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amother
Poinsettia
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 Fri, Feb 09 2024, 11:16 am
| dankbar wrote: | It's supposed to make you laugh not angry.
It's chodesh adar, cheer up |
I'm not angry:)
I understood this thread to be about words that don't have a translation in English because the translation just doesn't cut it, not about finding convoluted ways to translate things that can easily be translated
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dankbar
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Fri, Feb 09 2024, 11:24 am
Takka.
It could be in affirmative, yes, or apparently.
But when you say takka vegen dem, it's more like davka.
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dankbar
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Fri, Feb 09 2024, 11:45 am
When gelungen is a verb?
S'is gelungen.....the shtikel, the cake, the performance!
Areingerikkt....er hut Mir du areingerikkt a.....
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amother
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Fri, Feb 09 2024, 11:53 am
I have that with my therapist.....we converse in English......my first language is yiddish. She understands basic yiddish words.....my brain think in Yiddish.....even if I'm a fluent English speaker and use English to communicate with others.....sometimes a good yiddish word, expression, is hard to translate in English, it loses its taam. Although I might ultimately find a word or explain what I mean in longer length....but it's not the same.....certain words just can't be replaced and no other word will do it.
Although she is frum so Jewish lingo she knows, but I am chassidish, and she is not. Certain lingo, nuances, concepts, societal norms, I need to elaborate on.
She doesn't live in my community either.
She is a combo of litvish, chabbad, and haymish.
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shaqued_almond
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Fri, Feb 09 2024, 12:27 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  |
The idea that there are no swear words in Yiddish is hilarious. It's filled with swear words lol. Alte koker literally means "old sh*tter"
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shaqued_almond
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Fri, Feb 09 2024, 12:33 pm
| amother Cognac wrote: | Important is vichtig
It’s important you be home on time so I don’t have a nervous break down from the kids kvetching (because miraculously they’re all angels the second you turn the handle…)
The question you have is reverse- how to you say chashuv in English, which like someone said above can be esteemed. An esteemed rabbi, a chashuvia rabbi. (Or he can just be a vichtig macher  ) |
VIP stands for very important person
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amother
Poinsettia
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Fri, Feb 09 2024, 5:08 pm
| dankbar wrote: | When gelungen is a verb?
S'is gelungen.....the shtikel, the cake, the performance!
Areingerikkt....er hut Mir du areingerikkt a..... |
I would say it worked out/succeeded/was a smashing success
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amother
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Sat, Feb 10 2024, 7:45 pm
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bflower
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Sat, Feb 10 2024, 10:09 pm
Negel vasser- nail water? also tepel-wash cup?
When I went with my sister to buy for after her chassunah to a non jewish shop I was just lost for words...
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amother
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Sat, Feb 10 2024, 10:29 pm
| bflower wrote: | Negel vasser- nail water? also tepel-wash cup?
When I went with my sister to buy for after her chassunah to a non jewish shop I was just lost for words... |
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amother
Pistachio
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Wed, Feb 14 2024, 12:58 pm
Hey this is a a good one. Anyone?
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amother
Cappuccino
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Wed, Feb 14 2024, 1:30 pm
| dankbar wrote: | Shtisim/shtissim in lukshen
Bal habuss |
Baloni macaroni
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amother
Lavender
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Wed, Feb 14 2024, 1:39 pm
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Child farkelempt (not sure spelling)her finger
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amother
Antiquewhite
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Sat, Feb 17 2024, 11:15 pm
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amother
Rainbow
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Sat, Feb 17 2024, 11:26 pm
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