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Re: "Shagitz"?
- From: chakravorty bonnie jean <bchakrav...>
- Subject: Re: "Shagitz"?
- Date: Sun 30 Jul 1995 13.30 (GMT)
I agree with Lane on this one. Intonation and context are important clues to
whether shaygitz is being used as a pejorative term or a statement of fact.
(I read in one Yiddish dictionary that shaygitz was synonomous with handsome)
as in "a shagitz punim". So when I say, "Patrick Swayze is a good looking
shagitz, I am communicating two facts.
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