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- busch30pack, on 01/16/2008, -3/+27Since we all obviously have English pretty well mastered....
- heatman, on 01/16/2008, -3/+22Hey douche, this article is about Yiddish, a 10th C. originating language spoken primarily in Eastern Europe that is a combination of Hebrew and German.
I has ***** nothing to do with Israel or Palestine or that entire millennia old conflict you so daftly dumbed down to typical flaming asshattery
RTFA & STFU - allisonrose870, on 01/16/2008, -2/+19I always loved hearing my parents and grandparents speak Yiddish. I only wish I could speak it fluently as they all did. One of my favorite Yiddish words - Nebbish - however didn't make the list. Oh well ...
"In the 1930s, Yiddish was spoken by more than 10 million people, but by 1945, 75% of them were gone"
On a little history side note there, Yiddish exploded among Eastern European Jews - especially during the 1930's, because of the rise of Hitler. Jews were hiding their Jewish identities. One way was to combine German and Hebrew to form Yiddish so their language didn't give them up (more or less). It waned significantly by 1945 due to the Holocaust and those that survived the Holocaust brought Yiddish to America, where bits and pieces somehow slipped into the popular culture. - misteral, on 01/16/2008, -2/+19Mazel Tov and shalom are a hebrew words, not a Yiddish words.
And in years of listening to my grandparents talk yiddish, I can understand anything they say - but I have NEVER heard anyone say baleboste. - absurdist, on 01/16/2008, -0/+15Please, go. Don't let the door hit you in the tuchis on the way out. And take your racist scum ilk with you.
- coltrane68, on 01/16/2008, -5/+20Do yourself a favor. Don't use Yiddish if you can't pronounce it. Yiddish sounds great when it flows freely in conversation, but it sounds stilted when it is forced.
- sequethin, on 01/16/2008, -2/+14as a citizen of new york city these words have been incorporated into my vocabulary from birth. And no one in my family is jewish either... ;)
- slimjim5811, on 01/16/2008, -3/+14Missing from the list...
"Give me a schtickle of flouride."
~ Tim Whatley: Jerry Seinfeld's Dentist - lnf69, on 01/16/2008, -4/+14A more thorough explanation of Schmuck and Putz:
The PUTZ is the part of the SCHMUCK that gets thrown away after (male) circumcision.
So, remember, being a schmuck is pretty bad, but being a putz.... even worse.
- petebot, on 01/16/2008, -1/+10This was pretty common for all nationalities when immigrating to America in the early 20th Century. For instance, my Ancestors changed their original Swedish name to Young. Other times, if the person checking you in to America couldn't pronounce your name, it was changed. Sad but true. Anyway, your implication that "the Jews" are trying to hide their true identity is completely false.
- consoneo, on 01/16/2008, -1/+10Schmuck
- SIBerger, on 01/16/2008, -1/+9Why is that ironic? Most of the Jews on the planet lived in Eastern Europe for the last two or three centuries before the Holocaust.
- sovereign3, on 01/16/2008, -1/+9And if you're the descendant of American slaves, you just borrowed your surname from your former master's family.
- lnf69, on 01/16/2008, -1/+8Yiddish is a combination of an old German dialect and Hebrew. Nothing ironic about that. It's like saying Spanish or Italian sound like Latin. DUH!
- lnf69, on 01/16/2008, -0/+6I can see what you are saying. But please remember that Yiddish is a complete culture onto itself. There are hundreds of years of rich history and art and music and drama, literature, all in Yiddish.
In English we have many words that are originally from other languages. For example facade, sauté, and many many more. They are now recognized as official members of the English language.
Many, if not all, languages can be traced to pre-existing languages, because of common or similar words. - JasonCox, on 01/16/2008, -4/+10Dugg for Glitch and Shmuck, I never knew they were Yiddish.
- raitchison, on 01/16/2008, -1/+7Wrong place for your comment, buried.
- theholotrope, on 01/16/2008, -5/+11Personal Favorites:
Oy vey and Shmuck. - modestmelody, on 01/16/2008, -4/+10These forty were just a lame, small sampling of the awesomeness that is Yiddush.
No other language is as fun, honestly. With phrases that tell people to "grow like an onion" and "don't bang me a tea kettle" (literal translation of hock demisch da chinik, when put together it means "Don't bother me,"), and with an entire subset of words useful solely in the context of complaining, there could not be a more hilarious language.
This barely scratches the surface of Yiddushims that put a huge smile on my face.
And of course it sounds German-- German and Hebrew make up the base of the language as Spanish and Hebrew lay at the foundation of Ladino, or the Creole languages with their base... - eviscero, on 01/16/2008, -13/+18I got some English words too
"You should have never tried to fight Israel in the first place cause they ended up kicking your dumb asses and taking your land."
What was it: 6 v 1 and the Arabs lost? HAHA -
Good Job Nubs
But nice selective history to support your political agenda....or did you fail history class? - lnf69, on 01/16/2008, -0/+5If you read the rest of his comments (PunjabiSchmuck) you will see that he is a flaming antisemitic. Please "untear" yourself and know that he is being as abusive as he can to Jews in these comments.
- ycohain, on 01/16/2008, -1/+6Putting mayonnaise on a pastrami sandwich is goyish. Putting mayonnaise on a pastrami sandwich on white bread is even more goyish.
LOL - lnf69, on 01/16/2008, -1/+5Yiddish is a complete culture onto itself. There are hundreds of years of rich history and art and music and drama, literature, all in Yiddish.
- cogitocogito, on 01/16/2008, -1/+5If you want to call things like eating pastrami with mustard on rye bread "Jewish", go ahead. Somehow, I don't think that's what you had in mind though.
(By the way, the word 'goy' is direct from Hebrew and just means 'non-Jew'. It's not at all pejorative (there are different slang pejorative words in Yiddish, just as there are in all languages). - jsmu, on 01/16/2008, -0/+4Oh, since you don't know anyone who speaks LATIN, you don't need to know any words of that either?
Putz. - Blades1, on 01/16/2008, -0/+4That post missed "nebbish": (n) An innocuous, ineffectual, weak, helpless or hapless unfortunate."
- consonance, on 01/16/2008, -2/+6PRIMER ON THE JEWS--for the Education of the American people, every fact an established trurth.
FACTS:
Jews did 9/11.
Jews control the media.
Jews commonly put the blood of "gentiles" into their "Passover" "matzuhs," flat fry bread that will kill you if you are not a Jew.
Jews are more powerful than the Masons, Skull & Bones, Scientologists, and Republicans COMBINED.
Jon Stewart is the King of the Jews, having deposed the senile Larry King.
Mimes are Jews.
Jews hate Superman, Batman, and Nite Owl.
In Soviet Russia, the Jews are persecuted.
All Jews live in mansions on private islands near Bermuda.
/sarcasm - petebot, on 01/16/2008, -0/+4What Jewish influence are you talking about? Where do you live? Little Israel?
- liquidjamm, on 01/16/2008, -0/+4What a great comment. That tea-kettle phrase you mentioned reminded my of my birthplace http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odessa and made me proud that I spent there 16 years of my life.
Kudos! - briarmoss, on 01/16/2008, -0/+4You're wrong. None of those are swear words. "drek" just means worthless crap and is nowhere near as strong as "*****". Mamzer does indeed mean bastard, but not in the derogatory sense at all. A better translation would be "illegitimate child". The source for it is Aramaic and it is used in the talmud (Jewish oral law) as a halachic (law) definition of someone. so calling someone a mamzer really isn't that big a deal, and ku drek and drek cup just mean bull crap or crap head.
- modestmelody, on 01/16/2008, -0/+4You're pronouncing it wrong than. Baleboste is pretty common.
- falafelkiosken, on 01/16/2008, -0/+4I've always found Yiddish interesting. Because it's similiar with German I can get a clue about texts written in it
- Character0, on 01/16/2008, -1/+5Maybe it is because certain people are just being offensive.
- firewens, on 01/16/2008, -1/+4This was a great article! I am really surprised at how many words I already knew!
- beadgc23, on 01/16/2008, -1/+4You're not wrong - and I'm not trying to be contentious! When I moved to NYC after seven years in Germany and Switzerland I was amazed at how many Yiddish words I could recognize.
- jeuhrn, on 01/16/2008, -0/+3That's a truth for all culture and languages.
Ombudsman is the only word (to my knowledge), you've borrowed from modern Norwegian, I'd say the rate of other languages borrowing from English is far greater than vice-versa, mostly because of technology.
But because you are so removed from your Germanic language-roots I'd see why you'd feel the need to explain this to me, but remember that today is Wednesday/Wodans day or Odins day, tomorrow will be Thors day, and the day after that will be Freyas day.
I don't see a Yiddish Appreciation Society popping up outside of New York City anytime soon though. :P - pAq6Swad, on 09/16/2008, -0/+3David Levinson: Must go faster.
Julius Levinson: If I had known I was gonna meet the president I would've worn a tie. Look at me, I look like a schlemiel.
-Independence Day, Jeff Goldblum and Judd Hirsch - jaythree9, on 01/16/2008, -4/+7your comment sickens me.
- jsmu, on 01/16/2008, -0/+3But you forgot...
Fags are Jews.
Jews hate patriots.
Jews prefer the blood of goy BABIES for the Passover matzohs (makes them more tender).
All Jews have mansions on private islands near Bermuda but they also have penthouses on Park Avenue. - chownrus, on 01/17/2008, -0/+3In other words, calling someone a "smuck" makes you sound like a schmuck.
- SIBerger, on 01/16/2008, -5/+8Jews have been in this country for only 50 years?
That's so funny. I was under the impression that many 18th century American colonies had large Jewish populations... Philadelphia, Charleston, Savannah was 30% populated by Jews early on in its existence.
But you're right, we probably all landed here on one big boat during WWII. - raitchison, on 01/16/2008, -2/+5You may dislike that different cultures are starting to become intertwined, but so do some Jews, who view the same trend as secularization. In any case, it's extremely unlikely that life in the U.S. will ever become remotely like life in Israel, it's FAR more likely that Judaism will become assimilated into American secular/Christian society and essentially cease to exist.
- davidlow, on 01/16/2008, -0/+3Also missing:
Nebbish [neb ish] -noun
A person who, upon entering a room, gives the impression that someone has just left. - jsmu, on 01/16/2008, -1/+4Your xenophobic, hate-filled screeds belong in some fanatic forum, not here.
Please take yourself away. LOL - mikehill33, on 01/16/2008, -2/+5valuable stuff as I date a Jewish woman!
- cheesejaguar, on 01/16/2008, -1/+4Look, I'm Jewish and I want everyone to acknowledge that raitchison doesn't know what he is talking about.
- lnf69, on 01/16/2008, -0/+3Your antisemitism is showing you for the stinking pig that you are!
- jeuhrn, on 01/16/2008, -1/+3I did not know that, we don't have many jews in Norway.
Also I don't see the point in making a list of Yiddish words and including "mentsh" when it's just the german Mensch with a bit of creative spelling. - simmonsdd, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2So. What if you're goyim?
- ubuwalker31, on 01/16/2008, -1/+3When someone who is Jewish calls something "goyish" pejoratively, it is usually in reference to something regarding a cultural taboo or nuance - such as eating pork, or white bread with pastrami. When someone says "jewish" pejoratively, it is being used as a racist slur, usually. At least in my experience, although, I've heard the term "goy" used very nastily before as well.
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