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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: Questions about the Yiddish "Shm... thing" garygnu #205643 04/28/12 02:27 AM Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 724 Avy old hand Avy old hand Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 724 I just read this sher (couplet) on twitter and would like to post it here. "Jis din se tum roothe mujhse roothe roothe hain, Chaadar-vaadar, takiye-vakiye, bistar-vistar sab." Translation keeping cuteness of the sher intact is tough, but here goes: "Since the day you stopped speaking to me all of these also stopped speaking: All the sheets-veets, the pillows-villows, the mattresses-vatresses." - sher attributed to rahat indori/dost rehman. PS: sorry for the mediocre translation. I could not translate "roothe roothe mujhse hain" which is reduplication to denote extent and quantity. In english "upset upset" is not proper usage. Pillows-villows works as tranlsation because even in Urdu/Hindi it is scatological. Last edited by Avy; 04/28/12 03:07 AM. Reason: Typos, translations, transgressions Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Questions about the Yiddish "Shm... thing" basemetal 04/27/12 01:14 PM Re: Questions about the Yiddish "Shm... thing" zmjezhd 04/27/12 03:09 PM Re: Questions about the Yiddish "Shm... thing" basemetal 04/27/12 08:35 PM Re: Questions about the Yiddish "Shm... thing" Avy 04/27/12 03:26 PM Re: Questions about the Yiddish "Shm... thing" garygnu 04/28/12 12:06 AM Re: Questions about the Yiddish "Shm... thing" Avy 04/28/12 02:27 AM Re: Questions about the Yiddish "Shm... thing" BranShea 04/28/12 11:13 AM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,665 Members9,187 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Karin, JeffMackwood, artguitar, Jim_W, Rdbuffalo 9,187 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 117 guests, and 2 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 32 A C Bowden 16 LukeJavan8 3 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,767 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,936 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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