[Ipg-smz] Yiddish

[Steve Wexler]

I thought 'bodega' was of Hispanic (i.e. non-Jewish) origin, but given the
history of Sephardim and Spain, maybe I shouldn't have.

On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 at 17:39, Dan Rosenbaum <dan at panix.com> wrote:

> 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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> Dan Rosenbaum
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> > On Jan 22, 2019, at 4:44 PM, Perlow, Jason <jperlow at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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:
> >>
> >>> 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.
> >>
> >> 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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