Glossary for the heimshly challenged

Maya

Thu, Aug 07 2008, 4:26 pm

yy wrote:

could of
should of
would of

aaaahhhhhh!!!!! Shaking

This is what I wanted to write. It's unbelievable how many people make this mistake. You'd think they didn't go to school past the fourth grade.

GAMZu

Thu, Aug 07 2008, 6:34 pm

Maya wrote:

yy wrote:

could of
should of
would of

aaaahhhhhh!!!!! Shaking

This is what I wanted to write. It's unbelievable how many people make this mistake. You'd think they didn't go to school past the fourth grade.

Yes, yes. I cringe in embarrassment for the poster every time I read something like that.

leomom

Thu, Aug 07 2008, 9:35 pm

Motek wrote:

"Do you have any pink socks?"

"What type do you want?"

""Such a ..." (pointing)

Now THAT'S just plain WRONG!

Motek

Fri, Aug 08 2008, 7:23 pm

it's yeshivish to say:

"to use out" as in "to use out your potential" (comes from the Yiddish, oisnutzin)

mommalah

Sat, Aug 09 2008, 10:42 pm

From an Uncle Moshe CD:

"If you're happy and you know it, GIVE a jump"
What in the world?

"If you're happy and you know it, STAMP your feet"
huh??

My kids love this CD, but I cringe every time I have to turn it on.

Motek

Sun, Aug 10 2008, 2:10 pm

mommalah wrote:

I googled the lyrics and here it also says "stamp your feet":
http://www.songsforteaching.co.....y.htm

what do you want instead, "stomp"?

as for "give a jump", yes, that sounds heimish but what do you think about "let's give him a hand"?

Motek

Sun, Aug 10 2008, 2:17 pm

more yeshivish/heimish expressions:

"to learn out"

example: Rashi learns out from this word that ....

"speak out"

example: I like Rabbi X because he speaks out a lot of meforshim

to "speak a shidduch" which means to suggest a shidduch (from the Yiddish "redt a shidduch)

"a good boy" - not referring to a 3 year old but a description someone might give when asked about someone for a shidduch. If he's "good" it means he learns and does the right thing.

"a learner" or "learning boy"
"working boy"

a learner is a bachur who sits and learns and wants to sit and learn (used in shidduchim and describes a learning boy vs. a working boy)

freidasima

Sun, Aug 10 2008, 2:17 pm

Stamp your feet isn't necessarily Jewish, it's general american shortcut english.

Give a jump is pushing it though...

cassandra

Sun, Aug 10 2008, 2:22 pm

"Stamp your feet" gets 155,000 google hits, "stomp your feet" only 132,000. Sorry mommalah.

As for "give a jump" I will give Uncle Moishe the benefit of the doubt and say that they needed to add extra words or else the song wouldn't flow.

Motek

Sun, Aug 10 2008, 2:33 pm

"she didnt return me the headphones" - sounds like Jewish syntax to me

"he didn't either like it" - sticking "either" in the middle of the phrase seems to be heimish too

freidasima

Sun, Aug 10 2008, 2:35 pm

"Heimish"???!

Ignorant of English grammar!!!

My grandmother, who came to America at 14, used to laugh at her aunts (who came to America at 21) for still talking like that after a few years there. The young immigrants used to pride themselves that they tried to "talk like americans"...

Today american born Yidden are trying to talk like the greenhorns of the last century.

My Babbeh must be turning over in her kever hearing this from above...

cassandra

Sun, Aug 10 2008, 2:39 pm

freidasima wrote:

My great grandmother was born in America in a Yiddish speaking home, but you'd never know. She did not betray any hint of an accent or anything, and even though she and my great-grandfather were fluent they never spoke it at home. My grandmother does not know one word of Yiddish.

chaylizi

Sun, Aug 10 2008, 2:53 pm

when I went to sem in yerushalayim- I noticed the english speaking kids added the word "even" to any sentence they could fit it into. I was told it's very common there.

mommalah

Sun, Aug 10 2008, 5:48 pm

Motek wrote:

mommalah wrote:

Yes, STOMP! Stamp your feet doesn't make any sense!
I don't think the term "let's give him a hand " is heimishe at all.

cassandra

Sun, Aug 10 2008, 6:02 pm

Mommalah, see my post. You are incorrect, "stamp your feet" is the more commonly used phrase, at least according to Google.

"Stamp" is a synonym for stomp, tread, crush, step on. It makes perfect sense.

Gsanmb

Sun, Aug 10 2008, 10:24 pm

Or, "give over" as in "He will give over the vort he learned last night."

Not good grammar.

By the way, what does "taka" mean? (Is it Hebrew or Yiddish? Does it mean something like davka?)

sarahd

Mon, Aug 11 2008, 6:39 am

Comes from Russian/Ukrainian.

Did I mention "write it over" instead of rewrite it and "copy over" instead of just copy? Two of my mother's pet grammar peeves.