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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Yiddish dictionary #68735 05/04/2002 4:08 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 TEd stumped me until I found this: http://chutzpah.homestead.com/files/dictionary.html Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Yiddish dictionary #68736 05/04/2002 5:13 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 11,088 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 11,088 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA ...better than no information at all, definitely, but if you don't know how to pronounce/recgonize the words beforehand its usefulness is limited. Transliteration into English can be a very tricky proposition, fraught with ambiguity. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Yiddish dictionary #68737 05/04/2002 6:12 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Dear wofahulicodoc: so what does the moyel do with the prepuce? Don't tell me 'feed it to the cat'. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Where the tips go #68738 05/05/2002 12:08 AM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC I had a friend who was a moyel who saved the tips, and his neighbor, a taxidermist, took 5000 of them and turned them into a wallet. The moyel was incensed at this until the taxidermist told him to rub the wallet. It turned into an overnight case. TEd Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Yiddish dictionary #68739 05/05/2002 12:10 AM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC I'm also reminded of a man who was walking down a street in the Jewish section of town and saw a shop with a bunch of watches in the window. He went in and said to the proprietor, "How much will it cost to fix my watch." The man replied, "Oy, and how should I know? I'm a moyel." The customer, mystified, asked what all the watches were doing in the window. The guy behind the counter replied, "Oy, and vhat do you vhant I should put in my vindow?" TEd Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter 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 Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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