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Item #3 (Advanced Level)

Talking in Honkese

There are three official languages in Israel: Hebrew, Arabic and Honkese.
Honkese, its vocabulary is low but understood by all. There’s the “gentle
little one”: wakes you up when you’re napping at the traffic light; there’s
“the long one”: punishes you when you didn’t react at the proper speed, or
when you cut into the line, or didn’t let that guy cut in. When (you’re)
celebrating a soccer victory… when we call someone to calm down,
there’s a shortened version… I don’t envy people who live near traffic
lights, there’s no night or day for them. No one thinks that they’re still
sleeping at six AM and maybe (you) can not honk the person who fell
asleep first on the green. Nobody thinks that at eight PM maybe they’re
putting a baby to sleep and this isn’t the time for a tantrum on the honk?
I’m currently working on a national program for charging money for
honking. This box will be installed in each car – a honking meter. On the
annual test, attached to the honk, counts both the honking as well as
measures their length. For each honk above two (you) get free every day,
one NIS! Studies show that over-using the car horn, not just for
emergencies, creates an overload for our nerve systems. Our nerves are on
edge here anyway; let’s try to honk one less time a day.

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