[Ipg-smz] Tchotchke

[Mac McCarthy]

In German: shade (shaaddah)

On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 1:59 PM Carol Pinchefsky <will_edit_for_food at mac.com>
wrote:

> Hi-ho, all. Particularly Ellen Muraskin.
>
> "A *shod. *(A shame.)”
>
> I think the word is “shond.” I think.
>
> Carol
> Who only remembers a few words in Yiddish. But tchotchke is one of them.
>
>
>
>
> 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.
>
> 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 *WTF Is Tchotchke?*, 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Knowing the drayage costs, I can see why.
>
> Tom
> On 1/23/19 12:41 PM, Dana Blankenhorn wrote:
>
> Yiddish continues to fade, as Israel discourages it in favor of modern
> Hebrew.
>
> Modern Hebrew is surprisingly similar to Arabic, btw, when you square off
> the letters.
>
> Also, Sahara means desert in Arabic.
>
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 12:13 PM Stephen Satchell <ipg at satchell.net>
> wrote:
>
>> On 1/23/19 9:09 AM, Steve Wexler wrote:
>> > Chutzpah: "gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, incredible 'guts',
>> presumption
>> > plus arrogance such as no other word and no other language can do
>> justice
>> > to".
>>
>> I always think of the word as "leading with your chin, and getting away
>> with it."
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