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using German word ought to get spelling right
A short google confirmed my suspicion that the word here is not the German one with mm and a sexual connotation, but actually a yiddish variant with a different meaning:
"A few years ago a couple of women in my office asked me if I knew what the word verklempt meant. I didn’t. They asked because some character on a television show called Saturday Night Live used it all the time. People always think I know the weirdest things. I looked up the word in a German dictionary and they said it was a Yiddish word meaning closed in, as though the pressure of the world was proving too much with which to cope. "
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted shoddificated writing? tsuwm 05/08/03 09:12 PM Re: shoddificated writing? Buffalo Shrdlu 05/08/03 09:28 PM Where'd you get this from? AnnaStrophic 05/08/03 09:37 PM Re: Where'd you get this from? WhitmanO'Neill 05/08/03 09:43 PM Re: Where'd you get this from? tsuwm 05/09/03 04:24 AM Re: Where'd you get this from? Capfka 05/09/03 06:25 AM Re: shoddificated writing? wwh 05/08/03 09:40 PM Re: shoddificated writing? wsieber 05/09/03 10:38 AM Uniformity rules musick 05/09/03 05:41 PM
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