<div><div dir="auto">I can recommend "Every Goy's Guide to Common Yiddish Expressions," in which Arthur Naiman defines several dozen expressions and illustrates each with a joke. A very funny joke.</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Mac</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 10:20 AM Richi Jennings <<a href="mailto:richi.ipg@richi.uk">richi.ipg@richi.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Wikipedia editors claim it's originally of Slavic origin, and propose a number of alternative spellings: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tchotchke" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tchotchke</a></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_8242090404210156573gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:x-small"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:x-small"> <br>// <a href="http://twitter.com/RiCHi" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">@RiCHi</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> |</span> <a href="tel:%2B44.7789.200701" value="+447789200701" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">+44.7789.200701</a> | <a href="tel:1.408.256.0084" value="+14082560084" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">1.408.256.0084</a> </div><div style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:x-small">// Other contact details: <a href="http://richi.uk/contact" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.richi.uk/contact</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="m_8242090404210156573gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 6:14 PM Brian Santo <<a href="mailto:thedukeofdefinition@gmail.com" target="_blank">thedukeofdefinition@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Lived in NYC for a good long time, and couldn't help but pick up a few yiddish words. One of the most delightful things I've ever witnessed was walking into Russ & Daughters and watching an old man in orthodox garb speaking spanglish to the latino kid behind the counter who responded in yiddish/english. The melting pot is an excellent thing. <br></div><div><br></div><div>But what I'm hoping for, Steve, is the correct spelling of a word that nearly every technology writer has used but no two spell the same way, and it drives me mad. Is "tchotchke" correct? <br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 10:01 AM Steve Wexler <<a href="mailto:stevewexler.wordslingers@gmail.com" target="_blank">stevewexler.wordslingers@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">There are a lot of Yiddish words and expressions that have gained popularity and some longevity (but I'm fairly certain Yiddish never came up during the better part of six years in Israel).</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="m_8242090404210156573gmail-m_-775361743708055096gmail-m_-8023082667771259662gmail_attr">On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 at 11:33, Ellen Muraskin <<a href="mailto:ellenmuraskin@gmail.com" target="_blank">ellenmuraskin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">A <i>shod. </i>(A shame.) I'm a boomer who also studied Yiddish in college. Since my grandmother lived with us all my childhood, Yiddish <i>sounded </i>as familiar to me as English; I just didn't know what the words meant. After college I had a lot of fun speaking it with my other grandmother, who lived a lot longer. My parents understood a lot but didn't speak it. Now I'm going to start teaching it informally at my <i>shul</i>. Which is a <i>chutzpeh</i>, for sure. But <i>in dem land fun blindere</i>, the one-eyed man is king. We'll use <i>Colloquial Yiddish</i>, by Lily Kahn. <div><br></div><div>Kvetch-22. Love it. <br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_8242090404210156573gmail-m_-775361743708055096gmail-m_-8023082667771259662gmail-m_3568320158045584571gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Ellen Muraskin</span><br></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">High-Tech Stories in Low-Tech Prose</span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:red"><a href="mailto:efm2@optonline.net" target="_blank"><span style="color:red">ellen.muraskin@gmail.com</span></a>
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