Re: mistaken yinglish (yinglish II), and... well... stuff.

[Marvin <physchem...>]

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From: "Yakov Chodosh" <ync8 (at) softhome(dot)net>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 7:18 PM
Subject: mistaken yinglish (yinglish II), and... well... stuff.



Hello folks.
Somewhat off-topic: I have a side tangent based on the current Yinglish
thread that might sound completely insane, but: Did anyone else here grow up
using words that they THOUGHT were Yiddish, but in fact were not? I can't
think of all of them right now, but one is "decrepit." I always figured it
was an imported word until tenth grade when we had to look it up in the
dictionary. I know I have a lot more, but I can't think of them right now.

Completely off-topic: Everyone go read
http://www.audiogalaxy.com/articles?&a=237 or -- as usual -- I breaka you
face.

Slight rescuing of that link: It's about dirty (i.e. sexy) old blues
songs... these are really filthy songs. "I got nipples on my titties as big
as the end of my thumbs / I got something between my legs 'll make a dead
man come..." That's just the first two lines of "Shave 'Em Dry II" (which
seems, for some reason, to have surprising appeal to people who'd never
listen to old blues otherwise). Anyway... how about dirty songs in Yiddish?
Are there a lot? Has anyone recorded any? I want to learn some :)
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Sexual context in jazz has been the norm, ever since jazz developed in New
Orleans bawdy houses.  It just isn't always spelled out as clearly as in the
examples in the Web site cited by Jakov.  For example, there is the classic
about "... jelly roll killed my daddy, and drove my mammy stone blind."  The
original audience knew what it was about.

To say nothing of the original French fairy tales -- they weren't for
children. And it turns out that the Victorians weren't so prudish after all.

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