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From: Janet Yang
Date: Tue Nov 11 22:56:48 2003
 
     
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    This is not PG-rated. 

    You're familiar with the word "schmuck", right? And its literal
    meaning in Yiddish? 

    I was telling a Jewish friend about the goldsmith Elisabeth Treskow.
    "Some of her work is at the Schmuckmuseum in Pforzheim." Then I
    digressed: "'Schmuck'--what a terrible name for a museum!" 

    "It's not what you think," he said. "The German work schmuck not the
    same as the Yiddish word. In German it means 'ornament'." 

    "But the Yiddish word obviously derives from German. How did its
    meaning change so completely?" 

    "The meaning *didn't* change. 'Ornament' is sometimes a euphemism
    for penis. The Yiddish translation is just a sly reference to the
    male mindset. Sort of like the expression 'the family jewels'." 

    Okay, it doesn't qualify as a joke. But we found some humor in it. 

Janet



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