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So not very very English
I'd say that schtick (shtik), schmuck (shmok) and putz (potz) are just as English as mousse, yacht, and borscht. A schlemazil is somebody back luck is always happening to. May be from shlim mazel, lit. 'bad luck' in Yiddish. Might not be.
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schtick (shtik), schmuck (shmok) and putz (potz) I never, EVER, hear those words in personal conversations. Provincial, yeah, I know.
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You never hear them in Louisville, Kentucky? Amazing!
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Maybe I should develop new friends...?
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Just watch television! Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hassenpfeffer Incorporated!
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I think I don't like longer words (unlike "try," "by," "cry" and the like) that only have "y" as the vowel: glyph, crypt, zyzygy. Ick.
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A schlemazil is somebody back luck is always happening to. May be from shlim mazel, lit.
I'd say you are right about them being English. I forgot the real meaning of this word. I didn't hear 'schlemiel' spoken since I left hometown Rotterdam.
I'm with Jackie for not liking words that start with a whole load of consonants.
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never, EVER, hear those words in personal conversations. Provincial, yeah, I know.
There is a whole nose-load of words I never hear in conversation, yet I know them. Snooty, yeah, I know, but they are in my lexicon.
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I'm with Jackie for not liking words that start with a whole load of consonants.
Yeah, but schmuck and schlemazel don't start with any more consonants than smack or slip? Sorry.
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They do,they do. You dont pronounce smuk and slemazel, do you?
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