&quot; who proved that a woman&#39;s brain is the size of a squirrel&#39;s. Even Borat&#39;s signature catchphrase &#8211; &quot;Wa wa wee wa,&quot; an expression for wow &#8211; derives from a skit on a popular comedy show and is often heard in Israel.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also <a href=\"http:\/\/abusinan.blogspot.com\/\">Abu Sinan<\/a> noticed that the name of Borat&#39;s home town &quot;Kusik&quot; <a href=\"http:\/\/umarlee.wordpress.com\/2006\/11\/28\/borat-the-character-and-cohen-the-jew\/#comment-735\">is an Arabic anatomical reference<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian Film: Secret of Borat&#39;s fluent Kazakh &#8211; it&#39;s Hebrew From the Guardian website: not only is the &quot;Kazakh&quot; spoken by Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat actually Hebrew, but the film is full of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-ea","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42181,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions\/42181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}