<div dir="ltr">My Irish mother learned some yiddish because we were on Long Island. We called Massapequa "Matzoh Pizza" because half our neighbors were Jewish and half Italian. My friends were surprised in high school when I revealed I was Roman Catholic. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 9:25 PM Tom Henderson <<a href="mailto:thenderson@extremelabs.com">thenderson@extremelabs.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>The extra L is the way I learned it. How did my Irish mother know
Yiddish? She picked up German after WW2. Spoke French and Gaelic
(now and then). My friend JohnnyG knew Hebrew, Yiddish, German,
and yes, Gaelic because his nanny was Irish off-the-boat. Me?
Scots English, Canadian English. UK English, Hoosier English,
French & Creole, words my parents spoke to obfuscate their
conversation, which turned out to be mostly Yiddish learned from
my mother, whose nanny was, yes, Russian Jewish. Twelve years of
Latin. ASL/ISL. C. Assembler. Perl. Py. My life has been language
constructs with crappy vocabulary lessons. Always the vocabulary.
Amo Amas Amat....veni vidi video. <br>
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<p>Tom</p>
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<div class="m_2158727846944502688moz-cite-prefix">On 1/24/19 8:48 PM, Mac McCarthy wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">Naiman's book has this distinction in it.
Howver, it spells the rwo words with an 'l'.": schlemiel and
schlemazel.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Mac </div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 5:43 PM Stephen Lawton
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a variety of Yiddish terms and their translation.
For example, there’s the schimazel and the. schimel.
Let’s say two people are going down a flight of
stairs and one kicks over a bucket of water. That
guy’s really a schimazel. The one it lands on – he’s
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span>From:</span></b><span>
Ipg-smz [mailto:<a href="mailto:ipg-smz-bounces@netpress.org" target="_blank">ipg-smz-bounces@netpress.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Gina Smith<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 24, 2019 2:03 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org" target="_blank">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Ipg-smz] Tchotchke</span></p>
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<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">I don’t know from Yiddish, but
I’m enjoying the heck out of this strand ..</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Gs </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 12:26
PM David Chernicoff <<a href="mailto:david@chernicoff.com" target="_blank">david@chernicoff.com</a>>
wrote:</p>
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<p><span>And for those of you who still want
to work on their Yiddish</span></p>
<p><span> </span></p>
<p><span><a href="https://www.broadway.com/shows/fiddler-roof-yiddish/" id="m_2158727846944502688m_-8176727296094994510m_-5670246113136777702LPlnk94749" target="_blank">https://www.broadway.com/shows/fiddler-roof-yiddish/</a></span></p>
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<br>
David Chernicoff<br>
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@DavidChernicoff<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span>From:</span></b><span>
Ipg-smz <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz-bounces@netpress.org" target="_blank">ipg-smz-bounces@netpress.org</a>>
on behalf of Carol Pinchefsky <<a href="mailto:will_edit_for_food@mac.com" target="_blank">will_edit_for_food@mac.com</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 23, 2019
5:51:58 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org" target="_blank">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Ipg-smz] Tchotchke</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ellen,</p>
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<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br>
<br>
</p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">If you plug "a
shame" into Google Translate, the
Yiddish it gives you is "a shande."
Which a lot of people know. As in,
"a shande far di goyim," i.e., a
disgrace in front of non-Jews, as
in, "Stephen Miller is a shonda far
di goyim." with Michael Cohen
right behind him; let's not even go
there/<i>Lomir afile nit gayn dortn.</i> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">BUT if you put
"a pity" into Google Translate,
which also works for what I wanted
to say, you get back "A shod.” </p>
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<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ah. Different
words. Thanks.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Carol,</p>
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<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">I took a whole
year of Yiddish in college; it's
old, long-term memory.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ellen<br>
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<p> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Jan 23,
2019 at 4:59 PM Carol Pinchefsky
<<a href="mailto:will_edit_for_food@mac.com" target="_blank">will_edit_for_food@mac.com</a>>
wrote:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi-ho, all.
Particularly Ellen Muraskin.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">"A <i>shod. </i>(A
shame.)”</p>
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<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">I think the
word is “shond.” I think.</p>
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<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">Carol</p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">Who only
remembers a few words in
Yiddish. But tchotchke is one
of them.</p>
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<div>
<p>Long ago and far away,
for the Networld-InterOp
Daily News, I was asked
to do an article on
tchotchke. Usually, I
wrote what *I* thought
was interesting. A
request from ON HIGH, as
the concept of branding
was coming into vogue,
asked if I could do such
a piece. I demurred. It
was an easy piece to
write. </p>
<p>Few other pieces I've
written have provoked
such a strong reaction,
a cavalcade of tchotchke
ratings, complaints,
hoarder museum pieces,
and more. After everyone
got past <i>WTF Is
Tchotchke?</i>, most
everyone had an opinion,
including: recycling the
stuff (the food chain of
trade show t-shirts was
interesting), water
bottles (Junior's going
to look cool with this
in middle school), and
the onerous: these are
bribes with logos. </p>
<p>A couple of wags
related how they waited
until the show was about
to close, then offered
extraordinarily low-ball
offers to just take the
booth demo units home
with them, sometimes
benefiting in the tens
of thousands of dollars
from weary booth
personnel. Some were
gifted stuff, as in
here, just take it. </p>
<p>Knowing the drayage
costs, I can see why.</p>
<p>Tom</p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">On
1/23/19 12:41 PM, Dana
Blankenhorn wrote:</p>
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<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yiddish
continues to fade,
as Israel
discourages it in
favor of modern
Hebrew. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">Modern
Hebrew is
surprisingly
similar to Arabic,
btw, when you
square off the
letters. </p>
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<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">Also,
Sahara means
desert in Arabic. </p>
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<div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">On
Wed, Jan 23, 2019
at 12:13 PM
Stephen Satchell
<<a href="mailto:ipg@satchell.net" target="_blank">ipg@satchell.net</a>> wrote:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On
1/23/19 9:09 AM,
Steve Wexler
wrote:<br>
> Chutzpah:
"gall, brazen
nerve, effrontery,
incredible 'guts',
presumption<br>
> plus
arrogance such as
no other word and
no other language
can do justice<br>
> to".<br>
<br>
I always think of
the word as
"leading with your
chin, and getting
away<br>
with it."<br>
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