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I've used the prefix schm-- with hundreds of different words in the same context, Max. I grew up by and around New York, so it was a common way of ridiculing a word or idea...just add that prefix. Attitude/schmattitude!; anger/schmanger!; wonderful/schmunderful!...wherever it would fit comfortably as that type of device. And I add the exclamation point because, for me, it was always an expression of exclamation!!!
The whys and wherefores, the linguistic origins (Yiddish or otherwise) I never explored...though I always supposed it was Yiddish.
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Max Quordlepleen 06/13/01 08:25 AM Re: Help! Schmelp of troy 06/13/01 12:31 PM Re: Help! Schmelp WhitmanO'Neill 06/14/01 05:14 AM Re: Help! Schmelp doc_comfort 06/14/01 05:48 AM Re: Help! Schmelp Faldage 06/14/01 11:04 AM Re: Help! Schmelp tsuwm 06/14/01 03:24 PM Re: Help! Schmelp inselpeter 06/16/01 03:23 PM Re: Help! Schmelp tsuwm 06/16/01 04:45 PM Re: Help! Schmelp NicholasW 06/18/01 10:36 AM Re: Help! Schmelp maverick 06/18/01 11:35 AM Re: Help! Schmelp Flatlander 02/13/02 04:11 PM Re: Help! Schmelp Keiva 02/13/02 04:25 PM Re: Help! Schmelp Capital Kiwi 02/17/02 09:32 AM Re: Help! Schmelp Keiva 02/17/02 11:30 AM
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