#yinglish

[gay-jewish-bucky]

tumblrisms: low-effort yinglish edition

bestie = besteleh or bestileh besties = bestelach or bestilach

worstie = worsteleh or worstileh worsties = worstelach or worstilach

mutual = mutuleh or mutualeh mutuals (multiple) = mutulach or mutualach

blorbo = blorbeleh or blorboleh blorbos (multiple) = blorbelach or blorbolach

[greco-roman-jewess]

Does anyone have information on yinglish or Yiddish American English as a dialect?

A lot of what I’m finding is listed of Yiddish lone words.

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

......I laughed.

[qupritsuvwix]

Once upon a time, a Yiddish-ish 'Mikado' starred Danny Kaye, Jerome Robbins and Judy Garland

Though no recordings exist of the legendary 'Yinglish Mikado,' traces of the Tamiment Playhouse production remain.

[power-chords]

The more you know…!

[d1nosorcerer]

in which I kvetch about underuse of the term "kvetch"

why use the word that, uh, starts with B and rhymes with "itching" when you could just say "kvetching" instead. think about it. Kvetching has the same meaning (complaining in an excessive and irritating manner) but without any sexist connotations, and it sounds similar enough that one can easily substitute them. Also, you can get away with saying it in front of kids. The benefits are obvious.

another day, another win for Yiddish, thank you for coming to my TED Talk

[ouroboros8ontology]

Unlike Katz, Sherman decided that there was a way to use English to respond to the general culture’s suppression of Jewishness. He made Jewish humor from the educated city kid’s English that became the currency of Jewish American literature. This also constituted a way of sounding Jewish, an “aural out of Jewish difference” that Kun did not consider in his assessment of Sherman. In Jewish-American Stories, Irving Howe made this style of English—English that involved a “yoking of opposites, gutter vividness with university refinement” that represented “the effort to give literary scale to the speech of immigrant streets”—an important criterion of a story’s Jewishness. The effort to rework English for Jewish purposes amounted to the creation of “a new language, an English imbued with Jewish-American cadence and tone.

Mark Cohen, My Fair Sadie: Allan Sherman and a Paradox of American Jewish Culture

[ask-jumblr]

Forgive my ignorance but like in some other languages can Yiddish terms on endearment meant for people be used on animals? Like you can call an animal sweetie or call it a baby. Could you call an animal bubelah or would this be strange? Are there Yiddish words I can use instead? Asking for fiction. The idea would be someone referring to the small animal that they see on their deck every morning while they have coffee.

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