[Ipg-smz] Tchotchke

Sat Jan 26 15:16:38 UTC 2019

Uhm Stephen, I think you have the definitions for schlemiel and
schlemazel reversed. From distant memories of my bubbie and Huff Post a few
years back: "*A schlemiel is somebody who often spills his soup and a
schlimazel is the person it lands on.*

Norman
Producer-Director
"A Place to Dance"
now in preproduction

On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 8:43 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
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 24, 2019 2:03 AM
> *To:* ipg-smz at netpress.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Ipg-smz] Tchotchke
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> I don’t know from Yiddish, but I’m enjoying the heck out of this strand ..
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> Gs
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> On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 12:26 PM David Chernicoff <david at chernicoff.com>
> wrote:
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> 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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> *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,
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> 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.*
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> BUT if you put "a pity" into Google Translate, which also works for what I
> wanted to say, you get back "A shod.”
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> Ah. Different words. Thanks.
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> I took a whole year of Yiddish in college; it's old, long-term memory.
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> Ellen
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> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 4:59 PM Carol Pinchefsky <
> will_edit_for_food at mac.com> wrote:
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> Hi-ho, all. Particularly Ellen Muraskin.
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> "A *shod. *(A shame.)”
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> I think the word is “shond.” I think.
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> Carol
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Knowing the drayage costs, I can see why.
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> Tom
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> On 1/23/19 12:41 PM, Dana Blankenhorn wrote:
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> Yiddish continues to fade, as Israel discourages it in favor of modern
> Hebrew.
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> Modern Hebrew is surprisingly similar to Arabic, btw, when you square off
> the letters.
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> Also, Sahara means desert in Arabic.
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> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 12:13 PM Stephen Satchell <ipg at satchell.net>
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> 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".
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> I always think of the word as "leading with your chin, and getting away
> with it."
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