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The Yiddish language is dying.

 

Oy Gevalt!

 

 

Discuss.......

My favorite language in the entire world. You don't have to know the definition of whats being said to know what it means! My friend, whose father went to a Yeshiva, and I always carry some inside jokes in Yiddish, he having the greater grasp of the language then I.

 

 

Now what is more of the question is what is a Schmeckl? :mischief

Now what is more of the question is what is a Schmeckl? mischief.gif

 

 

A small schmuck- not that Jewish men know the meaning of this phrase.......

 

 

My people are well endowed.

Now what is more of the question is what is a Schmeckl? mischief.gif

 

 

A small schmuck- not that Jewish men know the meaning of this phrase.......

 

 

My people are well endowed.

I'm used to calling people schmuck and schmoe all the time. Atleast now I have an idea about what they really mean :mischief

Das is a schmuck.

Back home in Boston (OK, a 'burb called Newton), we had neighbors who were wacko Catholics...weren't too happy that JEWS were living next door (confirmed by friends of mine who were Catholic and had to go to the CCD classes they taught...they told me in school; they didn't dare tell me while the wackos were around). To piss them off, my mother would talk to our dog in Yiddish...drove them nuts :evil

 

Of course, the punch line now is that my wife's maiden name begins with O'C

 

Getting back to the subject line..

 

Bush (W or The Jebmeister)

 

Huizenga

 

Steinbrenner (in his case, momzer can definitely apply)

 

Jack Thompson

 

Any FCC Commissioner

 

Limbaugh

 

Michael Savage (Jews like him could make me become atheist..wait, I essentially am!)

 

My list of schmucks is endless...

penis.

 

 

 

And I know some yiddish words, but I've never actually heard someone speak Yiddish as a language.

 

Schmata, putz, oy vey, oy gevalt, verklempt (sp)

penis.

 

 

 

And I know some yiddish words, but I've never actually heard someone speak Yiddish as a language.

 

Schmata, putz, oy vey, oy gevalt, verklempt (sp)

 

 

 

My mom and her sister used to carry on conversations when they didn't want us kids to know what they were talking about. There's a guy at my school who is fluent.

There's so many facacta words

There's so many facacta words

 

 

You mean verkockte words....

Hmm why did I think it's facacta. Although I've heard it said many times, and I've seen it written a few times but never knew if it was written right.

I've grown up surrounded by Jews, so I inevitably end up using some Yiddish in certain situations.

My wife is a Irish shikse from Long Island (we're a reversal...I'm the Jewish kid from Boston; she's the Irish girl from LI) but she looks more Jewish than me...she grew up with Jews. When my mother first met her, she didn't believe she wasn't Jewish

 

She knows a few words...comes in handy when cussing at a redneck who can't drive...

There's so many facacta words

 

 

You mean verkockte words....

 

Both spellings are correct.

 

Since the origins of Yiddish are partly Hebrew and Hebrew has it's own alphabetical characters, it's all transliterated anyway.

 

I've seen lots of different ways of writing some Yiddish words.

 

 

Same thing goes for Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and any other language that doesn't use the Latin or Roman alphabet symbols.

 

It's a whole megillah anyway.........