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Nouniness. God, that's awful. Now I'm sorry I asked. Perhaps you would prefer nounyismnessity?
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[quote=Hydra] Rather 'Nouncy'
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Nouniness. God, that's awful. Now I'm sorry I asked. Perhaps you would prefer nounyismnessity? : a verbal monstrosity Pray, flee it with utmost velocity I pronounce without piety That I prefer proprietyOr perhaps, nomenclaturosity
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Oh, you don't know how lucky you are to have 'nouniness'.
'zelfstandignaamwoordachtigheid' would be the shortest and most accurate way to define the same thing in my language and what would rhyme to that?
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There's a great interjection of exasperation in Rhenish German: o wei o wei....
I suppose that's connected to the Yiddish?
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I suppose that's connected to the Yiddish?
Seems probable. In Yiddish אױ װײ (oy vey), the second word, by itself, means 'woe, alas; pain, ache' which is related to German Weh, Latin væ.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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I've heard opinions from those whose opinions I would respect that the 'oy' is from Hebrew. Or at least supported by a Hebrew word that sounds the same and means the same. I know there's a known sound shift of German 'au' to Yiddish 'oy' and I've seen Charlie Brown say "Au Weie" in German.
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I've heard opinions from those whose opinions I would respect that the 'oy' is from Hebrew.
Hebrew אי לא ('y l'), (which as far as I can tell was vocalized /ʔi:lo:ʔ/), a hapax legomenon occurring at Ecclesiastes 4:10, is cited by some as the origin of Yiddish אױ (oy). The problem with that is the Yiddish is spelled in Yiddish orthography, whereas words of Hebrew/Aramaic origin are spelled in Hebrew orthography. Yiddish oy does correspond to German au (German Frau, Yiddish פרױ froy 'woman'), but it also corresponds to German o (German groß, Yiddish גרױס groys 'big') and eu (German Freude, Yiddish פרױד froyd 'joy' and the good doctor's name). I think it might be a folk etymology, but I'll ask some of my linguist buddies who speak Hebrew.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Oh wee! Oh wee!(pronounced: oh way!) is an interjection in every day Dutch spoken and written language. Could it not have come directly from Latin to German and Dutch and from there to Yiddish?
'Oh wee!Oh wee!' means: 'watch out! Here comes the bogerman!------
'Oh wee!Oh wee!'- He broke his leg!'
'Oh wee!Oh wee!'- The house is on fire!'
Any horror, pain or disaster.
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but don't forget the dyslexic rabbi.
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