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Report your use of Brokieisms in so-called "real life"
Front-Ranger:
There must be one for "sure enough" ?
An it's not, ya, you betcha'!!
loneleeb3:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on May 16, 2007, 02:07:29 pm ---There must be one for "sure enough" ?
An it's not, ya, you betcha'!!
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Funny! I used that today and didn't even think twice about it till now.
One of the sales guys asked me if his order would make it out today. I replied "Sure enough" ;D
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Penthesilea on May 16, 2007, 01:35:59 pm ---*smacks hand on forehead*
That's why I immediately understood Jeff's oy vey. It's oh weh in German. Guess I'm a bit slow-witted today ::).
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Sure enough! Because Yiddish is actually descended from Old and Middle High German (you can look it up).
All those wonderful "sch" words in Yiddish come from the German.
Among my people, the Pennsylvania Germans, Oi is as common an exclamation as it is in Yiddish (but note the different spelling). Oi anyhow would kinda be the Pennsylvania German equivalent of Sure enough!
--- Quote from: Scott on May 16, 2007, 01:38:54 pm ---Hey what a cool idea...let's re-write the script...Yiddish style...now that's funny...I don't care who ya are! :laugh:
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You mean like this, Scott? "You'll like workin' for Roy Taylor. He's a mensch." ;D
HerrKaiser:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on May 16, 2007, 02:29:26 pm ---
All those wonderful "sch" words in Yiddish come from the German.
Among my people, the Pennsylvania Germans, Oi is as common an exclamation as it is in Yiddish (but note the different spelling). Oi anyhow would kinda be the Pennsylvania German equivalent of Sure enough!
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that is correct; the reason Yiddish came from German is that German Lutherans issued baptismal documents to Jews in Spain during the Inquisition in order to save them from death. The Jews came to Germany and adopted a type of German sub language. Their new names were in general two words put together--that's why many German names such as Goldstein, Eckblatt, etc tend to be Jewish.
and the so-called Pennsylvania Dutch is really Pennsylvania Deutsch or translated Pennsylvania German.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: HerrKaiser on May 16, 2007, 02:51:55 pm ---
that's why many German names such as Goldstein, Eckblatt, etc tend to be Jewish.
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Or you might turn that around and say that's why many Jewish surnames are so Germanic. Likewise, surnames that in places like Brooklyn or Queens might be Jewish--like Miller--will be Lutheran or Reformed Protestant in Central Pennsylvania.
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