Friday, July 15, 2011

Yiddish It's Not for Blithering Idiots…


So not a Yid!
It is pronounced "Hoot" (same vowel sound as book) "Spah".

It's not pronounced chute-spa!

I don't expect her to get the guttural "h", she is, after all a gentile, a Minnesotan, and a Lutheran,* so she has at best limited experience in that consonant, but seriously, don't speak Yiddish unless you understand Yiddish.

I'd call her a schmuck, but a schmuck has a head.

*Specifically, the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS), which is arguably the most antisemitic and anti-Catholic Lutheran sect in the united states.

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