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This week has been like a homecoming for me!
I grew up in a Jewish neighborhood and, though not Jewish, I picked up a lot of Yiddish along the way. Once I moved away from the area, I realized that not everyone uses such colorful expressions and I still get strange looks when some words slip into my "everyday speak".
A fun book (and a quick read) that I keep on my bookshelf is "Drek!: The REAL Yiddish Your Bubbe Never Taught You" by Yetta Emmes (apologies if this book has already been mentioned). I find it keeps that part of my "borrowed culture" in shape.
American English | Yooper | with a dash of Yiddish
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Some words just from memory like my non jewish family used them.
Mesjokke = crazy or crazy about. 'De mazzel' (from mazzeltov)as a salute is still used on a large scale. Gochemerd or gochum for clever.
Not koosher for anything 'fishy'. Today's word came from polish and is transformed through jiddish to the regular english word slob?
It's a partial world language in a way.
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Hi QA, homecoming indeed. One more geek is always welcome.
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I saw somewhere that Streisand is doing a new movie about a Jewish girl who trains grizzlies: Yentl Ben.
TEd
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Wow! Puyallup is just down the road. And I know how to pronounce it.
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Puyallup is just down the road. And I know how to pronounce it. Just like it looks? 
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Quote:
Puyallup is just down the road. And I know how to pronounce it. Just like it looks? ;)
Pweelyup?
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See, I would have said
Pie - all - up
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jackie: poo-y'all-up 
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poo- y'all -up Bad tsuwm, bad, bad tsuwm...no laughing at our Southern members...the ladies are known to swoon at the slightest provocation. 
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