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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Like almost everything in Yiddish, Mac, spelling is optional. Have you ever noticed how many different spellings there are for Chanukah? Or Hannukkah, or Hanukkah, or Chanukkah (or almost any of these options without the ending “h”). Yiddish spelling is sort of like the New Math – you don’t need to get the right answer just so long as you understand the concept (or the person you’re talking or writing to can understand.) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Stephen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>Stephen Lawton<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>Special Projects Editorial Director<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>SC Media, A Haymarket Media Publication<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>New Office Phone Number: 503-747-5333<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'><a href="mailto:Stephen.Lawton@haymarketmedia.com">Stephen.Lawton@haymarketmedia.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/afabmedia">http://twitter.com/afabmedia</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>Facebook: <a href="http://facebook.com/SCMag">http://facebook.com/SCMag</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#C0504D'>Three things are certain: <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#C0504D'>Death, taxes and lost data. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#C0504D'>Guess which has occurred.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#C0504D'>—Author Unknown<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F'>The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. 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Thank you. </span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Webdings;color:#1C7C00'>P</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#1C7C00'> </span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1C7C00'>Please consider the </span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1C7C00'>environment</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1C7C00'> before printing this e-mail</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#006666'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Ipg-smz [mailto:ipg-smz-bounces@netpress.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mac McCarthy<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 24, 2019 5:49 PM<br><b>To:</b> ipg-smz@netpress.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Ipg-smz] Tchotchke<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Naiman's book has this distinction in it. Howver, it spells the rwo words with an 'l'.": schlemiel and schlemazel.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Mac <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 5:43 PM Stephen Lawton <<a href="mailto:sl@afab.com">sl@afab.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Gina – there’s a wonderful little book called Yiddish for Yankees. It gives you 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 a schimel. Nice, practical definitions. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Stephen</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>Stephen Lawton</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>Special Projects Editorial Director</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>SC Media, A Haymarket Media Publication</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>New Office Phone Number: 503-747-5333</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'><a href="mailto:Stephen.Lawton@haymarketmedia.com" target="_blank">Stephen.Lawton@haymarketmedia.com</a></span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/afabmedia" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/afabmedia</a></span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'>Facebook: <a href="http://facebook.com/SCMag" target="_blank">http://facebook.com/SCMag</a></span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#C0504D'>Three things are certain: </span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#C0504D'>Death, taxes and lost data. </span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#C0504D'>Guess which has occurred.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#C0504D'>—Author Unknown</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#002060'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F'>The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. </span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Webdings;color:#1C7C00'>P</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#1C7C00'> </span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1C7C00'>Please consider the </span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1C7C00'>environment</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1C7C00'> before printing this e-mail</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#006666'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> 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><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I don’t know from Yiddish, but I’m enjoying the heck out of this strand ..<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Gs <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 12:26 PM David Chernicoff <<a href="mailto:david@chernicoff.com" target="_blank">david@chernicoff.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid white 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><div id="m_-8176727296094994510m_-5670246113136777702divtagdefaultwrapper"><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>And for those of you who still want to work on their Yiddish</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="https://www.broadway.com/shows/fiddler-roof-yiddish/" target="_blank" id="m_-8176727296094994510m_-5670246113136777702LPlnk94749">https://www.broadway.com/shows/fiddler-roof-yiddish/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div id="m_-8176727296094994510m_-5670246113136777702Signature"><div name=divtagdefaultwrapper><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <br>David Chernicoff<br><a href="mailto:david@chernicoff.com" target="_blank">david@chernicoff.com</a><br>@DavidChernicoff<br><a href="http://www.chernicoff.com" target="_blank">www.chernicoff.com</a><br> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=3 width="98%" align=center></div><div id="m_-8176727296094994510m_-5670246113136777702divRplyFwdMsg"><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> 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> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid white 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid white 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Ellen,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>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> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>BUT if you put "a pity" into Google Translate, which also works for what I wanted to say, you get back "A shod.” <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Ah. Different words. Thanks.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Carol,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I took a whole year of Yiddish in college; it's old, long-term memory.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Ellen<br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><p> <o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>High-Tech Stories in Low-Tech Prose</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;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> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>973-734-1972</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>973-479-7598 (m)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p> <o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellenmuraskin" target="_blank"><span style='color:#0563C1'>https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellenmuraskin</span></a> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="https://ellenmuraskin.contently.com/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#006FA6;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>https://ellenmuraskin.contently.com/</span></a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:#CFEDFB'> (for marcomm work) </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="https://www.clippings.me/efm2" target="_blank"><span style='color:#006FA6;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>https://www.clippings.me/efm2</span></a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:#CFEDFB'> (for straight trade journalism)</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>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:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Hi-ho, all. Particularly Ellen Muraskin.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>"A <i>shod. </i>(A shame.)”<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I think the word is “shond.” I think.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Carol<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Who only remembers a few words in Yiddish. But tchotchke is one of them.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><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. <o:p></o:p></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. <o:p></o:p></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. <o:p></o:p></p><p>Knowing the drayage costs, I can see why.<o:p></o:p></p><p>Tom<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>On 1/23/19 12:41 PM, Dana Blankenhorn wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Yiddish continues to fade, as Israel discourages it in favor of modern Hebrew. <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Modern Hebrew is surprisingly similar to Arabic, btw, when you square off the letters. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Also, Sahara means desert in Arabic. <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 12:13 PM Stephen Satchell <<a href="mailto:ipg@satchell.net" target="_blank">ipg@satchell.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>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><br>-- <br>Ipg-smz mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Ipg-smz@netpress.org" 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