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Just Say Nu: Yiddish for Every Occasion (When English Just Won't Do) (P.S.)
Just Say Nu Yiddish for Every Occasion - When English Just Won't Do - P.S.
Author: Michael Wex
ISBN-13: 9780061657320
ISBN-10: 0061657328
Publication Date: 9/1/2008
Pages: 336
Edition: Rep Blg
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Publisher: Harper Perennial
Book Type: Paperback
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buzzby avatar reviewed Just Say Nu: Yiddish for Every Occasion (When English Just Won't Do) (P.S.) on + 6062 more book reviews
You may think me a khokhem be-layle, but I have trouble following all of the intricacies of his language explanations; he claims that we goyim use schmooze in just the opposite way it's meant to be used, but his explanation suggests to me it's the same. Perhaps it's because he's from the Southern Albertan offshoot of Canadian Hasidic tradition, or (as he says in the introduction) his book Born to Kvetch should really be read first.