The English Thread

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He was also talking about
burech in yiddish & you didn't report him.

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Can i use the word 'Preposterous' as anohter word for Chutzpa

Why bother? Whatever word you will use just will not give the same message
I don't know about the UK but here in the USA it is perfectly good English
so ruled a federal Judge

Last term something novel occurred at the nation's highest court. A decision of the U.S. Supreme Court used the word "chutzpah" for the first time. The decision was written by Justice Antonin Scalia in National Endowment for the Arts v. Finley, and addressed the interaction between government funding and free speech. Chutzpah is a Yiddish word connoting brazenness. A federal court in the Northern District of Illinois noted in a decision a couple of years ago that chutzpah means shameless audacity; impudence; brass. Leo Rosten's The Joys of Yiddish defines chutzpah as a Yiddish idiom meaning "gall, brazen nerve, effrontery." But neither English translation can do the word justice; neither definition can fully capture the audacity simultaneously bordering on insult and humor which the word chutzpah connotes. As a federal district court in the District of D.C. noted in 1992 that chutzpah is "presumption-plus-arrogance such as no other word, and no other language can do justice to.''

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long live Yiddish!!! ..... I mean Lushon Hakodesh

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long live Yiddish!!! ..... I mean Lushon Hakodesh

I checked the concordance and could not find the word
חוצפה
in Tnach
is חוצפה
derived from an Aramaic root that is used in chazal.
so when we write Yiddish or Lushoin Hakoidesh we should spell
חוצפא מיט אן א נישט חוצפה

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Our English speaking members would certainly appreciate these

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Our English speaking members would certainly appreciate these

My first reaction was appreciate just aint the word but was at loss
so here you have the Thesaurus
and pick one

עטעטשמענטס

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The last one

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eureka

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how about
Well, it turns out that mad, besides for meaning "angry," can also mean "very," as in "mad hungry" or "mad happy," or even, as Nachy once told me, referring to a fast water-park slide, "mad good." Although I've never actually
...
THE KIRUV FILES

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Our English speaking members would certainly appreciate these

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זייער זייער גוט!! (חוץ די וואס האסט אויסגעמעקט...... דארט ווייסעך נישט!!)

אבער זיי זענען צוויי סארטען חכמ'לעך. א טייל איז "פאנס" א טייל איז "טוויסטערס".

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the bride one took me a white, but i finally got it

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the bride one took me a white, but i finally got it

Of course our Kallas get more than one dress
one for every night of Sheva Brochos
and a whole new wardrobe
זאלען זיי טראגען געזונטערהייט

[msp]

mumcha, very clever
thanks for bringing a smile to my face

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אז מען רעדט שוין פון "פאנס"...

Now 58% support legalizing marijuana in Gallup poll

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A new high!

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אז מען רעדט שוין פון "פאנס"...

Now 58% support legalizing marijuana in Gallup poll

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A new high!

In the real world we would say LOW
so low that it is subterranean

[msp]

well in california there is a group of women fighting to legalise cannabis

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For lack of a better place to post this

Rav Dovid Kaplan who teaches in Ohr Someach describes (In The Kiruv Files pub '03) the difficulties of beginning Gemara learners
besides learning a new way of reasoning they also have to learn how to read abbreviations and without punctuation
here is what a piece of
גמרא
looks like to them

a gy sd to his fllw wht ai yu dng on ths lnd frm pini ¡ bght ¡t

and cnsmd it Ing engh to mk a chzka hs a thf bt ¡ hv wtnss tht

yu advsd me to prchs it frm hm ¡ sd th scnd is esr thn th fist

sd rvu he hs tid hm th lw lke whm admn as ws tght ¡n a mshn

one tht cntnos on a fld and is sgnd on it as a wtnss admn sys

the scnd is esr the fist ¡s dffclt and thch”s hs lst hs rghta a”t

rbnn thr he dd an actn hr its spch pple wil smtms sy.

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I saw an infomercial where a shop-owner was bragging about his 'fast and sufficient service'.

In other news, today a boy in my class wrote 'chred' instead of 'treat' - obviously being used to pronouncing the 't' from treat like the 'ch' in chess.

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do you think the first two are appropriate

[msp]

a bit of "cheeky" double entendre
i see what you mean

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“I’M STARVING!”: A Rav commented: “After the events at the outset of last week’s Parsha--is this a phrase to be used by a Torah Jew--or by those who follow in the ways of Eisav
”

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בהמשך
נושא: איך זוך די נומבער פון... (קרעטשמע 411 סערוויס)

געהערט אמאל אז הרה"ק מהר"י ט"ב מסאטמאר האט געזאגט אז ביי ר' יחזקאל'ע מערץ זי"ע קען מען רואיג לייגן די ציגעל.

מ'זעהט טאקע דארט אינעם אוהל היפש אזעלכע ציגלען מיט נעמען אויפגעשריבן.

פון DEEP IN THE RUSSIAN NIGHT
זכרונות פון א רוסישען מסירת נפש איד

דער רשע האט ג'האט א ביטערע מפלה און די שול איז געבליבען נאך א משך זמן

עטעטשמענטס

[msp]

dear kikoyoin
this is absolutely awesome
such erliche yiden oivdey hashem kept us during the long golus!

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A Jew from Tel Aviv had a situation that required a special meeting with a prominent Rav
The meeting was set for 4:00 pm in Yerushalaim.The Rav but the Jew in question was late. The Rav therefore got up and left. At 4:15 pm. the Jew from Tel Aviv arrived and waited for a long time, until he finally returned home.
A fèw hours later, he telephoned The Rav and asked why he had not waited for him. “We agreed to meet at 4:00 pm. but you weren’t there,” replied the Gaon. The man apologized aying that it was difficult to arrive at the exact time when traveling from Tel Aviv to Yerushalaim, as the buses don’t always keep to the thir fixed schedule.
The Rav’s reply was simple and yet so pointedly true: “My friend. if you had left a half-hour earlier from Tel Aviv, you would have arrived in Yerushalaim at 3:45 pm, and you might have waited for 15 minutes. But that’s not what you did. You left later and thus arrived late, because you didn’t want to waste your time. Yet, why did you think that you could waste my time?”

Name deleted because of Kvod Adom Gadol a Gaon In Midos

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The Dubner Maggid as a young man was a frequent guest of the Vilna Gaon. On each visit, he would entertain the Gaon with a parable or insight on a variety of subjects. The Gaon once asked him why he didn’t collect and arrange his comments according to the Parshios of the Torah and publish them. The Maggid, as expected, replied with a parable. A wealthy man invited all the townspeople, including the poor people to his son’s wedding . Those who were well-to-do sat down and patiently waited for each course to be served. The poor, who did not know what to expect, grabbed whatever they could and ate quickly, while it was available. A Talmid Chochom, with his vast understanding of the Torah, can interpret the Torah in sequence. I a poor person, grab whatever I can, without order, and blurt it out

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