"yeah, yeah" again (another version)

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Sat Jul 21 16:25:14 UTC 2012


Garson O'Toole wrote, quoting from an MIT Press book:
>the philosopher Sidney Morgenbesser, shout from the back of the room
>in rich Yiddish: "Yeah, yeah?"

What is the rich Yiddish?  I want to employ it when appropriate, with
varying intonations as appropriate.

Joel

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