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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 7:15 pm
oisgearbeter mentsch
oisgebetten
paskunyak alternatively paskenudyak (they don't mean the same thing. A paskunyak is a judgmental person who thinks he knows everything. A paskunydyak is a first class jerk)
ah bitterah (it doesn't mean a embittered person-it means a difficult person who is to be avoided at all costs)
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imaima
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 7:15 pm
amother Catmint wrote: | Nachas. No word really expresses it, joy? Satisfaction? Proud? Nope. |
Contentment
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amother
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 7:20 pm
amother Daphne wrote: | My principal used to say that there’s no Yiddish word for “fun”, because a Chassidish Yid doesn’t do stuff just for fun.
(Hi school mates!) |
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 7:22 pm
amother Lightblue wrote: | oisgearbeter mentsch
oisgebetten
paskunyak alternatively paskenudyak (they don't mean the same thing. A paskunyak is a judgmental person who thinks he knows everything. A paskunydyak is a first class jerk)
ah bitterah (it doesn't mean a embittered person-it means a difficult person who is to be avoided at all costs) |
That’s Russian!
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amother
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 7:26 pm
amother Linen wrote: | pride is the closest word I could find
"may she be a source of pride" | Reposting. Because I think for all the nachas words, pride is still closest.
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amother
Linen
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 7:26 pm
It's not an issue. I just pointed out that there is no word that means זאט
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Trademark
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 7:28 pm
amother Linen wrote: | It's not an issue. I just pointed out that there is no word that means זאט |
Satiated
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amother
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 7:31 pm
amother Linen wrote: | It's not an issue. I just pointed out that there is no word that means זאט |
Of course there is
Full/satiated
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dankbar
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 7:33 pm
Ibergegeben
Devoted, dedicated, loyal, does it with the whole heart
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dankbar
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 7:36 pm
Durechgedringen can be both very deeply hurt
But also absorbed, instilled, permeated, even by osmosis let's say my mom's emunah peshutah is durechgedringen in meine beiner.
Or my zeides mesiras nefesh....
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dankbar
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 7:36 pm
How do you say yiras shmayim, mesiras nefesh
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dankbar
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 7:37 pm
Firt tish
Nemt kvittlech
Teilt brachos
Teilt shrayim
Poilt yeshuos
Last edited by dankbar on Thu, Feb 08 2024, 7:38 pm; edited 1 time in total
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amother
Skyblue
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 7:38 pm
Carries tables
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amother
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 7:39 pm
amother Puce wrote: | Also, "there's no swear words in yiddish" until I saw a chassidishe guy post an English swear word, written in yiddish on a whatsapp status once....had to laugh
The funniest part was that I was reading it over and over trying to figure out the translation, until it finally clicked |
Uh... there are PLENTY Yiddish swear words...
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dankbar
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 7:40 pm
Zemels jokes, moves tables, oh so he is a moving rabbi, works for the moving company to transfer furniture
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amother
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 7:42 pm
dankbar wrote: | Zemels jokes, moves tables, oh so he is a moving rabbi, works for the moving company to transfer furniture |
האק אין טשייניק
Knock in teapot
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Thu, Feb 08 2024, 7:44 pm
amother Leaf wrote: | Uh... there are PLENTY Yiddish swear words... |
Yup just like English speakers don't use swear words we don't use them.
But because Yiddish is mostly used only in the frum community nowadays we don't know them.
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