fuck this stupid baka life

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janemorris

do goyische english speakers even know how many words they use regularly are yiddish Do they even know

janemorris

there’s the obvious like mensch and mazel tov and bris and kosher but also chutzpah and klutz and dreck and kvetch and tchotchke and putz and schlock and SCHLONG! DO YOU GUYS KNOW THAT ONE OF THE FAMOUS TERMS FOR DICK IS YIDDISH! what about shmuck or schtick or GLITCH! GLITCH IS YIDDISH! DO YOU GUYS EVEN KNOW THAT BAGEL IS YIDDISH

janemorris

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well, no, they’re loanwords. english does it all the time with all kinds of languages. café (french), bazaar (persian), and kindergarten (german) are all loanwords. it’s not stealing, because languages aren’t really capable of the malice that implies. there’s also nothing wrong with using words from or learning new languages. what really gets my goat though is when gentiles mock the way yiddish sounds while using its words without even realizing it

once I was talking with a ta (who basically was the professor never met the 'real' one once) and used schlep so she pointed it out and it really highlighted how much yiddish english borrows language is. so fascinating and loan words are a portion I find especially so