[Ipg-smz] Tchotchke

[Gina Smith]

I don’t know from Yiddish, but I’m enjoying the heck out of this strand ..
Gs

On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 12:26 PM David Chernicoff <david at chernicoff.com>
wrote:

> And for those of you who still want to work on their Yiddish
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> https://www.broadway.com/shows/fiddler-roof-yiddish/
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> David Chernicoff
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> *From:* Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org> on behalf of Carol
> Pinchefsky <will_edit_for_food at mac.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 23, 2019 5:51:58 PM
> *To:* ipg-smz at netpress.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Ipg-smz] Tchotchke
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>
> Ellen,
>
> 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/*Lomir afile nit gayn dortn.*
>
> BUT if you put "a pity" into Google Translate, which also works for what I
> wanted to say, you get back "A shod.”
>
>
> Ah. Different words. Thanks.
>
> Carol,
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>
>
> I took a whole year of Yiddish in college; it's old, long-term memory.
>
> Ellen
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>
> High-Tech Stories in Low-Tech Prose
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> ellen.muraskin at gmail.com <efm2 at optonline.net>
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> 973-734-1972
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> 973-479-7598 (m)
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> https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellenmuraskin
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> https://ellenmuraskin.contently.com/ (for marcomm work)
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> https://www.clippings.me/efm2 (for straight trade journalism)
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> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 4:59 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.
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>> 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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