Re: new word

[Alex J. Lubet <lubet001...>]

Responding to the message of <3B225F63(dot)9264A7DF (at) yorku(dot)ca>
from jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org:
> 
> Hi, just thought I'd share an appealing new multi-syllabic word with
> you, coined only yesterday by a colleague (that's the music connection).
> I'd told her I was beginning to suspect myself of being a curmudgeon,
> and she responded by defending, for certain occasions (also the music
> connection):
> 
> curmudgeonlikhkeit.
> 
> Enjoy!  Judith
> 
I suspect there's at least one Yiddish synonym out there already.  However, in 
keeping with recent threads, the fact that the etymology of this new word 
indicates foreign influence doesn't make it any less Jewish.  Mit a bisl mazl 
we'll never hear it in the lyrics of one of those 'Jewish' dance numbers that 
evangelicals use to proselytize.

It really rolls off the tongue easily!



Alex Lubet, Ph. D.
Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music
Adjunct Professor of American and Jewish Studies
University of Minnesota
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Minneapolis, MN 55455
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