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To: combjelly who wrote (487773)6/14/2009 4:53:57 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1586311
 
"putz is yiddush for penis."

What word in Yiddish isn't? Just about every Yiddish word that can be roughly translated as "foolish person", and there are a lot of them, also means 'penis'. What is up with that? Do y'all really need a couple of dozen words for penis?

Good point.

My father is of Texas German descent.

His mother was German and his father Texan?



To: combjelly who wrote (487773)6/14/2009 4:56:56 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1586311
 
So he grew up speaking English, German and Czech.

Why Czech?

And they never spoke Yiddish in the store while he was there again.

That's funny.....they thought they were being clever.

My wife was constantly amazed at the number of German words that are used in the US. A lot of them are from Yiddish, although not all.

I've probably said this before but did you know that up until recently the largest ethnic group in the US was German.....maybe even today.


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