Hebonics

@Roberta,

Oy veh.

Life. Don't talk to me about life.

Life is just one damn thing after another, that's what it is.

Until it isn't.

And there you aren't.

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@dlowan,

Don't start in with the aren't.

I don't have enough tsuris? I have to be thinking about aren't.

So far, I'm still are. So there.

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@Roberta,

Halleluljah!!!

So you are.

I was afraid you'd focus on the aren't.

Grrrrrr

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@dlowan,

I should worry about being dead? When you're dead, you don't got nuttin' to worry about. What kind of a life is that?

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@Roberta,

dead?

i should be so lucky...

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@Region Philbis,

Nothing but shlamazel, huh, bubbele?

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Soup down the neck and everything.

A waste of poifectly good borscht.

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@jespah,

The boychik spilled borscht? Oy, such a stain.

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@Roberta,

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7739968.stm

Quote:

Inspired by Yiddish

Yiddish - a language once spoken by more than 10 million Jews - had a profound effect on American culture in the first half of the 20th Century.

It originated in central and eastern Europe - and spread to the United States when thousand of immigrants arrived in New York.

Zalmen Mlotek is the Artistic Director of the city's last surviving professional Yiddish theatre - the Folksbiene.

With the help of his piano, he has been telling Radio 3's Dennis Marks how the language influenced jazz music - and the likes of George and Ira Gershwin.

n.b.

Quote:

Yiddish: A Struggle for Survival will be broadcast on Radio 3 at 2140 on Sunday 30 November.
It will be available for seven days on the BBC iPlayer.

Slideshow by Paul Kerley. Production date 27 November 2008.

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@ehBeth,

some wonderfully evocative images in that slideshow

and the music!

I'm definitely going to try to listen to the whole program.

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@ehBeth,

I couldn't figure out how to get it going. Fuhblungit as usual.

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@Roberta,

Leave the window open in the background while you're doing something else. The slideshow should load - the little play arrow should appear. I know. Should should. It took a while on my slow little dial-up system, but it got itself going.

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Ooooh, some fresh Hebonics posts! Surprised

This is one of my all time favourite A2K threads! Very funny!

Any possibility of coaxing some further Hebonic conversations out of you folk?

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@ehBeth,

Bethie, Zalmen is married to my first cousin. How's that for a small world?

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@ehBeth,

This I gotta try'n'listen to. Thnx for the heads-up, eh.

(I say 'try' because Hedwig Packard, my farschlugginer computer, is such a schlemiel I have no idea if I can access bbc-3 these days.)

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@mac11,

That is a wow of a small world!

Have you been to the Folksbiene? I'd really like to check it out on a trip to NYC.

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@ehBeth,

No, I've never been there. But I had a job offer a few years back!

They've been dark the last couple of times I've been in NY, but I'm sure I'll get there eventually.

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OH MY!

Fuhblungit " I LOVE THAT WORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That Bethie should talk with her hands already! HA! If I wag my finger it would be at the wrong person too!

Ohhhhh.. . Cav was here.

Boida " you had a blackout! What, you should need power to communicate?

Does Deb still have magnetic knees?

Zen Judaism.... Howie’s call...Montreal bagels...As Time Goes By... Lizzie's cafeteria...Merry and his Marlins... boips and grepses...chicken soup... Kitchenpete made me laugh...Jes’s Baba's potato knishes... Yahrtzeit glass....

These have gotta be my faves...

Roberta wrote:

A poysin could faint from embarrassment with this hebonics business. Foist I repeat myself. Then I don't know what plotz means. Next thing you know I'll find out that my family wasn't Jewish.

Phoenix32890 wrote:

You see what happened when I started writing on this farcockte thread? I can't stop!!! I think that my brain is turning into gefilte fish!

dlowan wrote:

Enough you haven't heard already? Again I must bump my gums together?

Roberta wrote:

Yes, I'm rambling. Sometimes a goil's gotta ramble. So shoot me. A person can't ramble? This is a tough crowd.

The waves roll in, the waves roll out.... that oughta be a sig line!

I LOVE THIS THREAD!!!!!!!! Razz

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Oh! Oh! Me, too!

I don't know how I missed this thread for so long, but I've found it now!

I should have them examined, my eyes. Laughing

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I'm digging it to.

My mother asked me where I got the word shvitzing (sp?) from. i can't for the life of me figure out where the hebonics came from and why I use it so much - neither can she. Seems natural.

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