[Ipg-smz] Yiddish

[Alan Zeichick]

I didn’t know the word ‘bodega’ until we moved to California. 

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> On Jan 22, 2019, at 3:39 PM, Dan Rosenbaum <dan at panix.com> wrote:
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> I once used the word “bodega” in fireEMS — I was the editor — and I couldn’t get it past the copy desk in Oklahoma.
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>> On Jan 22, 2019, at 4:44 PM, Perlow, Jason <jperlow at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I used to throw in Yiddish into my columns and I got too many comments from people that they didn't understand what I was saying. So I've stopped that practice.
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>> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 2:39 PM Tom Henderson <thenderson at extremelabs.com> wrote:
>> I've read Leo Rosten's books. He *is* amazing.
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>> Tom
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>>> On 1/22/19 1:37 PM, Tom Geller wrote:
>>>> On 22 Jan 2019, at 13:30, Mac McCarthy <mac.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> 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.
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>>> That sounds like a knock-off of books by the amazing Leo Rosten, starting with "The Joys of Yiddish" in 1968. There are sequels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joys_of_Yiddish
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