[Ipg-smz] Tchotchke

Sat Jan 26 00:52:19 UTC 2019

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.) 

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From: Ipg-smz [mailto:ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org] On Behalf Of Mac McCarthy
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2019 5:49 PM
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Naiman's book has this distinction in it. Howver, it spells the rwo words with an 'l'.": schlemiel and schlemazel.

Mac 

On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 5:43 PM Stephen Lawton <sl at afab.com> wrote:

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. 

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From: Ipg-smz [mailto:ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org] On Behalf Of Gina Smith
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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

https://www.broadway.com/shows/fiddler-roof-yiddish/

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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,

I took a whole year of Yiddish in college; it's old, long-term memory.

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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.

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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